MELANESIAN CHIEF

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · Built 2000s · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O)

MELANESIAN CHIEF is a 2008 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections in 2024, along with 2 deficiencies.

Records in 2024. Most recent: inspection, 23 August 2024.

Built: 2008
Last inspected: 23 August 2024
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

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 General Dry Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 23 August 2024

Recorded inspections2

…physical examinations2

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 1 calendar year (2024)

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

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9405100

5LCX6

1050911

Flag

LIBERIA

Maury page id

psix-1050911

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it9957 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
13881 - Dead Weight, Ton
18996 - Displacement, Ton
5032 - 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

A report is not offered for this hull. Its Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 2

23 August 2024 PSC B

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7987818

3 July 2024 PSC A

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7945879

Deficiency record · 2

04 - Emergency Systems › N/A - No Subsystem › Emergency source of power - Emergency generator

Issued 3 July 2024 Resolved

Manual starting is permitted such as manually charged hydraulic accumulators where they can be demonstrated as being effective. While testing emergency generator, PSCO found manual hydraulic start inoperative but found two other satisfactory means of starting (battery). Repair hydraulic start to the satisfaction of class and provide report to Coast Guard. 74SOLAS(04)II-1/44.4.1 50ac

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 3 August 2024
Resolved 8 October 2024

04 - Emergency Systems › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire drills

Issued 3 July 2024 Resolved

Details of the general alarm and public address system are prescribed by section 7.2 of the Code. While conducting fire drill, PSCO found public address system inoperative delaying command and control of drill. Repair public address system to the satisfaction of class and provide report to Coast Guard.74SOLAS(20)III/37.1 LSA Code 7.2.2.1 50ac

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 3 August 2024
Resolved 8 October 2024

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.