MV Malaspina

No AIS position on record for this vessel. Identity and particulars are below.

Identity & particulars

Name

MV Malaspina

IMO numberWhat is an IMO number?

5218183

MMSIWhat is an MMSI?

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Call signWhat is a call sign?

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Flag

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Vessel type

Ferry

Gross tonnageGross tonnage vs deadweight

9,121

Length overall

124 m

Beam

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Year built

1963

Passengers (maximum)

WikidataSource: Wikidata, record Q6719795. Added to Seadar on September 23, 2026. Licence: CC0 1.0.450

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Incidents & investigations Authority-reported

Accident and incident reports by national investigation boards, and casualty warnings, that concern this ship. Each links to the original.

• Occurred Feb 7, 2012ACC · PassengerNTSB marine investigations (CAROL)Ketchikan, AK, USA

  Malaspina, Ketchikan, AK, USA (NTSB DCA12LM009)Report published Feb 3, 2013

  The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the fire on board the passenger vessel Malaspina was the failure of the shoreside work crew and fire watch to ensure that proper cooling had occurred before leaving the area where the repair work was conducted. Contributing to the accident was the work crew's improper use and application of a welding curtain, placed hor

About MV Malaspina

MV Malaspina, colloquially known as the Mal, is a mainline ROPAX ferry and the original Malaspina-class vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Malaspina is named after the Malaspina Glacier, which, in turn, is named after Captain Don Alessandro Malaspina, an Italian navigator and explorer who explored the northwest coast of North America in 1791. Malaspina is nearly identical to her sister ship, MV Matanuska. Malaspina was designed by Philip F. Spaulding and Associates, constructed in 1963 at the Lockheed Shipbuilding yards in Seattle, Washington, and elongated in 1972 at the Willamette Iron and Steel Company in Portland, Oregon.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is MV Malaspina now?

Seadar has no displayable AIS position for MV Malaspina in this profile. A coverage gap does not establish whether the ship is transmitting or where it is now.

What kind of ship is MV Malaspina?

MV Malaspina is a ferry, built in 1963 by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The vessel is 124 m long and has a gross tonnage of 9,121.

What sanctions and inspection records does Seadar hold for MV Malaspina?

Seadar has no matched sanctions record displayed for MV Malaspina from the OFAC SDN list, the UK Sanctions List, the Canadian autonomous sanctions list, the EU list of designated vessels and the New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register. Coverage may be incomplete; this is not sanctions clearance. No matched inspection records are displayed for MV Malaspina. Missing records do not establish whether the ship has been detained.

Sister ships

Likely sister ships: built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, same type, gross tonnage within 2.5% and length within 1.5% of this ship's.Inferred by SeadarInferred by Seadar from sourced builder records: same yard, same or compatible ship type, near-identical gross tonnage and length, built within 12 years. Hull series usually match on all of these, but this is not a confirmed ship class.Version seadar.sister_ships.yard v1

• IMO 5228827IMO 5228827Ferry · built 1963 · 9,214 GT