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34 foot S/V l'etoile du nord, one person on board, dismasted and adrift due to engine damage vicinity…

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1995/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-12-10 10:16Z

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) · USCG MIAMI 261639Z NOV 11.//. Issued 2011-11-26 17:59Z. 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 Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 29.387, -72.592. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2011-11-26 17:59Z
status
Archived notice
authority
USCG MIAMI 261639Z NOV 11.//
issued by
USCG MIAMI
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
29.387, -72.592
vessel
S/V L'ETOILE DU NORD
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
34 FOOT S/V L'ETOILE DU NORD, ONE PERSON ON BOARD,
DISMASTED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE DAMAGE VICINITY
29-23.205N 072-35.524W. VESSELS IN VICINITY
REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST
IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO U.S. COAST GUARD MIAMI,
PHONE: 305 415 6800.

Reading this warning

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.
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)

48 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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 08:17Z; 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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