BLUE SEA

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1980s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

BLUE SEA is a 1989 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2016, most recently in December 2025, along with 7 casualty investigations between 2009 and 2024.

Records from 2009 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 December 2025.

Built: 1989
Last inspected: 9 December 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 7 investigations · 2009–2024
Inspected with: 3 other vessels
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 inspections12

…with no type recorded12

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 8 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

948164

8854512

WDM9970

329883

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-329883

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)75.7 ft × 24.1 ft × 11.7 ft

Registered tonnagegross 157 / net 107

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderCANAVERAL SEAFOODS INC · PORT CANAVERAL, FL, UNITED STATES · built 1989

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEWPORT NEWS, VA

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 28 October 2025 · expires 30 November 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 it157 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
107 - 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 · 3

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.

HEATHER JOE Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 167522 · 4 October 2017 · activity 6284929 CHATHAM Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 161513 · 29 June 2017 · activity 6257146 BLUE HARVEST Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 172001 · 27 April 2016 · activity 6259840

Inspection history · 12

9 December 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ANGELA MCSHAN (WPC-1135) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8280277

22 November 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC John Patterson (WPC-1153) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8272923

7 July 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8024171

22 July 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7516193

28 April 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SPENCER (WMEC 905) · Activity 7192113

26 June 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC HAWK (WPB 87355) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6726050

8 November 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC LAWRENCE O. LAWSON (WPC 1120) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6578043

4 October 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6284929

29 June 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit New Bedford · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6257146

22 June 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SHRIKE (WPB 87342) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6188813

26 May 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SITKINAK (WPB 1329) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5893350

27 April 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6259840

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 · 7

8 January 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3392593

12 November 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3635290

27 April 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6259840

29 June 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6257146

4 October 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6284929

22 July 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7516193

7 July 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8024171

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

LAUREN & MATTHEW (2009). 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.