THE PRINCIPAL

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

THE PRINCIPAL is a 2001 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2018, most recently in December 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2001 and 2025.

Records from 2001 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 December 2025.

Built: 2001
Last inspected: 9 December 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2001–2025
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 9 December 2025

Recorded inspections4

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2018–2025)

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

1111829

8969496

WDC8797

26753

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-26753

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)88.4 ft × 25.0 ft × 12.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 171 / net 51

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)88.4 ft × 25.0 ft × 12.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 171 / net 51

BuilderB & B BOATBUILDERS, INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 2001

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Direct

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portPORT LAVACA, TX

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 29 August 2025 · expires 31 August 2026

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 it51 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
171 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross 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 · 4

9 December 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8281837

25 January 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Port OConnor · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7627298

29 August 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC JACOB POROO (WPC 1125) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6802084

8 September 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC TIGER SHARK (WPB 87359) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6535979

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

8 December 2001Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1482762

9 December 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 8281837

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

MISS DIANNE I (2001). 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.