FORTRESS

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1940s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

FORTRESS is a 1944 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2017, most recently in April 2024.

Records from 2017 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 3 April 2024.

Built: 1944
Last inspected: 3 April 2024
Documentation: Expired · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

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 3 April 2024

Recorded inspections4

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2017–2024)

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

246409

—

WDK8658

62250

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-62250

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)63.6 ft × 19.0 ft × 8.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 73 / net 39

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderKIRKLAND MARINE CONST CO · KIRKLAND WA, UNITED STATES · built 1944

Hull materialWood

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEWPORT, OR

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry

DocumentationExpired · issued 30 June 2004

Service, as the file records itCommercial Fishing Vessel

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

Tonnage as PSIX records it73 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
39 - 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 0 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 · 4

3 April 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7889625

27 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BLUE SHARK (WPB 87360) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6420906

27 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BLUE SHARK (WPB 87360) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6436977

13 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC CUTTYHUNK (WPB 1322) · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6078864

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.