Ship mortgages are a legal nightmare and I built the cure over one very long weekend
DockyardDeed automates preferred ship mortgage filings, maritime lien perfection, and UCC cross-jurisdictional documentation for shipyards, drydocks, and vessel financiers operating under admiralty law. It pulls live vessel registry data directly from flag state APIs, generates properly formatted mortgage instruments in seconds, and tracks lien priority queues so you don't accidentally get wiped out by a maritime fuel claim. This is the tool that maritime finance attorneys have needed for thirty years and nobody bothered to build.
- Automated preferred ship mortgage instrument generation across multiple flag state jurisdictions
- Lien priority queue management covering 47 distinct maritime claim classifications
- Real-time vessel registry sync via Marshall Islands, Panama, Liberia, and Bahamas flag state APIs
- UCC cross-filing coordination for hybrid vessel-equipment collateral structures
- Admiralty law conflict detection across overlapping jurisdictions. Before you file the wrong thing in the wrong place.
MarineTraffic, Equasis, ADMIRIS, Salesforce, DocuSign, VesselBase, LienLedger Pro, USCG National Vessel Documentation Center, FlagSync, S&P Global Maritime, Kroll Maritime Risk, HarbourVault
DockyardDeed runs on a microservices architecture with each jurisdiction handler isolated in its own service boundary, communicating over a hardened internal message bus. Vessel registry data is ingested and normalized through a pipeline layer before being committed to MongoDB, which handles the full transactional workload for mortgage instrument state and lien queue ordering. Static document templates and compiled instrument packages are cached in Redis for long-term retrieval by client portals and external counsel. The whole thing deploys as a single docker-compose up on any machine with 4GB of RAM and an internet connection.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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