BIG BILL

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

BIG BILL is a 1973 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1981, most recently in January 2020, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2020.

Records from 1981 to 2020. Most recent: inspection, 20 January 2020.

Built: 1973
Last inspected: 20 January 2020
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2020
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

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This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 6 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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 20 January 2020

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1981–2020)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1981 and 2020, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 1972–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

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

547800

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47500

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-47500

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it1108 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
1108 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), 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.

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Detail on this page

2 inspections, each with its date, unit and type; 3 vessels inspected with it, by name and date; 1 casualty investigation, with date and classification; the documentation record, as PSIX holds it. The counts in the summary above are the same counts, and they are free.

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Vessel history report

A report is not offered for this hull. It has no inspection history to report. A report is offered only when the record carries six or more inspections, a deficiency, or an operational control. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

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.

LADI Towing Vessel · MISLE 146711 · 20 January 2020 · activity 6895066 ANDREW F KOCH Towing Vessel · MISLE 202899 · 20 January 2020 · activity 6895066 AEP 3218 Freight Barge · MISLE 420431 · 20 January 2020 · activity 6895066

Inspection history · 2

20 January 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6895066

15 May 1981 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 990606

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 · 1

20 January 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 6895066

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.