Containers

Container adrift in vicinity 51-04.6N 001-11.6E at 200600Z nov

English Channel · HYDROLANT 3102/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-11-23 16:09Z

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) · WZ 1351/16 201505Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-20 16:09Z. 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: English Channel. The parsed report position is 51.077, 1.193. 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 English Channel →

issued: 2016-11-20 16:09Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2016-11-23 16:09Z
authority: WZ 1351/16 201505Z NOV 16.
issued by: WZ
sea: English Channel
position: 51.077, 1.193
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

DOVER STRAIT.
ENGLAND-SOUTHEAST COAST.
DNC 20.
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY 51-04.6N 001-11.6E
   AT 200600Z NOV.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 231609Z NOV 16.

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.
Lost containers: Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

60 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.

Container adrift in vicinity 50-17.00N 003-22.00W at 131253Z jun2023-06-14
Container adrift in vicinity 51-07.8N 001-32.0E at 230511Z mar2022-03-23
White container adrift in 50-00.3N 002-45.7W at 051200Z feb2020-02-05
Container reported adrift in 50-24.9N 003-24.7W at 020700Z nov2019-11-02
Three containers adrift in vicinity 53-24.9N 000-43.3E2018-11-20
Container adrift in 49-16.3N 001-57.9W2018-01-03

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 drifting containers listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:36Z; source collection times vary.

Containers

Shipping containers lost overboard and reported adrift or semi-submerged. All current drifting containers →

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.