MIDNIGHT SUN

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

MIDNIGHT SUN is a 1972 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2020, most recently in May 2026, along with 4 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2026.

Records from 2013 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 17 May 2026.

Built: 1972
Last inspected: 17 May 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 4 investigations · 2013–2026
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 17 May 2026

Recorded inspections7

…with no type recorded7

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2020–2026)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

544027

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WDH7976

118000

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-118000

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)41.9 ft × 14.6 ft × 6.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 24 / net 16

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderTHOMPSON TRAWLERS INC · TITUSVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES · built 1972

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portMADEIRA BEACH, FL

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 10 January 2026 · expires 28 February 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)

Tonnage as PSIX records it24 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
16 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 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.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 2016 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 2

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

STAR CHIEF Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 124391 · 17 May 2026 · activity 8376408 MICHELLE MARIE Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 112911 · 16 May 2025 · activity 8167924

Inspection history · 7

17 May 2026 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8376408

16 May 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8167924

16 April 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC CROCODILE (WPB 87369) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7952769

8 June 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7712892

16 November 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SHRIKE (WPB 87342) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7360366

8 March 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC NORTHLAND (WMEC 904) · Activity 7153024

6 January 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC DAUNTLESS (WMEC 624) · Activity 6888712

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 4

31 July 2013Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 4670277

8 June 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 7712892

16 May 2025Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 8167924

17 May 2026Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8376408

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. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

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.