WEEKS 298

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1990s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

WEEKS 298 is a 1996 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2002, most recently in October 2024, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2010 and 2024.

Records from 2002 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 1 October 2024.

Built: 1996
Last inspected: 1 October 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2010–2024
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

Identity

1040475

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437601

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-437601

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations1

…with no type recorded5

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2002–2024)

The 6 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

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.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)172.8 ft × 54.0 ft × 14.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 991 / net 297

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)172.8 ft × 54.0 ft × 14.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 991 / net 297

BuilderCONRAD INDUSTRIES, INC. · MORGAN CITY, LA, UNITED STATES · built 1996

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW YORK, NY

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 28 March 2026 · expires 30 April 2027

Service, as the file records itFreight Barge

Hull formbarge (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it991 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
297 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

One vessel history report for this hull — every record on this page in one dated, citable document — $300, on request.

Inspected as a tow unit · 3

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.

SEI911 Freight Barge · MISLE 391721 · 17 April 2021 · activity 7177820 ALEXANDRA Towing Vessel · MISLE 140943 · 10 February 2010 · activity 3896523 SEAN C O'KEEFE Freight Barge · MISLE 400751 · 10 February 2010 · activity 3896523

Inspection history · 6

1 October 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Savannah · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8028143

18 September 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Savannah · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7797869

11 May 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7194276

17 April 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7177820

10 February 2010 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3896523

3 June 2002 COI Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1625319

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 3

10 February 2010Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3896523

17 April 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 7177820

1 October 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8028143

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.