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What Maury does not do
Maury publishes what the US Coast Guard recorded about barges and
towing vessels, and nothing else. Here is what that rules out.
It does not score, rate or grade vessels
No page carries a score, a rating, a grade, a colour, or an opinion about any vessel's
condition or seaworthiness. Every figure on a vessel page is a count of records the Coast
Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A computed status was built once, tested against forty
years of records, and deleted, because it was wrong too often to publish.
Absence of a record is not evidence of compliance
A vessel with few inspections, or none, may simply not have been inspected, or may have been
inspected under a class this site does not cover. 56.1% of
inspection records carry no inspection type at all, three date ranges are missing because
the Coast Guard's export failed, and a hull absent from the record for years is a hull
absent from the record. Nothing more is implied.
A missing resolution date is not an open deficiency
“No resolution recorded” means the record holds no resolution date. Many
deficiencies are corrected on the spot and never written up again. Maury shows the blank
and does not fill it either way. The same holds for an operational control with no removal
date: the record has no date on which it was lifted, and that is all it says.
It is not the Coast Guard, and it is not the source of record
Maury is built by Thalor Technologies and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the US Coast
Guard. The source of record is the Coast Guard's Port State Information Exchange and its
incident reports; vessel documentation is held by the National Vessel Documentation Center.
A correction made there is authoritative; a correction made here is an annotation shown
beside the record. How to correct a record.
It does not cover every barge
The archive holds vessels the Coast Guard classes as Barge or Towing Vessel. A hull
that is a barge in every practical sense but is filed under another class is not here.
41.1% of the records come from a single Coast Guard
district, so this is predominantly a record of the Mississippi–Ohio inland river
system. Coverage and known gaps.
It publishes nothing about any named operator
An operator page records which hulls a company filed, and never how those hulls fared. No
casualty, deficiency or control figure is published for a named operator, and populations
are published only where no single company's record could be read out of them.
It is behind the Coast Guard by design
This copy of the record runs through 23 August 2026 and was retrieved
5 September 2026. Anything recorded after that date is not here yet. A page can be
accurate and still be behind.