CHIEF ARROW

Passenger (Inspected) · Passenger Ship class · Built 1980s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

CHIEF ARROW is a 1981 passenger vessel (inspected). The Coast Guard has recorded 19 inspections since 2016, most recently in September 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 casualty investigations between 2001 and 2006.

Records from 2001 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 29 September 2025.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 29 September 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 19
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2001–2006
Also recorded as: 2 other names

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 29 September 2025

Recorded inspections19

…physical examinations16

…administrative events3

Deficiencies 1 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

642340

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WDI3730

53441

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-53441

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)74.5 ft × 18.5 ft × 8.3 ft

Registered tonnagegross 83 / net 57

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderCAMCRAFT INC · JEAN LAFITTE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 1981

Hull materialAluminum

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portPORT ANGELES, WA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 12 June 2026 · expires 31 July 2027

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 it83 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
57 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), 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

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 · 19

29 September 2025 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8239976

24 June 2025 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8166678

27 December 2024 Internal Structural Exam · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8050152

11 September 2024 Examination of Repairs

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8012840

12 December 2023 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7844750

22 June 2023 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7721255

27 December 2022 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7613584

20 December 2021 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7367945

22 June 2021 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7236009

15 September 2020 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7058049

24 June 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6987855

18 December 2019 Annual Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6875809

25 June 2019 Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6719978

3 December 2018 Internal Structural Exam · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6591481

23 February 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Navigation Center · Activity 6360377

21 February 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6358798

13 December 2017 Internal Structural Exam · DAPI Audit · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6322647

6 June 2017 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6163330

30 November 2016 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6109298

Deficiency record · 1

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Rigid liferafts

Issued 26 June 2020 Resolved

Small passenger vessels must meet the survival craft requirements of 46 CFR 180.200. While operating with one (01) 30 person Inflatable Buoyant Apparatus (IBA) the vessel is limited to the following passenger capacities: LAKES, BAYS, AND SOUNDS ROUTE: 52 total persons allowed; COASTWISE: 30 Total persons allowed.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 26 June 2020
Resolved 26 June 2020
Resolution: Vessel has augmented PAX capacities - 9SEP20: Vessel placed 50 PAX IBA back on board. Cleared deficiency.

Casualty record · 2

24 August 2001Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 20115

25 July 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 2726239

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 · 2

AMELIA EARHART (2001), GULF DREAM (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.