VENTURE GATOR

Tank Ship · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

VENTURE GATOR is a 2024 tank ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2024, most recently in August 2025, along with 2 deficiencies and 1 operational control.

Records from 2024 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 17 August 2025.

Built: 2024
Last inspected: 17 August 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 5
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

9956599 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

5LNQ2

MISLE id

1827796

Flag

LIBERIA

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-1827796

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations4

…administrative events1

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2024–2025)

The 5 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 Tank Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it115728 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
87950 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
121824 - Displacement, Metric Ton
34718 - Convention (Subpart B), Net 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.

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 · 5

17 August 2025 PSC B · COC-GAS Annual

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8209345

9 July 2025 Deficiency Check · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8180165

14 February 2025 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8079790

10 September 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8000025

28 August 2024 COC-GAS Renew · PSC A

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7982585

Deficiency record · 2

06 - Cargo Operations Including Equipment › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (cargo)

Issued 14 February 2025 Resolved

Low cargo temperatures below -110°C, a water distribution system shall be fitted in way of the hull under the shore connections to provide a low-pressure water curtain for additional protection of the hull steel and the ship's side structure. This system is in addition to the requirements of 11.3.1.4, and shall be operated when cargo transfer is in progress. Vessel's starboard side water curtain is inoperable. Vessel in not authorized to conduct cargo operation on the starboard side of the ship.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 9 July 2025
Resolution: PSC NOLA received a class report from ABS satisfying the requirement.

01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Endorsement of cargo booklet

Issued 28 August 2024 Resolved

A gas carrier shall comply with the requirements of the international gas carrier code. The ship shall be provided with copies of suitably detailed cargo system operation manuals approved by the Administration. Vessel could not provide an approved cargo system operation manual. 74 SOLAS (2020) VII/13.1 IGC Code (2016) 18.2.1 40 bc

Condition: Placed in Improper Service
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 28 August 2024
Resolved 29 August 2024
Resolution: Received class report from ABS showing the cargo operation manual as being approved.

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.