B-253

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1960s · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Other hulls named B-253

B-253 is a 1968 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2003, most recently in February 2004, along with 1 operational control and 1 casualty investigation in 2004.

Records from 2003 to 2004. Most recent: inspection, 27 February 2004.

Built: 1968
Last inspected: 27 February 2004
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2004
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

Identity

516108

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97757

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-97757

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2003–2004)

The 3 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.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 22 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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

Tonnage as PSIX records it519 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
519 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of 6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.

Inspected as a tow unit · 2

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.

NORTHSTAR 130 Freight Barge · MISLE 97929 · 27 February 2004 · activity 2014482 BRANDON JOHN Towing Vessel · MISLE 610628 · 27 February 2004 · activity 2014482

Inspection history · 3

27 February 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO PHILADELPHIA · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 2014482

10 November 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 1945001

8 November 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 1968900

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

27 February 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2014482

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.