EMERALD TOWER

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

EMERALD TOWER is a freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2019, most recently in April 2025, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records from 2019 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 2 April 2025.

Built: Not recorded
Last inspected: 2 April 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 8
Deficiencies: 3 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 2 April 2025

Recorded inspections8

…physical examinations6

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2019–2025)

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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9618288

5LXL8

1584987

Flag

PANAMA

Maury page id

psix-1584987

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it96375 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
110348 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
142194 - Displacement, Metric Ton
56260 - 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.

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 · 8

2 April 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8103873

24 January 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7853923

14 February 2023 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7632002

13 April 2021 PSC B · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7174151

12 March 2021 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7155334

16 December 2020 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7113092

5 December 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6868500

17 September 2019 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6815303

Deficiency record · 3

02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Electrical installations in general

Issued 13 April 2021 Resolved

Ships shall be designed, constructed and maintained in compliance with the structural, mechanical and electrical requirements of a classification society which is recognized by the administration in accordance with the provisions of regulation X1-1/1, or with applicable national standards of the administration which provide an equivalent level of safety. PSCO observed new installation of pipe welding around old corroded piping leading to the foc'sle. 74 SOLAS (20) 11-1/3-1

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 24 May 2021
Resolution: The installed pipe was removed and repairs were inspected by DNV surveyor.

99 - Other › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (Safety in general)

Issued 12 March 2021 Resolved

Following installation: the master, owner, operator, or person in charge of the vessel must properly maintain the BWMS in accordance with all specifications. Vessel's ballast water management system was inoperable. Vessel shall not discharge ballast water into waters of the United States.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 22 May 2021
Resolution: Received satisfactory class report from DNV attesting to repairs of the BWTS.

99 - Other › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (Safety in general)

Issued 16 December 2020 Resolved

Following installations, the Master, Owner, Operator, Agent, or person in charge of the vessel must properly maintain the BWMS in accordance with all manufacturer specifications. Vessel's ballast water management system is inoperable. Vessel shall not discharge ballast water into U.S. waters. 33 CFR 151.2025 (a)(1)

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 22 May 2021
Resolution: Received satisfactory class report attesting to repairs of the BWTS.

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.