# Pearl Mist

- By: Dennis G. Jarvis
- Date: Taken on 31 July 2011, 10:30
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: DGJ_3798 - Pearl Mist - sits and waits...(interesting reading) Uploaded by X-Weinzar
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearl_Mist.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/c/cc/Pearl_Mist.jpg/1920px-Pearl_Mist.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Pearl Mist, picture taken at the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ship Information:

2010: Year Built

2011: Year Entered Fleet

Marshall Islands: Country of Registry

6,000 Tonnage

210 Passengers (Double Occupancy)

6 Passenger Decks

65 Number of Crew

2 Accessible Staterooms (all Categories)

In May 2009, the ship's sea trials ended with the line claiming that deficiencies had been uncovered that required the cancellation of its planned inaugural season. The rest of 2009 came and went. Ditto for 2010. Word filtered out that Pearl Seas was engaged in a dispute with Nova Scotia–based Irving Shipbuilding, which had designed and built the 210-passenger vessel. Now today, the Halifax Chronicle Herald (newspaper) is reporting that Pearl Seas is suing Irving for some $60 million, claiming that the U.S. Coast Guard and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (where the ship is registered) have identified violations of the international Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) standards, which set the safety bar for merchant ships from construction through continuing operation.

According to the lawsuit, Lloyd's Register, the ship's classification society (which inspects the…