AFRICAN CARDINAL is a 2019 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 2019, most recently in April 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 operational controls.
Records from 2019 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 7 April 2025.
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.
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
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Tonnage as PSIX records it20170 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton 61226 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton 72395 - Displacement, Metric Ton 34634 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross 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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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.
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Buoyant apparatus
Issued 21 June 2023Resolved
Not less than 02 lifebuoys sahll be provided with lifebouy sefl activating smoke signals complying with paragraph 2.1.3 of the LSA code and be capable of quick release from the navigation bridge. PSCO observed the quick release lifebouy on port side missing. SOLAS(20) III/7.1.1.3
Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 15 - Rectify deficiencies by next port
Resolved 27 October 2024
Resolution: Received photos and documentation attesting to replacement of buoy. Deficiency closed.
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.