KAUNANA

Research Vessel · Research Ship class · Built 1990s · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A)

KAUNANA is a 1994 research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2022, most recently in September 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2012 and 2024.

Records from 2012 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 26 September 2025.

Built: 1994
Last inspected: 26 September 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 5
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2012–2024
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 Research Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 26 September 2025

Recorded inspections5

…physical examinations3

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2022–2025)

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

1022089

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WDE5049

405391

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-405391

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)39.9 ft × 18.0 ft × 3.8 ft

Registered tonnagegross 11 / net 8

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderPEREGRINE MARINE INC · ANCHORAGE, AK, UNITED STATES · built 1994

Hull materialAluminum

PropulsionDiesel Outdrive

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationTwin Hull

Hailing portHONOLULU, HI

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 15 July 2025 · expires 31 July 2026

Service, as the file records itResearch Vessel

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

Tonnage as PSIX records it11 - Simplified, Gross Ton
8 - Simplified, 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

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 · 5

26 September 2025 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 8242039

24 September 2025 Uninspected Passenger Vessel

Physical examination · Sector Honolulu · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8240812

14 July 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Honolulu · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8185808

23 October 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Honolulu · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 8056960

11 August 2022 ORV Letter of Designation · Uninspected Passenger Vessel

Physical examination · Sector Honolulu · USCG Oceania District (CGD-O) · Activity 7537664

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

4 July 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4382896

23 October 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8056960

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

AMERICAN DISCOVERY (2012). 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.