OC 257

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

OC 257 is a 1979 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 18 inspections since 1981, most recently in September 1995.

Records from 1981 to 1995. Most recent: inspection, 9 September 1995.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 9 September 1995
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 18
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 31 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 9 September 1995

Recorded inspections18

…physical examinations10

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 13 calendar years (1981–1995)

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

606255

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50256

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-50256

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it1816 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
544 - Convention (Subpart B), 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 · 1

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.

THOMAS P Towing Vessel · MISLE 207519 · 30 October 1993 · activity 80158

Inspection history · 18

9 September 1995 Administrative

Administrative · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1188604

30 October 1993 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 80158

7 September 1993 COI Inspection · Hull Examination

Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1354453

23 August 1993 Damage Survey

Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 846174

16 June 1992 Administrative

Administrative · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 947593

18 February 1992 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 946563

22 March 1991 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MSO PORT ARTHUR · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1305931

19 April 1990 Examination of Repairs · Damage Survey

Physical examination · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 922665

24 January 1990 Hull Examination · COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 917491

31 October 1989 Administrative

Administrative · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 976207

20 December 1988 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1348227

25 July 1988 Administrative

Administrative · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1035268

30 December 1987 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1014814

11 September 1986 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1005876

16 July 1985 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 981644

30 October 1984 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 974818

28 July 1983 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1273428

31 July 1981 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1274134

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.

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.