AFRICAN NIGHTJAR

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2010s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

AFRICAN NIGHTJAR is a 2015 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2016, most recently in July 2025, along with 4 deficiencies and 3 operational controls.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 29 July 2025.

Built: 2015
Last inspected: 29 July 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 4 other vessels

Identity

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9690901

9V2715

1354991

Flag

SINGAPORE

Maury page id

psix-1354991

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations6

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded4

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2016–2025)

The 12 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 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it24785 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
39758 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
50251 - Displacement, Metric Ton
13022 - 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.

One vessel history report for this hull — every record on this page in one dated, citable document — $300, on request.

Inspected as a tow unit · 4

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.

LOUISIANA Towing Vessel · MISLE 76084 · 23 December 2016 · activity 6072073 ANGUS R. COOPER Towing Vessel · MISLE 85820 · 23 December 2016 · activity 6072073 CAPT. BUD BISSO Towing Vessel · MISLE 370011 · 23 December 2016 · activity 6072073 ARCHIE T. HIGGINS Towing Vessel · MISLE 1371754 · 23 December 2016 · activity 6072073

Inspection history · 12

29 July 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8196986

19 January 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7382535

11 December 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7366340

8 December 2021 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7360270

1 October 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6552705

8 May 2018 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6409084

5 May 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6412294

4 May 2018 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6414114

11 April 2018 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6388812

24 December 2016 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6058853

23 December 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6061926

23 December 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6072073

Deficiency record · 4

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

Issued 8 December 2021 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. Port and Starboard life rafts were stowed with painter lines secured to the deck instead of hydrostatic weak-link.

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 8 December 2021
Resolved 8 December 2021
Resolution: USCG confirmed proper installation of painter lines on all life rafts prior to departing the vessel

Engineering › Diesel Engine (propulsion-direct drive) › Camshaft

Issued 4 May 2018 Resolved

1410 - PROPULSION MAIN ENGINE - THE CONDITION OF THE SHIP AND ITS EQUIPMENT SHALL BE MAINTAINED TO CONFORM WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE PRESENT REGULATIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE SHIP IN ALL RESPECTS WILL REMAIN FIT TO PROCEED TO SEA WITHOUT DANGER TO THE SHIP OR PERSONS ONBOARD. DURING PRE ARRIVAL TESTS MDE FAILED TO ANSWER ASTERN BELLS OR AHEAD BELLS. 74SOLAS(14)I/11(a) -60ac-

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 12 May 2018
Resolution: VESSLE REPLACED CAMSHAFT AND FUEL PUMP; CONDUCTED SATISFACTORY SEA TRIAL; SUBMITTED SATISFACTORY CLASS SURVEY REPORT; ALL SATISFACTORY.

Construction/Loadline › Markings › Load Line Mark

Issued 11 April 2018 Resolved

The rings lines and lettering of the Load Line shall be painted in a white or yellow on a dark darkground or in black on a lightground. Load Line is rusted rendering it obscured.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 8 May 2018
Resolution: Recieved Satisfactory class report attesting to repairs

Operations/Management › Pollution › Ballast Water Management

Issued 11 April 2018 Resolved

The master or person in charge of any vessel equipped with ballast water tanks that operates in the water of the United States must follow the practices. Romove fouling organisms from the vessels hull. Barnacles were present on hull.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 8 May 2018
Resolution: Recieved Class report attesting to repairs made.

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.