VL PIONEER

Tank Ship · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

VL PIONEER is a 2014 tank ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2018, most recently in April 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2018 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 29 April 2025.

Built: 2014
Last inspected: 29 April 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
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 Tank Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 29 April 2025

Recorded inspections4

…physical examinations2

…administrative events2

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2018–2025)

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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9683661

5LPX4

1485810

Flag

PANAMA

Maury page id

psix-1485810

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it161367 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
157957 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
319547 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
364796 - 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 1 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 · 4

29 April 2025 COC-TVE Annual

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8116182

21 February 2024 COC-TVE Renew

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7864853

23 December 2021 PSC B · COC-TVE Renew

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7365968

20 March 2018 COC-TVE Renew · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6370728

Deficiency record · 1

06 - Cargo Operations Including Equipment › N/A - No Subsystem › Atmosphere testing instruments

Issued 21 February 2024 Resolved

The gas detection equipment shall be so designed that it may readily be tested and calibrated. The fixed gas detection unit is unable to reliably provide an accurate sample reading from the spaces it is required to sample. 74 SOLAS (20) II-2/4.5.7.3.1 FSS CODE 2015/16.2.2.3.4

Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 21 February 2024
Resolved 22 February 2024
Resolution: Vessel submitted documentation from class surveyor and technician verifying the system is working properly and as intended.

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.