SPAR CETUS

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 1990s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

SPAR CETUS is a 1998 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 21 inspections since 1998, most recently in January 2016, along with 2 deficiencies and 2 operational controls.

Records from 1998 to 2016. Most recent: inspection, 30 January 2016.

Built: 1998
Last inspected: 30 January 2016
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 21
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.

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IMO number

9154608 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

LAVC5

MISLE id

483539

Flag

NORWAY

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-483539

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations9

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded11

Years with a record 14 calendar years (1998–2016)

The 21 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 10 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 it25982 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
45725 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
14834 - Convention (Subpart B), Net 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 · 21

30 January 2016 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5806568

28 January 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5805654

13 October 2015 Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5741055

15 August 2011 COE-Dockside · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector Long Island Sound · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 4116135

19 February 2010 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3682394

1 January 2010 ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · PI Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 3657530

30 December 2009 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 3656942

3 January 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3124112

12 November 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3097364

6 November 2007 ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3093842

10 October 2006 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2797892

10 December 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2257299

18 November 2004 NPV Safety Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2238335

3 August 2004 ISPS II Exam · NPV Safety Exam

Physical examination · MSO CHARLESTON · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 2146801

2 August 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO CHARLESTON · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 2153458

29 July 2002 MARPOL Annex I Examination · Passenger/Freight Vessel Examination · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSO PUGET SOUND · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 1653961

7 November 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 294693

13 June 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 290878

31 October 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO PORTLAND, OREGON · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 283500

15 November 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 434670

12 November 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 422567

Deficiency record · 2

Operations/Management › Navigation Safety › Navigation Underway, General

Issued 1 January 2010 Resolved

2515 - The company has not provided the ship with written procedures for fuel changeover from HFO to MGO. Procedures should be provided. Address to the satisfaction of Class/Flag Administration. - ISM Part A, 10.3

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 2 January 2010
Resolved 19 February 2010
Resolution: M/V SPAR CETUS submitted transfer procedures for fuel changeover from HFO to MGO. Changeover procedures are not subject to class approval.

Documentation

Issued 15 November 1999 Resolved

oil transfer procedures incomplete. Have complete oil transfer procedyres prior to transfer and prior to return U.S.

Condition: Unknown
Due 15 November 1999
Resolved 15 November 1999

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.