M/V attacked in 04-54N 001-41E at 280350Z jul
Gulf of Guinea · HYDROLANT 1905/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-07-31 09:10Z
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) · NAVAREA II 221/16 280546Z JUL 16.. Issued 2016-07-28 05:53Z. 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
- Gulf of Guinea. The parsed report position is 4.900, 1.683. 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
Current notices and reporting history in the Gulf of Guinea →
- issued
- 2016-07-28 05:53Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 221/16 280546Z JUL 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Gulf of Guinea
- position
- 4.900, 1.683
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF GUINEA. GHANA. PIRACY. DNC 01. 1. M/V ATTACKED IN 04-54N 001-41E AT 280350Z JUL. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO MDAT-GOG, PHONE: 332 9822 8888, E-MAIL: WATCHKEEPERS@MDAT-GOG.ORG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 04 AUG 16.
Reading this warning
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- 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.
- 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 · piracy & armed robbery reports
75 within 180 nm since 2012 · 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.
- M/V approached by pirates in 02-56N 002-41E at 061619Z jun2021-06-06
- M/V attacked in 02-49N 002-31E at 061700Z jun2021-06-06
- F/V attacked in 04-33N 002-23E at 311930Z may2021-06-01
- F/V attacked in 04-33.5N 000-15.6E at 191830Z may2021-05-20
- M/V reports approach by suspicious vessel in 03-02N 003-16E at 201855Z apr2021-04-20
- M/V attacked in 03-02N 002-55E at 140550Z mar2021-03-14
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 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:31Z; source collection times vary.
Piracy
Vessels attacked or boarded, suspicious approaches, pirate action groups — Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Malacca and Singapore Straits, South China Sea. All current piracy & armed robbery reports →
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.