FREE BIRD is a 1972 commercial fishing vessel in the Coast Guard’s documentation file, Valid as of 10 September 2026. No Coast Guard inspection is recorded for this vessel. Most US commercial vessels are not subject to inspection, and the absence of an inspection record is not evidence of anything about the hull. 1 casualty investigation in 2006 names it.
Documentation
Valid · issued 8 July 2026 · expires 31 July 2027 · file of 10 September 2026
Documentation file of 10 September 2026, the National Vessel Documentation Center’s record as served by NOAA Fisheries, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. The Coast Guard’s inspection record (PSIX, every class, through 13 September 2026) holds no activity for it. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard.
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No Coast Guard inspection is recorded for this vessel. Maury holds every hull on the Coast Guard’s
inspection record, every class back to 1972, and this Official Number is not among them
as of 13 September 2026. Most US commercial vessels are not subject to inspection; absence of an
inspection record is not evidence of anything about the hull. If an inspection is recorded later, this page
becomes an inspection record and says so.
20 December 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 2843744
Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR.
Documentation record
Registered dimensions (L × B × D)36.0 ft × 11.0 ft × 3.3 ft
Registered tonnagegross 8 / net 7
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderJARVIS NEWMAN INC · SOUTHWEST HARBOR, ME, UNITED STATES · built 1972
Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)
PropulsionDiesel
Hull shapeShip
Hull configurationMonohull
Hailing portSURRY, ME
Trade endorsementsFishery
DocumentationValid · issued 8 July 2026 · expires 31 July 2027
Service, as the file records itCommercial Fishing Vessel
Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.
Ownership record
The Coast Guard’s Abstract of Title for this hull — its owners and liens as filed —
is the only ownership record that exists for a hull with no inspection record. 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.
A report is not offered for this hull: it has no inspection record to report. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.
