PIPER

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1940s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

PIPER is a 1943 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 1982, most recently in September 2007, along with 1 deficiency and 1 casualty investigation in 2007.

Records from 1982 to 2007. Most recent: inspection, 20 September 2007.

Built: 1943
Last inspected: 20 September 2007
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 10
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2007
Inspected with: 1 other vessel
Also recorded as: 1 other name

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 19 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 September 2007

Recorded inspections10

…physical examinations2

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded6

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 calendar years (1982–2007)

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

252051

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54023

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-54023

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)155.0 ft × 50.0 ft × 11.4 ft

Registered tonnagegross 783 / net 783

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderLANCASTER IRON WORKS · LANCASTER, PA, UNITED STATES · built 1943

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portBATON ROUGE, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 22 January 2026 · expires 28 February 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 it783 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
783 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), 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.

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.

DARLENE BISSO Towing Vessel · MISLE 302410 · 28 December 1999 · activity 47512

Inspection history · 10

20 September 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3065217

28 December 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 47512

31 August 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 173390

25 February 1988 Administrative

Administrative · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1332391

12 September 1986 Credit Drydock

Administrative · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1311611

3 December 1985 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1301140

9 July 1985 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 992859

21 May 1985 Examination of Repairs

Physical examination · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 986177

3 October 1984 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1284619

9 July 1982 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MIO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1271367

Deficiency record · 1

Unknown

Issued 12 September 1986 Resolved

INSTALLED BOILER AND CRANE ARE NOT TO BE PLACED IN OPERATION PRIOR TO THE INSPECTION OF SAME BY A U. S. COAST GUARD INSPECTOR.

Condition: Unknown
Due 12 September 1987
Resolved 18 May 2002
Resolution: MISLE Maintenance - Resolved all open deficiencies issued prior to 6/1/1997 where activity was closed and deficiency due date was past

Casualty record · 1

20 September 2007Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · 1 injured · activity 3065217

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.

Recorded names · 1

BIG EAGLE (2007). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.