Eight pirates, armed with long knives and bars, boarded a container ship underway in 03-24N 105-31E at…
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1076/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-06-15 09:41Z
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 XI 265/08 06 JUN 08.. Issued 2008-06-06 09:15Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 3.007, 105.341. 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 South China Sea →
- issued
- 2008-06-06 09:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 265/08 06 JUN 08.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 3.007, 105.341
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. EIGHT PIRATES, ARMED WITH LONG KNIVES AND BARS, BOARDED A CONTAINER SHIP UNDERWAY IN 03-24N 105-31E AT 032000Z JUN. PIRATES STOLE SHIP'S CASH AND CREW PROPERTIES AND ESCAPED. NO INJURIES TO CREW. 2. PIRATES IN A WOODEN SPEEDBOAT, ARMED WITH LONG KNIVES AND BARS, BOARDED A CHEMICAL TANKER UNDERWAY IN 02-36.9N 105-09.9E AT 041230Z JUN. THEY STOLE SHIP'S CASH AND CREW PROPERTY AND ESCAPED. NO INJURIES TO CREW. 3. CAUTION ADVISED.
Reading this warning
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- Lost containers
- Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
155 within 180 nm since 2006 · 4 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.
- Vessel boarded by four pirates in 01-09.46N 103-27.35E at 301820Z sep2026-09-30
- Armed robbery information2026-09-17
- Vessel boarded by four armed pirates in 01-07.09N 103-31.06E at 162046Z sep2026-09-17
- Vessel boarded by pirates in 01-15.38N 104-06.11E at 160539Z jan2026-01-16
- M/V boarded by six pirates in 01-03.13N 103-37.40E at 141643Z jun2025-06-14
- M/V boarded by pirates in 01-05.00N 103-42.40E at 131500Z jun2025-06-13
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 23:30Z; 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.