Coast radio station

CAPE TOWN RADIO

Recorded as: CAPE TOWN RADIO

The name suggests a coast radio station; seahazards has not verified who this issuer is. What follows is what the messages recorded under this name show.

Coast radio stations broadcast safety information to ships on behalf of their country's maritime authorities. A warning that names a radio station as its authority was broadcast by it; the underlying report may come from a navy, a port or a hydrographic office.

What the archive holds

168 messages in this archive record CAPE TOWN RADIO as their authority, issued from 1999-08-09 to 2017-05-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 120 of 168 recorded messages (71%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA II (1) and NAVAREA VII (1).

Located messages lie in 6 sea areas, most often South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Mozambique Channel.

The largest yearly count is 2000, with 34 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in May and least often in February.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (100) and HYDROPAC (68).

Messages by year of issue

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By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA II 1 · NAVAREA VII 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 1635/17 · Incidents2017-05-08
    F/V, blue and white hull, two persons on board, unreported
  2. HYDROPAC 1634/17 · Other2017-05-08
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1629/17 and this msg
  3. HYDROPAC 1629/17 · Incidents · Indian Ocean2017-05-08
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 31-50.4S 032-14.4E at 080903Z may
  4. HYDROPAC 1277/17 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2017-04-11
    15 meter S/V climate action now, one person on board, dismasted and adrift in vicinity 37-53S 018-26E
  5. HYDROLANT 1158/17 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2017-04-11
    15 meter S/V climate action now, one person on board, dismasted and adrift in vicinity 37-53S 018-26E
  6. HYDROPAC 1193/17 · Derelicts · Indian Ocean2017-04-03
    50 foot S/V climate action now dismasted and adrift in 48-30-38S 022-31-43E
  7. HYDROLANT 834/17 · Incidents2017-03-15
    Cancel HYDROLANT 828/17 and this msg, vessel located safe
  8. HYDROLANT 678/17 · Incidents2017-03-01
    Cancel HYDROLANT 659/17 and this msg, vessel located safe

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 1658/99 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean1999-08-09
    Distress signals received from vessel on: a. 406 mhz vicinity 11-10-56S 000-33-55W and 11-24-51S 003-56-49W

Other coast radio stations in NAVAREA II

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.

CAPE TOWN RADIO — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards