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CHAO FA NO.6

CHAO FA NO.6 is a commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 1 inspection in 2020, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records in 2020. Most recent: inspection, 1 October 2020.

Built
Not recorded
Last inspected
1 October 2020
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

Identity

8539095
BJ4991
1032806
Flag
TAIWAN
Maury page id
psix-1032806

Inspections, by type

Years with a record 1 calendar year (2020)
The 1 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 6 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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 Fishing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it82 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
82 - Simplified, Gross Ton
36 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
36 - 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.

A report is not offered for this hull: Its Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.

Inspection history · 1

1 October 2020 PSC A · Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7069748

Deficiency record · 3

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Radio life-saving appliances
Issued 1 October 2020 Resolved
0672-Automatically activated Category 1 406 MHz EPIRB stowed in a manner so that it will float free if the vessel sinks. EPIRB stowed in the operating station of the vessel and will not float free of the vessel.46CFR 25.26-5 60c
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 2 October 2020
Resolution: EPIRB installed properly
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Maintenance of Life Saving Appliances
Issued 1 October 2020 Resolved
0699-Each life preserver, each marine buoyant device intended to be worn, and each buoyant vest must have a personal flotation device light that is approved under subpart 161.012 of this chapter. 6 life jacket lights need to be replaced. 46 CFR 25.25-13(b)60c
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 2 October 2020
Resolution: lights installed.
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Inflatable liferafts
Issued 1 October 2020 Resolved
0628-Life raft needs to be in the ready service condition. Life raft found totally unsecured. 46CFR%25.25-17, 60c
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 2 October 2020
Resolution: life raft secured.

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.