BRISTOL EXPLORER

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1980s · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A)

BRISTOL EXPLORER is a 1982 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2016, most recently in June 2025, along with 6 casualty investigations between 1992 and 2025.

Records from 1992 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 16 June 2025.

Built: 1982
Last inspected: 16 June 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 6 investigations · 1992–2025
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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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 16 June 2025

Recorded inspections6

…with no type recorded6

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 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

647985

8030647

WCZ9010

53965

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-53965

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)166.0 ft × 40.0 ft × 14.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 296 / net 201

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)166.0 ft × 40.0 ft × 14.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 727 / net 218

BuilderHALTER MARINE INC · MOSS POINT, MS, UNITED STATES · built 1982

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portSEATTLE, WA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 7 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 it296 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
727 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
201 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
218 - 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.

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Detail on this page

6 inspections, each with its date, unit and type; 1 vessel inspected with it, by name and date; 6 casualty investigations, with date and classification; the documentation record: dimensions, tonnage, builder, hailing port, endorsements, dates. The counts in the summary above are the same counts, and they are free.

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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.

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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.

PACIFIC EXPLORER Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 245247 · 16 June 2025 · activity 8167629

Inspection history · 6

16 June 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 8167629

29 January 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC STRATTON (WMSL 752) · Activity 7857664

22 February 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC JOHN MIDGETT (WHEC 726) · Activity 6632709

30 March 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCG WMSL Crew Charlie - Alameda · Activity 6417157

25 February 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 6098112

29 January 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Dutch Harbor · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5822315

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 · 6

1 March 1992Major Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 185692

24 June 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3248045

10 June 2010Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 3902775

29 January 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5822315

25 February 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6098112

16 June 2025Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 8167629

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

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