TOPAZ EXPRESS is a 2009 tank ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2016, most recently in September 2025, along with 3 deficiencies and 2 operational controls.
Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 12 September 2025.
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 Tank Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.
Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded.
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Tonnage as PSIX records it12193 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton 27976 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton 27976 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton 12193 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton 45650 - Dead Weight, Metric 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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Every recorded inspection, 2016 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
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Inspection history · 12
12 September 2025Type not recorded
No type recorded · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8233517
9 September 2025PSC B · COC-TVE Renew
Physical examination · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8222170
9 September 2025Type not recorded
No type recorded · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8229891
27 August 2025VRP Review
Administrative · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8276044
11 June 2024COC-TVE Annual · PSC B
Physical examination · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7929767
2 June 2023COC-TVE Renew · PSC B
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Saipan · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7697462
9 July 2019NPV Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination
Oil filtering equipment referred to in paragraph 1 of this regulation shall be of a design approved by the Administration and shall be such as will ensure that any oil mixture discharged into the sea after passing through the system has an oil content not exceeding 15 ppm. In considering the design of such equipment, the Administration shall have regard to the specification recommened by the Organiztaion. Due to the expanded MARPOL examination the oil content meter was removed as evidence.
Condition: Invalid
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 17 July 2019
Resolution: ABS submitted a statutory survey report stating, "as reported in this report HL3698823 in OSD no. 376, the oil content meter was replaced with a calibrated new equivalent oil content meter."
14 - Pollution Prevention › 141 - MARPOL Annex I › Suspected of discharge violation
Issued 9 July 2019Resolved
The oil record book part I shall be completed on each occasion, on a tank-to-tank basis if appropriate whenever any of the following machinery space operations takes place in the ship: discharge overboard or disposal otherwise of bilge water which has accumulated in machinery spaces. PSCO received cause to believe a transfer was made from the aft engine room bilge well to the clean drain tank via a portable pump.
Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 30 - Ship detained
Resolved 17 July 2019
Resolution: ABS conducted a survey and submitted a Statutory Survey Report and an annual IOPP Annex I survey.
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Oil record book
Issued 9 July 2019Resolved
Each operation described in paragraph 2 of this regulation shall be fully recorded without delay in the oil record book part I, so that all entrees in the book appropriate to that operation are completed. Each completed operation shall be signed by the officer or officers in charge of the operations concerned and each completed page shall be signed by the master of ship. A transfer from the aft engine room bilge well to the clean drain tank was not recorded in the oil record book part I.
Condition: Invalid
Action required: 30 - Ship detained
Resolved 17 July 2019
Resolution: A new Oil Record Book was issued to replace the oil record book seized by the USCG.
Ownership record
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