AFRICAN PUFFIN is a 2014 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 15 inspections since 2016, most recently in October 2025, along with 5 operational controls.
Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: operational control imposed, 3 October 2025.
The 15 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1981.
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Documentation record
Tonnage as PSIX records it55863 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton 65794 - Displacement, Metric Ton 31874 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton 18495 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.
Radio station licence
No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of
6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.
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 · 15
3 October 2025Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8246215
17 September 2025Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8235965
13 September 2025Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8233851
6 September 2025COE-Administrative
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8228488
1 May 2025PSC B
Physical examination · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8115688
19 September 2023Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7802106
18 September 2023Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7794275
10 September 2022Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7555708
15 November 2021PSC B
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7350528
14 November 2021Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7350595
2 November 2021COE-Administrative · Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7343722
22 September 2019Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6817837
3 September 2019Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6795037
7 December 2016COE-Administrative · COE-Dockside
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6052174
25 November 2016ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6043634
No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.
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.
