Naval command

CTF

Recorded as: CTF

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

Naval commands announce the areas and times of exercises, firings and other operations that other ships should avoid. The same areas are often used again and again, so the archive shows how regularly a range is active.

What the archive holds

238 messages in this archive record CTF as their authority, issued from 1999-10-22 to 2023-03-08. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 92 of 238 recorded messages (39%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (5), NAVAREA II (1) and NAVAREA III (1).

Located messages lie in 16 sea areas, most often Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin, North Atlantic Ocean and Ionian Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2009, with 55 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in July and least often in November.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (119), HYDROLANT (113), NAVAREA IV (5) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 5 · NAVAREA II 1 · NAVAREA III 1 · NAVAREA VI 1 · NAVAREA X 1 · NAVAREA XII 1 · NAVAREA XVI 1

Most recently issued

Earliest in the archive

NAVAREA XII 360/99 · Other · North Atlantic Ocean1999-10-21
Hydrographic operations 230001Z oct to 280001Z nov in area bound by 59-00N 166-30W, 55-00N 158-00W, 60-00N…

Other naval commands in NAVAREA IV

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