CAROLINA BLUE

Passenger (Inspected) · Passenger Ship class · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

CAROLINA BLUE is a passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2023, most recently in May 2026, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records from 2023 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 11 May 2026.

Built: Not recorded
Last inspected: 11 May 2026
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

1348884

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WDP9707

1815618

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1815618

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations6

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2023–2026)

The 6 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 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Passenger Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it4 - Simplified, Gross Ton
4 - Simplified, 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.

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. Reports.

Inspection history · 6

11 May 2026 Deficiency Check · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8371064

9 January 2026 Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8289165

21 May 2025 Deficiency Check · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8140563

11 February 2025 Administrative Inspection · In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8082195

1 July 2024 COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection · Construction Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7954383

7 November 2023 Administrative Inspection · Construction Oversight

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Coram · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7906140

Deficiency record · 3

07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire detection and alarm system

Issued 11 May 2026 Resolved

The owner or managing operator must provide satisfactory evidence of the required servicing to the marine inspector. If any of the equipment or records have not been properly maintained, a qualified servicing facility must perform the required inspections, maintenance procedures, and hydrostatic pressure tests. A tag issued by a qualified servicing organization, and attached to each extinguisher, may be accepted as evidence that the necessary maintenance procedures have been conducted.Vessel pre-engineered system is not inspected on an annual basis.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 25 May 2026
Resolved 27 May 2026
Resolution: O/O provieded Marine System Inspection report from Pye-Barker fire and saftey showing completed inspections.

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Lifejackets incl. provision and disposition

Issued 21 May 2025 Resolved

An adult life jacket must be provided for each person carried on board a vessel. Vessel is missing 02 of its required life jackets. Vessel restricted to operating with 21 adults on board, of which 19 may be passengers.

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 22 May 2025
Resolution: O/O sent Sector Charleston a picture of 02 new life jackets.

07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire fighting equipment and appliances

Issued 21 May 2025 Resolved

A vessel not required to have a power driven fire pump by § 181.300 must have at least three 9.5 liter (21/2 gallon) buckets, with an attached lanyard satisfactory to the cognizant [name withheld] buckets are 5 gallons when they should be 2.5 gallons.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 5 June 2025
Resolved 22 May 2025
Resolution: O/O sent a video showing that holes have been drilled into the fire buckets to only allow them to hold 2.5 gallons.

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.