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Onboard Maintenance Checklist for Ships

by Jeffrey Viehmann, from the Community

This onboard maintenance checklist helps keep vessels safe and compliant. Verify certificates and documentation (USCG, minimum safe manning) and ensure nautical publications are current. Test radio and radar. Inspect navigation equipment, lifesaving gear, and firefighting systems. Confirm guards, alarms, and access ways are safe. Review pollution prevention per MARPOL, load line items, and engine room machinery. Check electrical boxes, wiring, batteries, and lighting for reliable operation.

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Onboard Maintenance Checklist
This onboard maintenance checklist helps maritime operators keep vessels compliant and seaworthy. It covers certificates and documentation, nautical publications, navigation equipment checks (depth sounder, compass, AIS, chart plotter, lights), lifesaving gear, firefighting equipment, and general safety items. It includes pollution prevention per MARPOL, load line considerations, machinery inspections (handrails, hydraulics, pumps, engine room), and electrical safety. Use it to standardize routine inspections and support USCG compliance across your fleet.
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Vessel Inspection Checklist
This comprehensive vessel inspection checklist helps crews and operators assess seaworthiness and compliance. It covers bridge documents and certifications, logbooks, radio and navigation systems, stability and mooring, crew training and PPE, lifesaving appliances, safe access and deck conditions, watertight integrity, machinery and electrical safety, lifting and towing gear, fire detection and firefighting equipment, pollution prevention (SOPEP), incident reporting and investigations, emergency procedures and drills, medical care and first aid readiness, crew accommodation, ventilation and lighting, housekeeping and waste management, sanitation, and galley hygiene with food storage and temperature checks.
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Onboard Maintenance Checklist

This onboard maintenance checklist helps maritime operators keep vessels compliant and seaworthy. It covers certificates and documentation, nautical publications, navigation equipment checks (depth sounder, compass, AIS, chart plotter, lights), lifesaving gear, firefighting equipment, and general safety items. It includes pollution prevention per MARPOL, load line considerations, machinery inspections (handrails, hydraulics, pumps, engine room), and electrical safety. Use it to standardize routine inspections and support USCG compliance across your fleet.

by Jeffrey Viehmann, from the Community

20+

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Vessel Condition Assessment Checklist

This Vessel Condition Assessment checklist supports annual maritime inspections led by a Port Captain. It guides a thorough review of credentials and records, navigation safety equipment, lifesaving gear, towline and terminal gear, pollution prevention, and firefighting systems. It also covers machinery and electrical systems, accommodation and construction requirements, and operational readiness in line with USCG and CFR standards, TSMS, VRP, AIS, and VGP requirements. Use it to document deficiencies, verify drills and crew rosters, and ensure towing vessels remain safe, compliant, and fit for service.

by Aaron Easterling, from the Community

30+

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PSC AMSA USCG Pre Arrival Preparation Checklist

This maritime checklist helps vessels prepare for Port State Control, AMSA and USCG inspections before arrival. It guides crews through bridge checks (charts, ECDIS, GMDSS, certificates, training, manning, records), steering gear tests, and deck readiness including firefighting systems, lifesaving appliances, pilot ladders and emergency lighting. Engine room items cover emergency pumps and generators, oily water separator, propulsion controls, alarms and spare parts. It reinforces documentation, drills, SOPEP, stability records and equipment servicing so ships meet regulatory standards and reduce deficiencies during inspections.

by Glen Klassen, from the Community

30+

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Template

Vessel Inspection Checklist

This comprehensive vessel inspection checklist helps crews and operators assess seaworthiness and compliance. It covers bridge documents and certifications, logbooks, radio and navigation systems, stability and mooring, crew training and PPE, lifesaving appliances, safe access and deck conditions, watertight integrity, machinery and electrical safety, lifting and towing gear, fire detection and firefighting equipment, pollution prevention (SOPEP), incident reporting and investigations, emergency procedures and drills, medical care and first aid readiness, crew accommodation, ventilation and lighting, housekeeping and waste management, sanitation, and galley hygiene with food storage and temperature checks.

by Belle Wei, from the Community

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Onboard Maintenance Checklist for Ships

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