Vessel, 50 persons on board, adrift in vicinity 38-28.00N 019-17.00E at 271518Z jun
Ionian Sea · HYDROLANT 1456/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-07-07 14:33Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · MRCC ROME 0/23 280357Z JUN 23.. Issued 2023-06-28 04:31Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Ionian Sea. The parsed report position is 38.467, 19.283. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Vessel, 50 persons on board, requesting assistance in 33-23.00N 019-21.00E at 270558Z juncancelled by this notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROLANT 1446/232023-06-27 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 1456/23 · this notice2023-06-28 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2023-06-28 04:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC ROME 0/23 280357Z JUN 23.
- issued by
- MRCC ROME
- sea
- Ionian Sea
- position
- 38.467, 19.283
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
IONIAN SEA. GREECE. DNC 09. 1. VESSEL, 50 PERSONS ON BOARD, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 38-28.00N 019-17.00E AT 271518Z JUN. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO JRCC LIBYA, PHONE: 2189 1034 9739, 2182 1444 9149, FAX: 2182 1360 6868, E-MAIL: LMRCC.1@MOD.GOV.LY, LMRCC.2@MOD.GOV.LY OR MRCC ROME, INMARSAT-C: 424744220, PHONE: 3906 5908 4409, 390 6592 4145, FAX: 390 6592 2737, 3906 5908 4793, E-MAIL: ITMRCC@MIT.GOV.IT. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1446/23.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
209 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 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.
- 15 meter S/V ILAN7, white hull, one person on board, unreported malta (35-54.00N 014-31.00E) to preveza…2024-04-23
- S/V black bit, black hull, one person on board, unreported crete (35-18.60N 023-31.70E) to sicily (37-03.10N…2024-04-19
- 12 meter S/V eros II, one person on board, unreported2024-04-17
- 12 meter S/V, white hull, one person on board, unreported2024-04-17
- S/V 50 to 70 persons on board, unreported in vicinity 38-00.00N 018-00.00E2023-12-13
- Vessel, white hull, numerous persons on board, unreported2023-11-03
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
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:26Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.