SWALLOW ACE

Freight Ship · Ro-Ro Cargo Ship class · Built 2000s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

SWALLOW ACE is a 2007 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 11 inspections since 2016, most recently in April 2025, along with 4 deficiencies.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 22 April 2025.

Built: 2007
Last inspected: 22 April 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 11
Deficiencies: 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

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 Ro-Ro Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 22 April 2025

Recorded inspections11

…physical examinations7

…administrative events4

Deficiencies 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 8 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

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9338620

7KNF

933024

Flag

JAPAN

Maury page id

psix-933024

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it58685 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
18167 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
34063 - Displacement, Ton
18864 - Dead Weight, Ton
58685 - Simplified, Gross Ton
18167 - Simplified, 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 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 11

22 April 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector San Diego · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8116536

18 April 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8112221

24 April 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Savannah · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7674869

10 December 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7607125

28 March 2021 PSC B

Physical examination · U.S. COAST GUARD FORCES MICRONESIA/SECTOR GUAM · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7161105

12 April 2019 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6660983

30 March 2018 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6381699

10 March 2017 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6102442

1 March 2017 Random ISPS/MTSA/PSC · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6096805

24 February 2017 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6094113

8 July 2016 ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5929128

Deficiency record · 4

Documentation › Certificates/Documents › IOPP Certificate

Issued 30 March 2018 Resolved

MARPOL 73/78 ANNEX 1/9 (17a): The IOPP certificate shall be drawn up in the form corresponding to the model given in appendix II to this annex. Means for retention and disposal of oil residues and oily bilge water holding tanks, oily bilge water holding tanks are not required by the convention; if such such tanks are provided they shall be listed in table 3.3. Bilge "primary tank" is not listed on the IOPP.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 2 April 2018
Resolution: resolved to satisfaction of class

Documentation › Logs/Records › Oil Record Book

Issued 30 March 2018 Resolved

MARPOL 73/78 ANNEX 1/17.1 (17a): Every oil tanker of 150 gross tons and every other ship of 400 gross tons and above shall be provided with an oil record book part 1. When marking entries in the ORB part 1, the date, operational code and item number shall be logged. Bilge "primary tank" is not being accounted for in ORB.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 2 April 2018
Resolution: resolved to satisfaction of class.

Operations/Management › Bilge/Bilge System Management › Control of Oil Mixtures

Issued 30 March 2018 Resolved

74 SOLAS (04) IX/3.1 --- ISM Code Part A7 (17a): The company should establish procedures and instructions including checklists as appropriate, for key shipboard operations concerning the safety of personnel, ship and proctection of the environment. The various tasks should be defined and assigned to qualified personnel. Shipboard personnel are conducting oily water transfers from the bilge into a holding tank utilizing portable pumps not in accordance with the SMS.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 2 April 2018
Resolution: resolved to satisfaction of class.

Fire Fighting › Portable CO2 Fire Extinguisher › Service

Issued 2 March 2017 Resolved

2550 - The safety-management system shall be maintained in accordance with provisions of the international safety management code. Ship's crew did not conduct required fire extinguisher inspections as per established safety management system. 16c

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 16 March 2017
Resolved 10 March 2017
Resolution: Received documents from the vessel attesting to the proper maintenance and inspections of portable fire extinguishers.

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.