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DEFENDER

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 2000s · Other hulls named DEFENDER

DEFENDER is a 2006 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 16 inspections since 2007, most recently in February 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 3 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2018.

Records from 2007 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 26 February 2025.

Built
2006
Last inspected
26 February 2025
Documentation
Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections
16
Deficiencies
1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date
Casualties
3 investigations · 2013–2018
Inspected with
1 other vessel
Also recorded as
1 other name

Identity

US Official No.
1194562
IMO number
9095008 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here
Call sign
WDI6812
MISLE id
868385
Flag
UNITED STATES
MMSI
367722480
Maury page id
psix-868385

Inspections, by type

…administrative events1
…with no type recorded15
Years with a record 10 calendar years (2007–2025)
The 16 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1972.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)154.9 ft × 40.0 ft × 23.5 ft
Registered tonnagegross 490 / net 333
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)154.9 ft × 40.0 ft × 23.5 ft
ITC tonnagegross 1,370 / net 436
BuilderBOCONCO INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 2006
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel
Hull shapeNot recorded
Hull configurationNot recorded
Hailing portDUTCH HARBOR, AK
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Fishery, Registry
DocumentationValid · issued 28 January 2026 · expires 28 February 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 it1370 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
490 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
436 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
333 - 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 September 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.

Radio station licence

WDI6812MMSI 367722480 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 30 December 2025, expires 22 March 2036
WDD5460MMSI 367158720 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 5 January 2007, cancelled 11 March 2017
FCC Universal Licensing System ship-station file of 6 September 2026, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. Status and dates are the file’s own. The licensee is not read from the file and is not shown. A lapsed licence’s MMSI is still the number the vessel transmitted under while it was valid.

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.

TB 451 Tank Barge · MISLE 720506 · 8 January 2010 · activity 3660981

Inspection history · 16

26 February 2025 Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC ALEX HALEY (WMEC 39) · Activity 8088123
18 January 2023 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Dutch Harbor · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 7627632
12 June 2020 Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC MELLON (WHEC 717) · Activity 6998893
29 August 2018 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Navigation Center · Activity 6526639
26 January 2018 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 6352933
8 November 2017 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 6312179
17 June 2017 Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC JOHN MIDGETT (WHEC 726) · Activity 6181899
15 June 2016 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 5908784
11 May 2014 Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC VIGOROUS (WMEC 627) · Activity 4855979
15 September 2010 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3850261
27 January 2010 Type not recorded
No type recorded · USCGC BAINBRIDGE ISLAND (WPB 1343) · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3672009
8 January 2010 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit New Bedford · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3660981
3 February 2009 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit New Bedford · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3412236
10 January 2009 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Point Judith · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3392723
29 November 2007 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3106671
25 November 2007 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3104315

Deficiency record · 1

10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Issued 29 August 2018 Resolved
Vsl is broadcasting greater than expected vessel length
Condition: Invalid
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 30 August 2023
Resolution: The MSD Dutch Harbor Inspection Team witnessed sucessfull testing/operation of the vessel's AIS.

Casualty record · 3

1 January 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4513165
8 November 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 6312179
26 January 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6352933
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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Recorded names · 1

WESTERN VENTURE (2013). 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.