ART 947B

Tank Barge · Barge class · Built 1990s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

ART 947B is a 1995 tank barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 32 inspections since 1995, most recently in January 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2016.

Records from 1995 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 17 January 2025.

Built: 1995
Last inspected: 17 January 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 32
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2013–2016
Inspected with: 17 other vessels

Coast Guard record current through 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Barge class in Maury's sources begin in 1972.

Inspection record

Last inspected 17 January 2025

Recorded inspections32

…physical examinations25

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 23 calendar years (1995–2025)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

1027693

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416356

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-416356

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it705 - Simplified, Gross Ton
705 - Simplified, Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1972 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 17

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

Inspection history · 32

17 January 2025 Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam · Examination of Repairs · Cargo Tank Internal · COI Inspection · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8064959

2 May 2022 Plan Review (Other than "T") · Damage Survey · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Peoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7442908

2 January 2020 MTSA Verification · COI Inspection · Examination of Repairs · Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6881827

8 October 2018 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6596091

8 February 2017 Administrative Inspection · MTSA Verification · Periodic Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6083832

12 March 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5832951

16 October 2015 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5763052

22 December 2014 Internal Structural Exam · MTSA Verification · Drydock Exam · COI Inspection · Cargo Tank Internal

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5040260

26 February 2014 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4859494

30 April 2012 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4298923

9 February 2010 Internal Structural Exam · MTSA Verification · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3676933

28 January 2009 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3401461

8 May 2008 Periodic Inspection · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Peoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3202641

2 May 2007 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2924102

29 September 2006 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2789874

19 April 2006 MTSA Verification · Administrative Inspection · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2628055

14 February 2005 COI Inspection · MTSA Verification · Hull Examination · Internal Structural Exam · Cargo Tank Internal

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2286808

2 February 2004 Periodic Inspection

Physical examination · MIDET WEST DETAIL · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1998944

30 December 2003 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · MIDET WEST DETAIL · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1984628

2 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1957749

7 February 2003 Periodic Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Cincinnati · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1741215

8 February 2002 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1484736

30 November 2000 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1462905

23 March 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 440261

14 January 2000 Re-Inspection · Hull Examination

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1372891

30 December 1998 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO LOUISVILLE · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1381428

8 July 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 474843

4 March 1998 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1447805

15 February 1998 Administrative

Administrative · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 776747

7 January 1997 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1451132

29 April 1996 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1447553

10 February 1995 Hull Examination · Initial Certification

Physical examination · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1172875

Deficiency record · 1

Documentation › Certificates/Documents › Certificate of Inspection

Issued 8 February 2017 Resolved

Certificate of Inspection not on board vessel as required by 46 CFR 31.05-5. Original current COI required to be on vessel prior to loading vessel.

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 8 February 2017
Resolved 14 February 2017
Resolution: Amended COI issued by Sector UMR provided to vessel rep.

Casualty record · 2

31 May 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 4616393

12 March 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 5832951

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.