BALLAD

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

BALLAD is a 1978 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2017, most recently in June 2024, along with 5 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2017.

Records from 2005 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 25 June 2024.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 25 June 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 5 investigations · 2005–2017
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 25 June 2024

Recorded inspections3

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2017–2024)

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

590537

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WCX4936

156692

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-156692

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)56.2 ft × 19.7 ft × 9.9 ft

Registered tonnagegross 71 / net 48

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderFREEMAN HOWARD INC · WEDDERBURN, OR, UNITED STATES · built 1978

Hull materialAluminum

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portPORTLAND, OR

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 22 May 2026 · expires 31 May 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 it71 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
48 - 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

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.

STAR KING Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 183518 · 7 January 2017 · activity 6068118

Inspection history · 3

25 June 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7943171

26 May 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Ketchikan · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 6434469

7 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6068118

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

5 February 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4308539

3 December 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 dead · activity 3644393

12 January 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 3945800

26 October 2015Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5750898

7 January 2017Routine · role: Sighted in Area · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 6068118

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.