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NORTHERN EXPLORER

NORTHERN EXPLORER is a 1998 research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections in 2016, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records in 2016. Most recent: inspection, 24 March 2016.

Built
1998
Last inspected
24 March 2016
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

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 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 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 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 24 March 2016
…with no type recorded1
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 1 calendar year (2016)
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

8606460
486973
Flag
SOVIET UNION
Maury page id
psix-486973

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it1987 - Dead Weight, Ton
3072 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
3072 - Displacement, Ton
922 - Convention (Subpart B), Net 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 Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 2

24 March 2016 PII Safety Exam · Deficiency Check · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5833657
24 March 2016 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5839879

Deficiency record · 3

Documentation › Certificates/Documents › IOPP Certificate
Issued 24 March 2016 Resolved
IOPP supplement reflected incinerator on board vessel could burn sludge, incinerator is not set up to burn sludge.
Condition: Invalid
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 28 March 2016
Resolved 25 March 2016
Resolution: IOPP reissued by class with proper info.
Engineering › Fuel Oil Storage/Transfer System › Valve
Issued 24 March 2016 Resolved
#3 quick closing valve to the port side day tank was tested and found inoperable
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 28 March 2016
Resolved 25 March 2016
Engineering › Fuel Oil Storage/Transfer System › Gauge
Issued 24 March 2016 Resolved
Hold back devices were placed on self-closing valves used to sound tanks
Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 24 March 2016
Resolved 24 March 2016
Resolution: corrected on the spot

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.