SOUTHERN NIGHTS

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

SOUTHERN NIGHTS is a 1978 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2019, most recently in October 2023, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2021.

Records from 2019 to 2023. Most recent: inspection, 17 October 2023.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 17 October 2023
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2021
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 3 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 17 October 2023

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 4 calendar years (2019–2023)

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

600399

7939341

WDM2507

165469

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-165469

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)86.6 ft × 26.0 ft × 12.1 ft

Registered tonnagegross 189 / net 128

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderTECHE MARINE, INC. · BILOXI, MS, UNITED STATES · built 1978

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portLAFITTE, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery

DocumentationValid · issued 9 September 2025 · expires 30 September 2026

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 it189 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
128 - 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.

T-MO IV Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 68251 · 23 March 2021 · activity 7171000

Inspection history · 4

17 October 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Grand Isle · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7810915

27 August 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC HAWK (WPB 87355) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7548746

23 March 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7171000

4 March 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SAILFISH (WPB 87356) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6636835

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 · 1

23 March 2021Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 7171000

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.