CAPE HATTERAS

Research Vessel · Research Ship class · Built 1980s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

CAPE HATTERAS is a 1981 research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2017, most recently in May 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2017 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 1 May 2025.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 1 May 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

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 Research Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 1 May 2025

Recorded inspections6

…physical examinations3

…administrative events3

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2017–2025)

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

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8023541

WDH2897

249531

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-249531

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it473 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
294 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

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 · 6

1 May 2025 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8126783

11 May 2023 ORV Letter of Designation · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7685758

13 May 2021 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check · ORV Letter of Designation

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7195759

24 June 2019 Deficiency Check · Administrative Inspection · ORV Letter of Designation

Physical examination · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6724234

13 August 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Navigation Center · Activity 6510928

6 July 2017 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6199225

Deficiency record · 1

10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Automatic Identification System (AIS)

Issued 13 August 2018 Resolved

The vessel is currently broadcasting (1) Name that does not correspond to current FCC registration.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 13 September 2018
Resolved 20 August 2019
Resolution: Corrected and verified on NavCen wesite.

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.