Nav aids

Fowey Light at 50-19.60N 004-38.90W in the English Channel near England is unreliable.

English Channel · HYDROLANT 1448/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-11 16:15Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-07-27 17:03Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-08 18:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: English Channel. The parsed report position is 50.327, -4.648. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the English Channel →

issued: 2026-07-27 17:03Z
status: Cancelled notice
sea: English Channel
position: 50.327, -4.648
nearest port: Falmouth · 19 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

ENGLISH CHANNEL.
ENGLAND.
FOWEY LIGHT 50-19.60N 004-38.90W UNRELIABLE.

Reading this warning

Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air: An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

1467 within 180 nm since 1997 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Bull point light in 51-12.00N 004-12.10W unreliable2026-09-24
Aids to navigation2026-08-29
Les pierres noires lighthouse 48-18.60N 004-54.80W unlit2026-08-29
Mf r/t and dsc services at scillies site 49-55.70N 006-18.20W off air2024-09-05
NAVTEX station corsen (w) 48-28.00N 005-03.00W off air2024-09-01
Le stiff light 48-28.46N 005-03.37W unlit2024-07-22

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:01Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.