BLUE SAPPHIRE

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2000s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Other hulls named BLUE SAPPHIRE

BLUE SAPPHIRE is a 2001 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 13 inspections since 2002, most recently in February 2012, along with 4 deficiencies and 4 operational controls.

Records from 2002 to 2012. Most recent: inspection, 2 February 2012.

Built: 2001
Last inspected: 2 February 2012
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 13
Deficiencies: 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.

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IMO number

9226671 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

V7VB7

MISLE id

37891

Flag

MARSHALL ISLANDS

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-37891

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations10

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 8 calendar years (2002–2012)

The 13 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.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 14 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Bulk Carrier class in Maury's sources begin in 1981.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it28085 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
16065 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
48907 - Dead Weight, Ton
57340 - Displacement, 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.

Inspection history · 13

2 February 2012 Deficiency Check · PI Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 4226001

25 January 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 4244448

7 December 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 4203866

7 December 2011 PI Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 4204051

1 December 2011 Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 4197728

7 December 2009 PII Safety Exam · MARPOL Annex VI Survey · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · MARPOL Annex I Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3643225

18 April 2008 Ballast Water Examination · MARPOL Annex V Examination · MARPOL Annex I Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Portland · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 3181288

11 November 2007 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Honolulu · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 3097720

12 March 2007 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 2885631

10 January 2006 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · MARPOL Annex V Examination · ISPS I Exam · MARPOL Annex I Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2563645

8 July 2004 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · MSO ANCHORAGE · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 2127540

4 November 2002 Annual Inspection · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1700987

30 October 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1698719

Deficiency record · 4

Electrical › Electrical Distribution System (service) › Junction Box

Issued 1 December 2011 Resolved

All electrical apparatus shall be so constructed and so installed as not to cause injury when handled or touched in the normal manner. Electrical junction box for the steering gear fan was not water/weather tight.

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 1 January 2012
Resolved 16 February 2012
Resolution: Junction box replaced.

Fire Fighting › Fixed Fire Detection System › Heat Detectors

Issued 1 December 2011 Resolved

The function of fixed fire detection and fire alarm systems shall be periodically tested to the satisfaction of the administration by means of equipment producing hot air at the appropriate temperature, or smoke or aerosol particles having the appropriate range and density or particle size, or other phenomena associated with incipient fires to with the detector is designed to respond. See attached

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 1 January 2012
Resolved 16 February 2012
Resolution: Proper dedicated testing equipment provided to vessel, and crew educated.

Lifesaving › Inflatable Liferafts › Container Construction

Issued 1 December 2011 Resolved

Before the ship leaves port and at all times during the voyage, all life-saving appliances shall be in working order and ready for immediate use. Forward liferaft container found cracked, possibly exposing liferaft to the outside elements.

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 1 January 2012
Resolved 16 February 2012
Resolution: Liferaft replaced.

Engineering › Diesel Engine (propulsion-direct drive) › Cylinder

Issued 11 November 2007 Resolved

Make permanent repairs to main engine, cylinder #4, apparent broken piston rings, prior to departure and provide a class report..

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 16 November 2007
Resolved 16 November 2007
Resolution: Received NKK report attesting to permanant repair and proper operation.

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.