SSG EDWARD A CARTER JR

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · Built 2000s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

SSG EDWARD A CARTER JR is a 2001 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 40 inspections since 2016, most recently in March 2025, along with 6 deficiencies and 3 casualty investigations between 2020 and 2024.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 19 March 2025.

Built: 2001
Last inspected: 19 March 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 40
Deficiencies: 6 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2020–2024
Inspected with: 4 other vessels

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 19 March 2025

Recorded inspections40

…physical examinations17

…administrative events7

…with no type recorded16

Deficiencies 6 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

1267696

9215696

WECM

34118

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-34118

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it40085 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
24319 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
67099 - Displacement, Ton
51101 - 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

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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Inspected as a tow unit · 4

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

CORNHUSKER STATE Freight Ship · MISLE 46269 · 16 January 2025 · activity 8101444 GEORGE WATSON Public Vessel, Unclassified · MISLE 443610 · 16 January 2025 · activity 8101444 SCOTT TURECAMO Towing Vessel · MISLE 476323 · 16 January 2025 · activity 8101444 HAINA PATRIOT Tank Ship · MISLE 1658393 · 20 May 2024 · activity 7982047

Inspection history · 40

19 March 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8096501

28 January 2025 Explosive Handling Operation-Military

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8070768

16 January 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8101444

2 January 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Activities Europe · Activity 8056963

23 December 2024 Explosive Handling Operation-Commercial

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8188585

20 December 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8049713

26 July 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7979820

9 July 2024 MSP Annual Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7954434

26 June 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7943449

15 June 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7938568

5 June 2024 Explosive Handling Operation-Commercial

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7928861

20 May 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7982047

31 January 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7929578

8 August 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7762937

4 May 2023 MSP Annual Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection · MSP Select Handover Survey

Physical examination · Marine Inspections Unit Singapore · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7680715

4 February 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Activities Far East · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7633726

15 June 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Commandant (CG-5P-TI) · Activity 7490710

5 June 2022 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection · MSP Annual Oversight · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Activities Far East · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7469357

9 June 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7220949

22 April 2021 Explosive Handling Operation-Military

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7179119

15 March 2021 COI Inspection · MSP COI Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7156606

19 January 2021 Explosive Handling Operation-Military

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7122673

30 December 2020 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7130327

21 October 2020 MTSA/ISPS Verification · Annual Inspection · MSP Annual Oversight

Physical examination · Activities Far East · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7073011

8 July 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Activities Far East · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7000369

2 July 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Detroit · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6993723

7 January 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7122754

11 April 2019 Internal Structural Exam · Underwater Inspection in lieu of Drydock

Physical examination · Marine Inspections Unit Singapore · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 6660204

11 April 2019 Annual Inspection · MSP Annual Oversight · Ballast Water Examination · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Marine Inspections Unit Singapore · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 6660205

11 June 2018 MSP Annual Oversight · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Inspections Unit Singapore · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 6409710

3 August 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6228751

24 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6206806

22 May 2017 MSP Annual Oversight · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Activities Far East · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 6152900

27 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6075235

9 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6068380

9 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6068656

8 August 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6069818

5 May 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 5869524

26 April 2016 Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5864818

1 March 2016 DAPI Audit · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Reflagging & Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5837358

Deficiency record · 6

03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Machinery space openings

Issued 24 April 2019 Resolved

Return modifications for EDG ventilation to original OR gain approval from conpany and classification.

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 24 April 2019
Resolution: Returned to original, pictures sent to attending inspector.

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Rescue boats

Issued 24 April 2019 Resolved

Properly repair steering for port side rescue boat after it malfunctioned during the abandon ship drill. SOLAS III/20.2

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 24 April 2019
Resolution: Steering repaired and video sent to inspector.

07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Division - decks, bulkheads and penetrations

Issued 24 April 2019 Resolved

Properly sealopen cable penetrations in P/D electrical trunk space. SOLAS (2001 CONS) II-2/9.1.3

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 24 April 2019
Resolution: Corrected.

03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Covers (hatchway-, portable-, tarpaulins, etc.)

Issued 24 April 2019 Resolved

Replace gasket in mooring line hatch cover in bow area. ILLC Article 15

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 24 April 2019
Resolution: Corrected.

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

Issued 11 April 2019 Resolved

Replace retro tape on life buoys that were painted over. SOLAS (2014 CONS) III/7.1.1

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Resolved 24 April 2019
Resolution: Corrected.

Fire Fighting › Grease Extraction Hood › General

Issued 12 June 2018 Resolved

Per the Gap Analysis, Para. 8.0, ACTION, states "A new USCG approved fire extinguishing system will be installed in the grill exhaust duct" This system in NOT instatlled

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 July 2018
Resolved 21 October 2020
Resolution: Verified that vsl had a properly installed, approved galley exhaust system. Closed out open def identified in gap analysis.

Casualty record · 3

7 January 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · 1 injured · activity 7122754

15 June 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 7938568

26 June 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 7943449

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.