FLOUNDER

Research Vessel · Research Ship class · USCG East District (CGD-E)

FLOUNDER is a research vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2017, most recently in August 2025, along with 2 deficiencies.

Records from 2017 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 14 August 2025.

Built: Not recorded
Last inspected: 14 August 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 2 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 Research Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 14 August 2025

Recorded inspections6

…administrative events6

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2017–2025)

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

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885680

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-885680

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records itNot recorded

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

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.

Inspection history · 6

14 August 2025 Administrative Inspection · ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8248652

14 November 2023 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7821926

7 October 2021 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7328264

18 November 2019 Administrative Inspection · ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6859896

11 September 2019 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6799001

15 August 2017 ORV Letter of Designation

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6242161

Deficiency record · 2

Fire Fighting › Fire Bucket › Availability

Issued 15 August 2017 Resolved

One 2.5 gallon bucket missing

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 15 August 2017
Resolved 31 August 2017
Resolution: Verified fire bucket onboard

Navigation › Piloting/Steering › Tide/Tidal Current Tables

Issued 15 August 2017 Resolved

All pubs and charts need to be updated

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 15 September 2017
Resolved 29 September 2017
Resolution: Verified all pubs onboard

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.