A 14-metre sailing vessel is adrift derelict in the North Sea at 59-36.00N 003-05.00E as of 18 September, with the notice cancelled 24 September.
North Sea · HYDROLANT 1856/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z
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 2026-09-18 20:14Z. First collected 2026-09-23 15:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-24 12:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Sea. The parsed report position is 59.600, 3.083. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-09-18 20:14Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-24 01:14Z
- sea
- North Sea
- position
- 59.600, 3.083
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-23 15:02Z
Original warning text
NORTH SEA. 1. DERELICT 14 METER S/V ADRIFT IN 59-36.00N 003-05.00E AT 181831Z SEP. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 240114Z SEP 26.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
11 within 180 nm since 2001 · 1 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.
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 57-30N 003-08E at 110600Z sep2019-09-11
- Derelict 13 meter S/V adrift in vicinity 59-47.5N 001-29.7E at 021320Z mar2017-03-02
- Derelict 13 meter S/V adrift in vicinity 59-33.0N 001-03.5E at 011735Z mar2017-03-01
- Derelict 13 meter S/V adrift in 59-30.8N 001-01.7E at 011445Z mar2017-03-01
- Derelict 13 meter S/V adrift in 59-38.9N 000-26.1E at 281845Z feb2017-02-28
- Derelict 13 meter S/V adrift vicinity 58-18.4N 001-44.0W2015-11-16
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-24 12:21Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
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.