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PERCEPTION

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

PERCEPTION is a 1985 passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections in 2019, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2009.

Records from 2009 to 2019. Most recent: inspection, 2 August 2019.

Built: 1985
Last inspected: 2 August 2019
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2009

Identity

1120834

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38989

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-38989

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations3

…administrative events1

Years with a record 1 calendar year (2019)

The 4 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 7 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 Passenger Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 1977.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)50.0 ft × 13.3 ft × 6.3 ft

Registered tonnagegross 20 / net 18

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderB SULLIVAN/M D BENTLEY · HOWICK, NEW ZEALAND · built 1985

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionAuxiliary Sail

Hull shapeSail (Distinct Keel)

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portCHICAGO, IL

Trade endorsementsRecreational

DocumentationValid · issued 27 May 2025 · expires 30 June 2030

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 it18 - Simplified, Net Ton
20 - Simplified, Gross 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 Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.

Inspection history · 4

2 August 2019 Attraction Vessel Exam

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6789119

18 July 2019 Attraction Vessel Exam

Physical examination · Sector Detroit · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6758607

25 June 2019 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6725246

10 May 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6689116

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 · 1

6 September 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3589036

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.

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.