The 9 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 General Dry Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.
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Documentation record
Tonnage as PSIX records it142208 - Displacement, Metric Ton 110908 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton 95390 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton 56260 - 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.
The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same
inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or
unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear
here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Ready availability of fire fighting equipment
Issued 28 May 2019Resolved
74 SOLAS(14) II/2 14.2.1.2
FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEMS AND APPLIANCES SHALL BE KEPT IN GOOD WORKING ORDER AND READILY AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE. FIRESTATION 40 ON STARBOARD SIDE WAS FOUND WITH BAD SEAL AND, UPON ACTUATION, VALVE STEM SHEERED, SECURING FIREMAIN VALVE IN CLOSED POSITION.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 12 August 2019
Resolution: Received DNV-GL classification society survey report #1317240 stating deficiency has been rectified. Survey report states: The valve was overhauled and machined valve stem. The attending surveyor confrimed no leakage after pressurize by fire pump.
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.