PERCEPTION

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

PERCEPTION is a 1985 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2017, most recently in June 2026, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2003.

Records from 2003 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 30 June 2026.

Built: 1985
Last inspected: 30 June 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 8
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2003
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 30 June 2026

Recorded inspections8

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded7

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2017–2026)

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

678910

8417429

WTF9492

246798

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-246798

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)77.8 ft × 23.4 ft × 13.1 ft

Registered tonnagegross 153 / net 104

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)77.8 ft × 23.4 ft × 13.1 ft

ITC tonnagegross 169 / net 50

BuilderST AUGUSTINE TRAWLERS INC · ST AUGUSTINE, FL, UNITED STATES · built 1985

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW BEDFORD, MA

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 7 January 2026 · expires 28 February 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 it153 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
169 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
104 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
50 - 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 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.

Inspection history · 8

30 June 2026 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC John Patterson (WPC-1153) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8428269

17 June 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC HAMMERHEAD (WPB 87302) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7718155

4 April 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · USCG Northeast District (dp) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7662735

2 August 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Menemsha · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7523403

25 May 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Menemsha · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7459325

13 October 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC LAWRENCE O. LAWSON (WPC 1120) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6834126

13 August 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6512006

1 August 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SITKINAK (WPB 1329) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6229130

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

25 January 2003Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1743146

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

CAPTAIN SAM II (2003). 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.