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HC OPAL

HC OPAL is a 2010 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2017, most recently in July 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2017 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 10 July 2025.

Built
2010
Last inspected
10 July 2025
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

Identity

9377846
1120357
Flag
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Maury page id
psix-1120357

Inspections, by type

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2017–2025)
The 8 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.

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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it8395 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
15617 - Displacement, Metric Ton
4196 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
11185 - 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.

A report is not offered for this hull: Its record holds only 2 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.

Inspection history · 8

10 July 2025 Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8182266
2 July 2025 Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8172959
26 June 2025 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8168075
29 July 2019 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6758774
23 July 2019 COE-Administrative
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6759895
16 May 2018 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6415680
20 March 2018 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6371220
2 February 2017 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination
Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6077548

Deficiency record · 1

Electrical › Lighting (service) › Lighting Fixture
Issued 16 May 2018 Resolved
No elcetrical equipment shall be installed in any space where flammable mixtures are liable to collect, E.G. in compartments assigned principally to accumulator batteries, in paint lockers, acetylene stores or similar spaces unless the administration is satisfied that such equipment is of a type which will not ignite the mixture concerned. PSCO found an installed jumper wire used for battery charging, tied into the explosion proof lighting within the battery room. The jumper posed an electrical hazard as it had exposed leads and terminals. vessels crew removed jumper prior to PSCO departing the vessel.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 16 May 2018
Resolved 16 May 2018
Resolution: Vessel personnel removed jumper prior to PSCO departing vessel.

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.