NORTHERN DEFENDER

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A)

NORTHERN DEFENDER is a 1979 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2017, most recently in August 2024, along with 4 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2024.

Records from 2013 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 15 August 2024.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 15 August 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: 4 investigations · 2013–2024
Also recorded as: 1 other name

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 15 August 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

610393

7934250

WDB4700

174494

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-174494

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)134.3 ft × 32.0 ft × 13.8 ft

Registered tonnagegross 180 / net 122

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)134.3 ft × 32.0 ft × 13.8 ft

ITC tonnagegross 462 / net 139

BuilderDAKOTA CREEK INDUSTRIES · ANACORTES, WA, UNITED STATES · built 1979

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portDUTCH HARBOR, AK

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 17 March 2026 · expires 30 April 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 it180 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
462 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
122 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
139 - Convention (Subpart B), 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 1 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.

Inspection history · 3

15 August 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 7986394

15 June 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 7229224

12 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC JOHN MIDGETT (WHEC 726) · Activity 6226893

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 · 4

7 May 2013Routine · role: Acknowledged Pollution Source · activity 4585774

3 June 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4878908

15 June 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 7229224

15 August 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7986394

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.

Recorded names · 1

MORNING STAR (2013–2014). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.