PROSPECTOR

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

PROSPECTOR is a 1973 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 13 inspections since 2016, most recently in January 2025, along with 5 casualty investigations between 2010 and 2018.

Records from 2010 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 29 January 2025.

Built: 1973
Last inspected: 29 January 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 13
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 5 investigations · 2010–2018
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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 29 January 2025

Recorded inspections13

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded12

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2016–2025)

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

553717

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WDL7427

125714

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-125714

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)63.9 ft × 25.0 ft × 8.1 ft

Registered tonnagegross 86 / net 69

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMELVIN L CHRISTENSEN · PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES · built 1973

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portNEWPORT, OR

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 30 September 2025 · expires 31 October 2026

Service, as the file records itCommercial Fishing Vessel

Hull formunknown (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it69 - Simplified, Net Ton
86 - Simplified, Gross 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 · 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.

PATRIOT Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 1231747 · 29 June 2016 · activity 5924191

Inspection history · 13

29 January 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC DAVID DUREN (WPC 1156) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8072027

9 January 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ORCAS (WPB 1327) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7378324

24 August 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ACTIVE (WMEC 618) · Activity 7059307

8 September 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC CUTTYHUNK (WPB 1322) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6809575

30 January 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Yaquina Bay · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6618922

9 October 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Chetco River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6558779

9 October 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6559625

2 September 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Umpqua River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6530836

2 September 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6562708

8 August 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC CUTTYHUNK (WPB 1322) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6520131

31 July 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit New Bedford · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6496435

29 June 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 5924191

26 May 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Yaquina Bay · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 5888037

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

22 January 2010Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3815047

24 July 2015Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5197766

29 June 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5924191

2 September 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6562708

9 October 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6559625

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.