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M/V fenghuang, 23 persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 11-36.00N 111-49.00E at 120314Z apr

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1095/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-17 00:00Z

The stored record marks this notice cancelled. The cancellation basis does not establish that the reported hazard was removed.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force lists, Wayback Machine snapshots (2024-06 → 2026-04 gap backfill). Issued 2026-04-12 13:02Z. First collected 2026-04-17 16:00Z; last seen in collection 2026-04-17 16:00Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
South China Sea. The parsed report position is 11.600, 111.817. 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 South China Sea

issued
2026-04-12 13:02Z
status
Cancelled notice
sea
South China Sea
position
11.600, 111.817
vessel
M/V FENGHUANG
source
NGA MSI in-force lists, Wayback Machine snapshots (2024-06 → 2026-04 gap backfill) · first seen 2026-04-17 16:00Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
1. M/V FENGHUANG, 23 PERSONS ON BOARD,
   DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   11-36.00N 111-49.00E AT 120314Z APR.
   VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
   LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
   REPORTS TO MRCC VIETNAM,
   EMAIL: HPLES-GMDSS@HPLES.COM.VN.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1093/26.

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.
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.
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.
MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
GMDSS
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System: the internationally agreed set of radio services ships use for distress alerting and safety broadcasts.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

711 within 180 nm since 1998 · 7 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 12:21Z; 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)

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.