GUIDING LIGHT IV

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1990s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

GUIDING LIGHT IV is a 1997 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2017, most recently in May 2026.

Records from 2017 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 21 May 2026.

Built: 1997
Last inspected: 21 May 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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 21 May 2026

Recorded inspections7

…with no type recorded7

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2017–2026)

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

1050022

8941157

WDL9996

451431

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-451431

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)81.6 ft × 24.0 ft × 12.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 149 / net 44

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)81.6 ft × 24.0 ft × 12.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 149 / net 44

BuilderMASTER BOAT BULDERS INC · CODEN, AL, UNITED STATES · built 1997

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portLAFAYETTE, LA

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 30 January 2026 · expires 31 January 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 it149 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
44 - Convention (Subpart B), 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 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 1

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.

NEW PELICAN Passenger (Inspected) · MISLE 48980 · 21 July 2017 · activity 6228405

Inspection history · 7

21 May 2026 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8378073

25 November 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · CGC AMBERJACK (WPB-87315) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7829792

12 April 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Port OConnor · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7668113

18 May 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Grand Isle · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7200668

6 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC DANIEL TARR (WPC-1136) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7144904

21 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Port Aransas · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6216576

21 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6228405

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.

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.