MSC MICHELA

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE)

MSC MICHELA is a freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 11 inspections since 2016, most recently in August 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 13 August 2025.

Built: Not recorded
Last inspected: 13 August 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 11
Deficiencies: 1 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 General Dry Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 13 August 2025

Recorded inspections11

…physical examinations4

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 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

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9720512

CQID5

1420675

Flag

PORTUGAL

Maury page id

psix-1420675

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it94469 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
53022 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
110531 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
144428 - 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 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 11

13 August 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8203146

25 March 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6649023

15 January 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6610611

6 November 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6575980

29 August 2018 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6526424

17 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6392786

4 December 2017 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6317542

17 November 2017 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6308876

4 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6196993

13 December 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6056363

11 October 2016 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6020011

Deficiency record · 1

02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Loading/Ballast condition

Issued 29 August 2018 Resolved

33CFR151.2026(c); 50(c); TO ENSURE THE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE AMS EQUIPMENT, THE MASTER, OWNER, OPERATOR, AGENT OR PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE VESSEL MUST ENSURE THE AMS IS MAINTAINED AND OPERATED IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS. AMS INSTALLED IN VESSEL IS INOPERATIONAL DUE TO 03 OF 24 UV LIGHTS NO FUNCTIONAL.

Condition: Design Flaw
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 29 September 2018
Resolved 6 November 2018
Resolution: Received e-mail with scanned invoice from agent attesting to proof the deficiency issued from Activity #6526424 has been rectified. Invoice shows: UV Light Bulbs purchased and received for the ballast water treatment system. Deficiency cleared.

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.