BRIGHT STAR

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

BRIGHT STAR is a 2011 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 13 inspections since 2018, most recently in May 2025, along with 7 deficiencies and 6 operational controls.

Records from 2018 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 1 May 2025.

Built: 2011
Last inspected: 1 May 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 13
Deficiencies: 7 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 Bulk Carrier class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 1 May 2025

Recorded inspections13

…physical examinations5

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded6

Deficiencies 7 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 calendar years (2018–2025)

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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9481960

D5QA2

1130404

Flag

LIBERIA

Maury page id

psix-1130404

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it22988 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
11574 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
345142 - Dead Weight, Ton
436317 - Displacement, 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

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

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 · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspection history · 13

1 May 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8126659

23 April 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8112627

26 March 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7656935

26 March 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7656963

15 January 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7380880

15 January 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7382065

15 March 2021 PSC A

Physical examination · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7156071

7 January 2021 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Savannah · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7121094

16 December 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7138634

8 July 2019 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6741416

7 July 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6740540

29 June 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6729706

19 March 2018 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Savannah · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6373168

Deficiency record · 7

Lifesaving › Rescue Boat › Hull (combination rigid/inflated)

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0615. 17AC. Before the ship leaves port and at all times duringthe voyage, all lifesaving equipment shall be in working order and ready for immediate use. Vessel's rescue boat is inoperable. Flag state issued dispensation stating "The master should develop procedures for recovery of persons from water". Vessel could not provide written instructions or explain recovery of injured personnel. SOLAS 74(09) III/20.2

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 20 March 2018
Resolved 22 March 2018
Resolution: MSU Savannah received a class report from DNV-GL satisfying the requirement. Master drafted and implemented procedures for using the lifeboat for a rescue boat.

Lifesaving › Inflatable Liferafts › Servicing

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0620. 17AC. Every inflatable liferaft, inflatable lifejacket shall be serviced at intervals not exceeding 12 months. All liferafts are past inspection date. SOLAS 74(09) III/20.8.1.1

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 20 March 2018
Resolved 23 March 2018
Resolution: MSU Savannah received a class report from DNV-GL satisfying the requirement. Ship recieved new liferafts and installed onw HS units.

Communications › Radio Communications › Radiotelephone Transceiver (2-27.5 MHz)

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0669. 17AC. Such radar transponders shall conform to performance standards not to those adapted by the organization. Batteries for SARTs have expired. SOLAS 74(09) III/6.2.2

Communications › Radio Communications › EPIRB

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0672. 17AC. Every ship shall: capable of transmitting a distress alert; capable of floating free if the ship sinks. Hydrostatic release on EPIRB is expired.

Engineering › Fuel Oil Storage/Transfer System › Piping

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0099. C. Each loading arm and each transfer pipe system, including each metallic hose, must not leak under static liquid pressure at least 1 and 1/2 times the MAWP. Vessel has not completed hydrostatic test. 33CFR 156.170(4)

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 703 - Prior to bunkering operations
Resolved 21 March 2018
Resolution: Vessel conducted static liquid pressure test to the satisfaction of USCG.

Operations/Management › EPA Vessel General Permit (VGP) › 2.2.3.7-Empty Ballast Tanks/Unpumpable Water

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

0099. 40C. Remove fouling organisms from vessel's hull, piping and tanks on a regular basis and dispose of any removed sunstance IAW local, state and federal regulations. Vessel has exess hull growth from being "laid up". 33CFR 151.2050(f)

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 8 July 2019
Resolution: Vsl had removed the organisms

Operations/Management › Ballast Water Managment › Ballast Retention

Issued 20 March 2018 Resolved

9900. C. The Master, owner, operator, agent or person in charge of a vessel equipped with ballast tanks that operates in US waters must employ one of the following BW methods listed in 33CFR151.2025. Vessel is not fitted with a BW management system or USCG approved AMS and is past the implimentational date. Vessel is prohibited from discharging ballast water in US waters unless BW was recieved from US public water system. 33CFR 151.2025

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 7 January 2021

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.