Records in 2023. Most recent: operational control imposed, 23 June 2023.
15 - Safety Management Systems (ISM) › N/A - No Subsystem › Maintenance of the ship and equipment
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
The company and the ship shall comply with the requirements of the ISM Code. Objective evidence discovered in an expanded ISM examination revealed that the vessel failed to fully implement the requirements of the SMS. Specifically, the company did not provide safe practices in ship operation and a safe working environment. This is made particularly evident by deficiencies #02, #03, #06, and #07. Additionally, the company failed to establish procedures that ensured the ship was maintained in conformity with the provisions of the relevant rules and regulations. This is made particularly evident by deficiencies #03, #04, #07, and #08. An external audit is required.
74 SOLAS 20 IX/3.1 ISM Code 1.2.2.1 ISM Code 10.1
Action required: 30 - Ship detained
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: ISM audit completed by ICS Class Auditor. Audit findings: Lack of thoroughness during Safety Officer Safety Inspections performance, lack of command, lack of Company Follow up Actions in the implementation of corrective actions.
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Protection machinery
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
The machinery, boilers and other pressure vessels, associated piping systems and fittings shall be of a design and construction adequate for the service for which they are intended and shall be so installed and protected as to reduce to a minimum any danger to persons on board, due regard being paid to moving parts, hot surfaces and other hazards. All three ship's service generators have exposed rotating machinery of sufficient size to pose a serious personnel hazard.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/26.1
Action required: 30 - Ship detained
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Crew installed half circle bronze cover and protective rail guard with plate warning on all three generators.
13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (machinery)
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
Electrical installations shall be such that all electrical auxiliary services necessary for maintaining the ship in normal operational and habitable conditions will be ensured without recourse to the emergency source of electrical power. Due to water losses, the crew is manually adding water to the closed-loop cooling systems on all three ship's service generators to prevent loss of main power.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/40.1.1
Action required: 30 - Ship detained
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Crew replaced the leaking seal ring found on cooling fresh water pump No. 2 Aux. E that was the root cause of low water level. The other two Aux. E cooling fresh water systems were also serviced by tightening and cleaning. No further leaking detected.
08 - Alarms › N/A - No Subsystem › Machinery controls alarm
Issued 22 June 2023
No resolution recorded
After the survey of the ship, no changes shall be made in the structural arrangements, machinery, equipment, and other items covered by the survey, without the sanction of the Administration. All four bilge alarms in the engine room were inoperable.
74 SOLAS 20 I/11(b)
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Cleanliness of engine room
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
The fire safety objectives of this chapter are to reduce the risk to life caused by fire. Excessive oily water was identified in the bilges, and oil-soaked lagging was found on the piping for the fuel oil transfer pump.
74 SOLAS 20 II-2/2.1.1.2
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Crew cleaned excessive oily water from bilges. Oil soaked rags and oily water were taken off of vessel to facility. Oil soaked lagging on fuel oil transfer pump piping was also replaced.
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Electrical
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
In order to ensure ready availability of the emergency source of electrical power, arrangements shall be made where necessary to disconnect automatically non-emergency circuits from the emergency switchboard to ensure that electrical power shall be available automatically to the emergency circuits. A pressure washer was hard-wired directly into the emergency generator switchboard to enable its temporary use.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/43.5.5
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: The electrician removed the wires from the e.gen switchboard.
13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (machinery)
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
Every steam pipe and every fitting connected thereto through which steam may pass shall be so designed, constructed and installed as to withstand the maximum working stresses to which it may be subjected. Steam pipe in engine room has a steady leak during routine operation.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/33.1
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Crew stopped the boiler, and replaced gaskets and tightened the steam pipe connection. Inspected by the surveyor, no leakage found. Attending MI's also witnessed no steam leak in the Engine Room.
13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Operation of machinery
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
Means shall be provided whereby normal operation of propulsion machinery can be sustained or restored even though one of the essential auxiliaries becomes inoperative. Special consideration shall be given to the malfunctioning of, among other systems, the fuel oil supply systems for boilers or engines. There is a leak in the piping to the fuel oil transfer pump #2, significant enough that the crew stopped using the pump for safety reasons, leaving only a single fuel oil supply pump available.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/45.2
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Crew replaced gaskets and tightened connection. No evidence of leak after maintenance.
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire detection and alarm system
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
The function of fixed fire detection systems shall be periodically tested to the satisfaction of the Administration by means of equipment producing hot air at the appropriate temperature, or smoke or aerosol particles having the appropriate range of density or particle size, or other phenomena associated with incipient fires to which the detector is designed to respond. No intended fire detection testing method was on board, and the vessel’s crew was conducting periodic tests of the fire detection system using exhaled cigarette smoke, with no target temperature, density, or particle range, or means of measuring those parameters.
74 SOLAS 20 II-2/7.3.1
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 22 July 2023
Resolved 4 July 2023
Resolution: Vessel crew was provided a SDi LLC tester spray by Company. The crew was able to demonstrate proper procedures for testing smoke detectors with the SDi LLC spray tester.
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Obstruction/slipping, etc.
Issued 22 June 2023
Resolved
Main and emergency switchboards shall be so arranged as to give easy access as may be needed to apparatus and equipment, without danger to personnel. A significant amount of unsecured gear was found behind the engine room switchboard, obstructing personnel access.
74 SOLAS 20 II-1/45.2
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 22 June 2023
Resolution: Ship's crew removed items being stored behind the switchboard.