RITTER BROS

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1940s · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL)

RITTER BROS is a 1944 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2022, most recently in April 2023, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2022.

Records from 2022 to 2023. Most recent: inspection, 29 April 2023.

Built: 1944
Last inspected: 29 April 2023
Documentation: Expired · 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 · 2022
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 3 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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 29 April 2023

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2022–2023)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 2022 and 2023, 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

247127

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WCV7606

62408

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-62408

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)44.4 ft × 13.2 ft × 5.4 ft

Registered tonnagegross 30 / net 20

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderKAHLENBERG BROS COI · MANITOWOC, WI, UNITED STATES · built 1944

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portHANCOCK, MI

Trade endorsementsFishery

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 it30 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
20 - 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 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 · 3

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.

KATHERINE Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 67295 · 29 April 2023 · activity 7685957 KATHY Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 96031 · 29 April 2023 · activity 7685957 FIRST CATCH Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 1387792 · 29 April 2023 · activity 7685957

Inspection history · 2

29 April 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Duluth · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7685957

5 April 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Duluth · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7426525

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

5 April 2022Routine · role: Acknowledged Pollution Source · activity 7426525

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.