Naval command · Italy

Italian Navy maritime department, La Spezia

Recorded as: MARIDIPART LA SPEZIA

An Italian Navy regional command, whose warnings announce firing exercises and naval activity off its coast.

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

191 messages in this archive record MARIDIPART LA SPEZIA as their authority, issued from 1999-05-18 to 2002-02-26. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 51 of 191 recorded messages (27%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA II (2), NAVAREA III (2) and NAVAREA V (1).

Located messages lie in 3 sea areas, most often Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea and Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin.

The largest yearly count is 1999, with 66 messages.

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

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (191).

Messages by year of issue

'99
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'01
'02

By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA II 2 · NAVAREA III 2 · NAVAREA V 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROLANT 454/02 · Surveys · Ligurian Sea2002-02-25
    Underwater operations in progress until 27 feb by M/V manning in area bound by 44-12.42N 009-31.62E,…
  2. HYDROLANT 383/02 · Ordnance · Ligurian Sea2002-02-17
    Unexploded ordnance on wreck within 500 meters of 44-03-38N 009-45-06E
  3. HYDROLANT 380/02 · Surveys · Ligurian Sea2002-02-17
    Underwater operations 18 thru 26 feb by M/V manning in area bound by 44-05.0N 009-40.0E, 44-05.5N 009-44.5E,…
  4. HYDROLANT 362/02 · Exercises · Ligurian Sea2002-02-13
    Gunnery exercises 141000Z to 141600Z feb in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-53E,…
  5. HYDROLANT 348/02 · Exercises · Ligurian Sea2002-02-11
    Gunnery exercises 120700Z to 121600Z and 130700Z to 131100Z feb in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N…
  6. HYDROLANT 329/02 · Surveys · Tyrrhenian Sea2002-02-08
    Underwater research operations 09 thru 28 feb by M/V alliance: a. along trackline between 42-48.65N…
  7. HYDROLANT 328/02 · Exercises · Ligurian Sea2002-02-08
    Gunnery exercises 0700Z to 1100Z daily 12 and 13 feb in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N…
  8. HYDROLANT 296/02 · Exercises · Ligurian Sea2002-02-05
    Gunnery exercises 060900Z to 061500Z feb in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-53E,…

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 997/99 · Exercises · Ligurian Sea1999-05-17
    Gunnery exercises 191300Z to 191600Z may in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-53E,…

Other naval commands 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.

Italian Navy maritime department, La Spezia — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards