JOHN S. DEMPSTER JR

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1940s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

JOHN S. DEMPSTER JR is a 1944 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2017, most recently in February 2019, along with 5 casualty investigations between 2011 and 2018.

Records from 2011 to 2019. Most recent: inspection, 1 February 2019.

Built: 1944
Last inspected: 1 February 2019
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 5 investigations · 2011–2018
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 7 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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 1 February 2019

Recorded inspections4

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2017–2019)

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

547685

7437472

WYZ9563

120894

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-120894

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it368 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
542 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross 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.

Vessel history report

A report is not offered for this hull. Its record holds only 2 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 1

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.

SMUGGLER'S POINT Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 209668 · 25 October 2018 · activity 6580776

Inspection history · 4

1 February 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6633343

25 October 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6580776

12 October 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6560968

28 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6244468

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 · 5

9 February 2011Routine · role: Suspected Pollution Source · activity 3950968

12 July 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 dead · activity 4085965

23 August 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 4131152

12 October 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6560968

25 October 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 6580776

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.