MA BELL is a 1960 research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 1986, most recently in June 2007, along with 1 operational control.
Records from 1986 to 2007. Most recent: inspection, 12 June 2007.
The 6 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 19 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 Research Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.
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Documentation record
Tonnage as PSIX records it13 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton 18 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross 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 · 6
12 June 2007In-Service Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 2980463
15 March 2006Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 2603207
10 April 2003Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO PHILADELPHIA · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 1780391
20 October 2000Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCG East District · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 723213
12 July 2000Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO PHILADELPHIA · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 108012
13 January 1986Type not recorded
No type recorded · MIO PHILADELPHIA · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 991396
No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.
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.
