CAPE DIAMOND

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · Built 1970s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

CAPE DIAMOND is a 1972 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 15 inspections since 2016, most recently in November 2025, along with 3 deficiencies, 1 operational control and 5 casualty investigations between 2004 and 2021.

Records from 2004 to 2025. Most recent: operational control imposed, 13 November 2025.

Built: 1972
Last inspected: 12 November 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 15
Deficiencies: 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 5 investigations · 2004–2021

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 General Dry Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 12 November 2025

Recorded inspections15

…physical examinations13

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 10 calendar years (2016–2025)

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 exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

684097

7208443

WMHJ

248443

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-248443

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)680.3 ft × 97.0 ft × 67.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 13,214 / net 9,289

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)635.0 ft × 97.0 ft × 67.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 29,386 / net 8,815

BuilderCHANTIERS DE FRANCE · DUNKERQUE, FRANCE · built 1972

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNORFOLK, VA

Trade endorsementsRegistry

DocumentationValid · issued 13 February 2026 · expires 28 February 2027

Service, as the file records itFreight Ship

Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it24106 - Dead Weight, Ton
8815 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
9289 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
29386 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
13214 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

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.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspection history · 15

12 November 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8273464

10 July 2025 ACP Annual Oversight · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8266652

17 October 2024 MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection · ACP Annual Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8020263

19 October 2023 Annual Inspection · ACP Annual Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7811405

17 May 2023 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7690906

2 November 2022 ACP Annual Oversight · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7587907

1 November 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Key West · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7343734

8 July 2021 ACP Drydock Oversight · In-Service Inspection · ACP COI Oversight · Administrative Inspection · Re-Inspection · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7249782

23 June 2021 Deficiency Check · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7234145

25 September 2020 ACP Annual Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Administrative Inspection · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7065051

30 September 2019 Periodic Inspection · Administrative Inspection · ACP Periodic Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6839591

20 March 2019 Administrative Inspection · Special · In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6645984

7 September 2018 ACP Annual Oversight · Administrative Inspection · Special · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6534734

22 August 2017 Administrative Inspection · ACP Annual Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6248495

22 April 2016 ACP COI Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5907207

Deficiency record · 3

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

Issued 17 October 2024 Resolved

All required fire detection systems shall be capable of automatically indicating the presence or indication of fire and also its location. Fire detection system for the accommodation was found with 2 active faults as follows. "Fault (7) Sec 2 Section unit(s) missing"; "Fault (121) Loop 2 Cable Break". 60 SOLAS II-2/61

Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 17 November 2024
Resolved 21 October 2024
Resolution: RO accepted referral, issued statutory finding. Deficiency rectified.

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

Issued 19 October 2023 Resolved

All required fire detection shall be capable of automatically indicating the presence or indication of fire. There was a detector in the LP CO2 room, with a latex glove covering the face.

Condition: Placed in Improper Service
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 19 October 2023
Resolution: Glove removed upon finding it.

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Operation of machinery

Issued 30 June 2021 Resolved

Ships shall be provided with a main steering gear to the satisfaction of the Administration. Primary steering was responding incorrectly to helm commands on the bridge. If 20 degrees port was issued, the steering went to twenty degrees starboard.

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 12 August 2021
Resolved 12 August 2021
Resolution: Repairs were made to the steering comapartment by qualified third party and tested in the prescence of ABS and USCG. Test was satisfactory in all modes.

Casualty record · 5

11 February 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 2049923

1 March 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2049913

27 August 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3604574

30 June 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7240656

1 November 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7343734

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

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.