Incidents · overdue

F/V louise thomsen, unreported denmark to sunderland (54-54N 001-21W)

North Sea · HYDROLANT 1540/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-08-09 08:05Z

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) · UK COAST GUARD 222215Z JUN 15.. Issued 2015-06-22 23:27Z. 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: North Sea. The parsed report position is 55.517, 0.894. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

NORTH SEA.
DENMARK TO ENGLAND.
DNC 20, DNC 21.
F/V LOUISE THOMSEN, UNREPORTED DENMARK TO
SUNDERLAND (54-54N 001-21W). LAST KNOWN POSITION
56-08.1N 003-08.3E AT 221830Z JUN.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT,
ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO HUMBER COAST GUARD,
PHONE: 44 12 6267 2317, E-MAIL: ZONE4@HMCG.GOV.UK.

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.
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.
Last known position: The most recent confirmed position of a missing vessel or person — the starting point of a search.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

23 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.

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 2026-09-25 00:44Z; 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) →

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