Piracy

Possible mothership activity by hijacked vessel tai yuan 227, white hull, in 00-46N 068-26E at 201600Z may

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1051/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-06-05 09:21Z

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) · MSCHOA REQ 109/10 210345Z MAY 10.. Issued 2010-05-21 04:14Z. 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: Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is 0.767, 68.433. 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 Indian Ocean →

issued: 2010-05-21 04:14Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MSCHOA REQ 109/10 210345Z MAY 10.
issued by: MSCHOA REQ
sea: Indian Ocean
position: 0.767, 68.433
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

INDIAN OCEAN.
PIRACY.
POSSIBLE MOTHERSHIP ACTIVITY BY HIJACKED VESSEL
TAI YUAN 227, WHITE HULL, IN 00-46N 068-26E AT
201600Z MAY. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100
MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE
EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO UKMTO DUBAI,
PHONE: 97 150 552 3215, E-MAIL: UKMTO@EIM.AE.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

6 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 attacked in 00-09S 070-00E at 260114Z nov2010-11-26
M/V attacked in 01-07S 067-05E at 200715Z nov2010-11-20
Possible mothership activity by hijacked vessel tai yuan 227, white hull, in 02-26N 066-17E at 190600Z may2010-05-19
Piracy possible mothership activity in 02-55N 067-35E at 130200Z may2010-05-13
F/V hijacked in 01-05N 067-50E on 06 may2010-05-07

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 03:25Z; 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 →

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