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BALMORAL
BALMORAL is a 1988 passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2016, most recently in October 2023, along with 5 deficiencies and 2 operational controls.
Records from 2016 to 2023. Most recent: inspection, 9 October 2023.
- Built
- 1988
- Last inspected
- 9 October 2023
- Documentation
- Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
- Deficiencies
- 5 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
Identity
This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 3 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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.
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded1
Years with a record
3 calendar years (2016–2023)
Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded.
The counts in the strip above are the same counts; this table splits the inspections by
the kind of activity 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.
Documentation record
Tonnage as PSIX records it43537 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
19985 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
5186 - Dead Weight, Ton
19985 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
5186 - Dead Weight, 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.
Vessel history report
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. What a sparse-record report looks like.
Inspection history · 5
9 October 2023
COC-CVE Annual · PSC B
Physical examination · Sector Northern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7804817
19 February 2019
Deficiency Check · COC-CVE Initial · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam
Physical examination · Sector San Diego · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6626767
15 February 2019
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector San Diego · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6626757
29 November 2016
Ballast Water Examination · ISPS III Exam · COC-CVE Annual
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Saint Thomas · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6047272
29 April 2016
ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · COC-CVE Quarterly
Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 5865694
Deficiency record · 5
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions
Issued 19 February 2019
Resolved
Fire doors in main vertical bulkheads and stairway enclosures shall be capable of self closing and the speed of closure shall, if necessary, be controlled so as to prevent undue danger to persons. Found the following fire doors not properly closing: Z3-2-421, Z2-5-403, Z2-5-406, Z3-6-417, Z3-6-414, Z2-5-402, Z1-5-401, Z1-6-405, 8-411, 8-601, *Z3A-4-441, *Z3A-4-440. (* - Sliding Mechanism not re-opening properly).
(74) SOLS 81 Amm. Ch II-2/Reg 30.4
14 - Pollution Prevention › 141 - MARPOL Annex I › Other (MARPOL Annex I)
Issued 19 February 2019
Resolved
Discharges overboard of bilge water which has accumulated in the machinery spaces shall be completed on each occasion, on a tank-to-tank basis. Operations involving the bilge water holding tank to the OWS to the clean bilge water holding tank and from this tank overboard have incorrect entry codes. Correct entry codes and provide training/direction to engineering officers.
MARPOL 73/78 (2011 Cons Ed) Annex I Reg 17.2.4
Engineering › Diesel Engine (propulsion-reduction gear) › Exhaust Manifold
Issued 29 November 2016
Resolved
1410 - After any survey of the ship has been completed, no change shall be made in the machinery equipment covered by the survey. The lagging on both marine diesel engines manifold is not properly installed. - SOLAS 74/78 I/11 -16a
Fire Fighting › Fixed Fire Detection System › Heat Detectors
Issued 29 November 2016
Resolved
0715 - Indicating units shall denote the section in which a detector has operated. Heat detector B-1-008 does not activate indicating unit on the bridge. -SOLAS 74 II-2/13.1.6 -10c
Fire Fighting › Automatic Sprinkler System › Pressure Tank
Issued 29 November 2016
Resolved
0725 - Fire-extinguishing appliances shall be kept in good order and be available for immediate use at all times. PSCO witnessed discharge of nitrogen bottles for ship's transitional power supply for the wet type automatic sprinkler system. SOLAS 74 II-2/21 -17a
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.