PALMETTO

Research Vessel · Research Ship class · Built 1980s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

PALMETTO is a 1982 research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2016, most recently in July 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2010.

Records from 2010 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 July 2025.

Built: 1982
Last inspected: 9 July 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2010

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 9 July 2025

Recorded inspections2

…administrative events2

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2016–2025)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 2016 and 2025, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 2016–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

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

645736

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WRA8466

53760

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-53760

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)98.8 ft × 26.0 ft × 7.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 98 / net 67

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderCOLLIER SHIPBUILDING INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 1982

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portCHARLESTON, SC

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 10 April 2026 · expires 31 May 2027

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 it98 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
67 - 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

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 · 2

9 July 2025 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8180529

30 August 2016 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5999613

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

25 August 2010Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 3833893

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.

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.