DESERT CHALLENGER

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

DESERT CHALLENGER is a 2017 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 15 inspections since 2017, most recently in October 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 1 operational control.

Records from 2017 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 15 October 2025.

Built: 2017
Last inspected: 15 October 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 15
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 Bulk Carrier class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 15 October 2025

Recorded inspections15

…physical examinations6

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2017–2025)

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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9699842

SVCN3

1428847

Flag

GREECE

Maury page id

psix-1428847

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it34686 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
19958 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
61146 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
72669 - 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

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 · 15

15 October 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8253565

15 May 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8136664

26 July 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7966485

15 July 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7958830

15 July 2024 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7959010

8 January 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7846739

19 April 2022 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7428096

16 April 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7432193

12 April 2022 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7429406

10 December 2019 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6866029

9 December 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6867180

9 December 2019 COE-Offshore

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6871295

13 February 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6625100

14 November 2018 PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6576886

11 July 2017 PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6205084

Deficiency record · 1

Lifesaving › Inflatable Liferafts › Float Free

Issued 11 July 2017 Resolved

Each liferaft or group of liferafts shall be stowed with a float free arrangement complying with tthe requirements of paragraph 4.1.6 of the Code so that each floats free. All 04 of te 16 person liferafts were installed with their sea painters secured to the brackets instead of the hydrostatic release unit aid would not float free from the vessel in the event of sinking. 74SOLAS(14)III113.4.2 10c

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 11 July 2017
Resolved 11 July 2017
Resolution: Installed the liferaft correctly so that they would float free in the event of the vessel sinking.

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.