BLACK SHEEP

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1980s · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE)

BLACK SHEEP is a 1980 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2016, most recently in April 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2017 and 2025.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 6 April 2025.

Built: 1980
Last inspected: 6 April 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2017–2025
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 6 April 2025

Recorded inspections9

…with no type recorded9

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 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

622003

8036940

WDA6358

185088

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-185088

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)71.2 ft × 22.1 ft × 11.2 ft

Registered tonnagegross 113 / net 77

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderLAFORCE SHIPYARD INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 1980

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portPT JUDITH, RI

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 7 January 2026 · expires 31 January 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 it113 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
77 - 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

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.

EXCALIBUR Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 171742 · 11 August 2017 · activity 6237361

Inspection history · 9

6 April 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit New Bedford · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8117727

5 December 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Point Judith · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7362653

24 September 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC FORWARD (WMEC 911) · Activity 7067603

21 December 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SANIBEL (WPB 1312) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6877849

2 October 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC STEELHEAD (WPB 87324) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6826798

10 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ALBACORE (WPB 87309) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6336822

11 August 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6237361

18 May 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC TIGER SHARK (WPB 87359) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6154288

2 November 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ALBACORE (WPB 87309) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6034490

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 · 2

11 August 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 6237361

6 April 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8117727

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.