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FIRST VENTURE

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named FIRST VENTURE

FIRST VENTURE is a 1979 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 1994, most recently in September 2001, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2001.

Records from 1994 to 2001. Most recent: inspection, 5 September 2001.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 5 September 2001
Documentation: Expired · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2001
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

Identity

605422

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169930

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-169930

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1994–2001)

The 3 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 25 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1972.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)33.8 ft × 12.7 ft × 3.9 ft

Registered tonnagegross 14 / net 11

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMARVIN E SEXTON · PALACIOS, TX, UNITED STATES · built 1979

Hull materialWood

PropulsionNot recorded

Hull shapeNot recorded

Hull configurationNot recorded

Hailing portHOUSTON, TX

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationExpired · issued 3 July 2002 · expires 31 July 2003

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 it11 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
14 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton

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

Radio station licence

No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of 6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.

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. Reports.

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.

CAPT. RANDY Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 122836 · 17 December 1994 · activity 27180 MISS KIMBERLY Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 178020 · 17 December 1994 · activity 27180

Inspection history · 3

5 September 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 21074

5 September 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1769844

17 December 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO PORT ARTHUR · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 27180

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

5 September 2001Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · 1 injured · activity 1769844

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.