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LIBERTY EXPLORER
LIBERTY EXPLORER is a 2011 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2016, most recently in April 2025, along with 5 deficiencies.
Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 11 April 2025.
- Built
- 2011
- Last inspected
- 11 April 2025
- Documentation
- Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
- Deficiencies
- 5 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
11 April 2025
Deficiencies
5 recorded · 0
without a recorded resolution
Operational controls
None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record
4 calendar years (2016–2025)
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
Documentation record
Tonnage as PSIX records it34795 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
20209 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
61388 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
72322 - Displacement, Metric Ton
20209 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
61388 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
72322 - Displacement, 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.
Vessel history report
A report is not offered for this hull. Its record holds only 1 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 · 5
11 April 2025
PSC B
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8101257
24 January 2023
PSC B
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7617923
3 April 2020
Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6939416
17 March 2020
PSC B
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6922054
29 March 2016
Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam
Physical examination · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5842518
Deficiency record · 5
15 - Safety Management Systems (ISM) › N/A - No Subsystem › Maintenance of the ship and equipment
Issued 11 April 2025
Resolved
The company and the ship shall comply with the requirements of the International Safty Code ... The Company should establish procedures to ensure that the ship is maintained in conformity with the provisions of the relevant rules and regulations. Due to the presence of multiple deficiencies in different aspects of the exam an internal audit is required.
SOLAS(20) IX/3
ISM Code 10.1
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Safe means of access Deck - hold/tank, etc.
Issued 11 April 2025
Resolved
Satisfactory means in the form of guard rails shall be provided for the protection of the crew in getting to and from the machinery space conducting necessary work of the ship. On the second deck of the engine room, it was discovered that a guard rail was missing. After further investigation, it was revealed that the rail had been missing for one month.
ILLC 25.4
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (fire safety)
Issued 11 April 2025
Resolved
The arrangements for the storage, distribution and utilization of oil used in pressure lubrication systems shall be such to ensure the safety of the ship and persons on board. There were approximately 20 barrels of hydraulic oil 08 feet away from the ship's welding and grinding table while grinding was occuring without the use of a curtain to block sparks.
SOLAS (20) II-2/4.2.3.1
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Ready availability of fire fighting equipment
Issued 11 April 2025
Resolved
Hoses in this Chapter as "fire hoses" shall. together with any necessary fittings and tools, be kept ready for use in conspicuous spaces near the water service hydrants or connections. The ship's fire hose stations in the engine room did not have spanner wrenches included with them. The wrenches were kept in the workshops away from the hydrants.
SOLAS(20) II-2/10.2.5.1.1
99 - Other › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (Safety in general)
Issued 17 March 2020
Resolved
When operating a vessel on a body of water where the discharge of treated or untreated sewage is prohibited by the EPA under 40CFR140.3 or 140.4, the operator must secure each Type I or Type II device in a manner which prevents discharge of treated or untreated sewage. Vessel was discharging (pumping) their sewage from the approved MSD to a the 5TSP void space. Their sewage diagram has a hand written note authorizing said transfer. Required vessel to either provide documentation from class allowing the transfer of sewage or to clean the 5TSP voild space of sewage.
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.