BALSA 89 is a 2013 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 22 inspections since 2016, most recently in October 2025, along with 2 deficiencies and 5 operational controls.
Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 27 October 2025.
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.
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
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Tonnage as PSIX records it7760 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton 10474 - Displacement, Metric Ton 5698 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton 2606 - 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
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.
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Inspection history · 22
27 October 2025PSC B
Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8258985
21 September 2025Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8238216
1 August 2025In-Service Inspection
Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8201917
1 August 2025Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8202233
13 November 2024COE-Administrative
Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8034002
10 July 2024COE-Administrative
Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7955315
26 July 2023Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7752901
29 June 2023Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7726484
3 March 2023Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7645078
16 August 2022PSC B
Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7535328
17 July 2022Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7509219
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Stowage and provision of liferafts
Issued 16 August 2022Resolved
The liferaft painter system shall provide a connection between the ship and the liferaft and shall be so arranged as to ensure that the liferaft when released and, in the case of and inflatable liferaft, inflated and not dragged under by the sinking ship. PSCO observed improper installation of painter system.
74SOLAS20 III/13.4.2
LSA 4.1.6.1
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 23 August 2022
Resolved 23 August 2022
Resolution: Crew reattached painter to proper location.
03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (load lines)
Issued 16 August 2022Resolved
The ringlines and letters shall be painted in white or yellow on a dark ground or in black on a light ground. PSCO observed paint rubbed off load line marking.
ICLL (88 prot) Reg 8
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 14 October 2022
Resolved 14 October 2022
Resolution: Master provided photgraphic evidence and Class Report that Load Line markings had been repainted.
Ownership record
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with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National
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