VITAL SPARK is a 1990 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2005, most recently in August 2021, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2011 and 2021.
Records from 2005 to 2021. Most recent: inspection, 21 August 2021.
The 9 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US
Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not
years in service. What Maury does not do.
This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 5 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1972.
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Documentation record
Registered dimensions (L × B × D)43.5 ft × 14.3 ft × 9.3 ft
Registered tonnagegross 38 / net 31
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderROBERT JAMES SMITH · NOANK, CT, UNITED STATES · built 1990
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel
Hull shapeShip
Hull configurationMonohull
Hailing portPOINT JUDITH, RI
Trade endorsementsFishery
DocumentationValid · issued 20 April 2026 · expires 30 April 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 it38 - Simplified, Gross Ton 31 - Simplified, Net Ton
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 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.
Radio station licence
No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of
6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.
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. Reports.
Inspection history · 9
21 August 2021Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7351784
4 January 2021Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC STEELHEAD (WPB 87324) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7128330
24 May 2016Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC KEY LARGO (WPB 1324) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5894762
23 October 2015Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC ALBACORE (WPB 87309) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5788310
14 July 2011Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCG Northeast District (dpi) F/V 4100 Processing · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 4080802
16 April 2008Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station New London · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3189614
7 May 2007Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC MORRO BAY (WTGB 106) · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 2928768
13 January 2007Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC RIDLEY (WPB 87328) · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 2855206
29 May 2005Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC CHINOOK (WPB 87308) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2383952
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.
14 June 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4044832
21 August 2021Routine · role: Subject of Search and Rescue · activity 7351784
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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.
Recorded names · 1
SANDRA AND MICHELLE (2011). 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.
