WRECK EXPRESS

Passenger (Inspected) · Passenger Ship class · Built 1980s · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL)

WRECK EXPRESS is a 1984 passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 18 inspections since 2016, most recently in May 2025, along with 8 deficiencies and 1 casualty investigation in 2006.

Records from 2006 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 13 May 2025.

Built: 1984
Last inspected: 13 May 2025
Documentation: Expired · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 18
Deficiencies: 8 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2006
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 Passenger Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 13 May 2025

Recorded inspections18

…physical examinations15

…administrative events3

Deficiencies 8 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 10 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

961358

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WDF8228

345975

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-345975

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)38.0 ft × 12.4 ft × 5.6 ft

Registered tonnagegross 17 / net 14

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderDELTA BOAT WORKS INC · CAPE CANAVERAL, FL, UNITED STATES · built 1984

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionDiesel Direct

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portMUNISING, MI

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Recreational, Registry

DocumentationExpired · issued 30 June 2004

Service, as the file records itPassenger (Inspected)

Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it14 - Simplified, Net Ton
17 - Simplified, 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

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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Inspection history · 18

13 May 2025 Hull Examination · Internal Structural Exam · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 8148014

5 June 2024 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7966657

15 June 2023 Administrative Inspection · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7744998

7 June 2022 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7485032

24 June 2021 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7248541

16 July 2020 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7007483

1 July 2020 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6992484

3 June 2020 Examination of Repairs · Hull Examination

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6986258

3 April 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6934925

2 October 2019 DAPI Audit · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6825418

13 September 2019 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6860854

2 July 2019 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6736935

17 September 2018 Annual Inspection · DAPI Audit

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6543353

21 September 2017 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Detached Duty Office Myrtle Beach · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6271898

19 September 2017 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6272445

27 September 2016 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6016175

17 August 2016 DAPI Audit

Administrative · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6047373

9 May 2016 Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 5896081

Deficiency record · 8

05 - Radio Communications › N/A - No Subsystem › Satellite EPIRB 406MHz/1.6GHz

Issued 7 June 2022 Resolved

Hydrostatic release expired.

Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 7 July 2022
Resolved 6 July 2022
Resolution: Corrected.

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Gauges, thermometers, etc

Issued 7 June 2022 Resolved

Oil pressure gauge at upper operating station inoperable.

Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 7 July 2022
Resolved 6 July 2022
Resolution: Corrected.

05 - Radio Communications › N/A - No Subsystem › Satellite EPIRB 406MHz/1.6GHz

Issued 1 July 2020 Resolved

Hydrostatic release on EPIRB is expired. Replace hydrostatic release to the satisfaction of the Coast Guard MI.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 21 July 2020
Resolved 16 July 2020
Resolution: Replaced.

10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Lights, shapes, sound-signals

Issued 1 July 2020 Resolved

Anchor light is extinguished.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 21 July 2020
Resolved 16 July 2020
Resolution: Corrected.

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Propulsion main engine

Issued 13 September 2019 Resolved

Port main diesel engine (MDE) removed & installed in another company vessel. Replace and demonstrate proper operation of the port MDE prior to the carriage of passengers.

Action required: 701 - Prior to carriage of passengers/cargo
Due 13 September 2019
Resolved 7 July 2020
Resolution: Corrected.

07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire fighting equipment and appliances

Issued 17 September 2018 Resolved

Provide properly serviced & mounted 10-B:C PFE at the operating station.

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 1 October 2018
Resolved 2 July 2019
Resolution: corrected.

Accommodation/Occupational Safety › Medical/First Aid › Medicine Chest

Issued 19 September 2017 Resolved

First aid kit lacking list of contents. First aid kit has expired items.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 19 October 2017
Resolved 11 October 2017
Resolution: List and updated contents provided.

Lifesaving › Lifefloat › Float-free Link

Issued 27 September 2016 Resolved

Properly re-route float free weak link and attached line.

Action required: 701 - Prior to carriage of passengers/cargo
Due 27 September 2016
Resolved 27 September 2016
Resolution: Completed.

Casualty record · 1

3 October 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2798471

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

BLUE WATER EXPRESS (2006). 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.