BBC OPAL

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

BBC OPAL is a 2008 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 2017, most recently in September 2024, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2017 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 21 September 2024.

Built: 2008
Last inspected: 21 September 2024
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 10
Deficiencies: 1 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 21 September 2024

Recorded inspections10

…physical examinations6

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2017–2024)

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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9506758

V2FR9

1150383

Flag

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

Maury page id

psix-1150383

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it14359 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
22996 - Displacement, Metric Ton
12810 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
5938 - 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 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 10

21 September 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8006715

1 August 2024 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7972258

2 August 2023 PSC B · COE-Administrative

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7734453

23 January 2020 Explosive Handling Operation-Commercial

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6894826

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

Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6754007

18 July 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6754199

23 July 2018 PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6484188

1 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6193912

27 June 2017 ISPS III Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6188164

30 May 2017 ISPS II Exam · COE-Dockside

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6159917

Deficiency record · 1

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Operational readiness of lifesaving appliances

Issued 2 August 2023 Resolved

Before the ship leaves port and at all times during the voyage, all life-saving appliances shall be in working order and ready for immediate use. PSCO observed hydrostatic release unit for the EPIRB was for liferaft use only. 74 SOLAS (am) III /20.2, 16ab

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 16 August 2023
Resolved 11 August 2023
Resolution: Recieved class report and pictures of the new hydrostaic release for EPIRB use only installed from the 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.