ABILITY

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named ABILITY

ABILITY is a 2021 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2021, most recently in January 2025, along with 2 deficiencies and 1 operational control.

Records from 2021 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 16 January 2025.

Built: 2021
Last inspected: 16 January 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.

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IMO number

9908281 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

5LAT4

MISLE id

1684017

Flag

LIBERIA

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-1684017

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations3

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2021–2025)

The 9 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1981.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it36757 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
36757 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
21162 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
21162 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
64252 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
75837 - Displacement, Metric Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of 6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.

Inspection history · 9

16 January 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8057133

20 June 2024 In-Service Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Belfast · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7938502

20 June 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Northern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7953933

26 July 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7752793

20 July 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Dauphin Island · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7747952

17 July 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7744729

6 February 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7391462

10 August 2021 PSC A

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7282428

26 July 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7268620

Deficiency record · 2

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Propulsion main engine

Issued 20 June 2024 Resolved

SUFFICIENT POWER FOR GOING ASTERN SHALL BE PROVIDED TO SECURE PROPER CONTROL OF THE SHIP IN ALL NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES. PSCO WAS MADE AWARE OF A LOSS OF PROPULSION AND WITNESSED A STUCK PLUNGER CODE IN FUEL PUMP SIX. 74 SOLAS (2014) II-1/28.1

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Due 21 June 2024
Resolved 21 June 2024
Resolution: MSU Belfast recieved statments from the vessel Master and Chief Engineer speaking to their proper repairs along with a Class Report attesting to the same.

14 - Pollution Prevention › 148 - Ballast Water › Ballast Water Management System (BMWS)

Issued 10 August 2021 Resolved

CG007 - BALLAST WATER - To discharge ballast water into waters of the United States, the Master, Owner, Oeprator, Agent, or Persons in Charge of a vessel subject to 151.2025 of this subpart must ensure that the ballast water meets the ballast water discharge standard as defined in 151.2030(a). Ballast water treatment system inoperable. 33 CFR 151.2035(a) 40ac

Condition: Design Flaw
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 11 August 2021
Resolution: Received class report from NKK attesting to repair of BWTS. BWTS operational.

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.