Nav aids

Bull Point Light in the Bristol Channel, England, at 51-12.00N 004-12.10W is unreliable.

Bristol Channel · HYDROLANT 1885/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-24 15:00Z

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 2026-09-24 04:11Z. First collected 2026-09-24 16:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 01:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Bristol Channel. The parsed report position is 51.200, -4.202. 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 Bristol Channel →

issued
2026-09-24 04:11Z
status
Cancelled notice
sea
Bristol Channel
position
51.200, -4.202
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-24 16:32Z

Original warning text

BRISTOL CHANNEL.
ENGLAND.
BULL POINT LIGHT IN 51-12.00N 004-12.10W
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

1758 within 180 nm since 1997 · 5 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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05
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26

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

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A
M
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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 01:18Z; 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.