Distress signal received from vessel gray viceroy vicinity 05-37N 104-09E at 220500Z nov
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1696/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-11-24 05:50Z
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) · MPA SINGAPORE POR EGC 9 220630Z NOV 00. Issued 2000-11-22 07:40Z. 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 5.617, 104.150. 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
- 2000-11-22 07:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MPA SINGAPORE POR EGC 9 220630Z NOV 00
- issued by
- MPA SINGAPORE POR EGC
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 5.617, 104.150
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM VESSEL GRAY VICEROY VICINITY 05-37N 104-09E AT 220500Z NOV. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO SINGAPORE PORT OPERATIONS, TELEX: RS 20021.
Reading this warning
- Distress signal received
- A rescue centre has received an alert — from a beacon, a radio call or a satellite terminal — and is asking ships to look.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
347 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.
- Man overboard from vessel bot pukat jerut jhfa in 06-21.23N 103-55.05E at 151500Z aug2026-08-18
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from M/V harbour 12 in 03-46.40N 104-49.90E at 081228Z apr2024-04-08
- Distress signal received in 04-20.00N 105-34.50E at 052345Z mar2024-03-06
- Man overboard from F/V kg 91639 ts in vicinity 07-02.53N 105-45.11E at 242200Z feb2024-02-27
- Man overboard from F/V kg 93615 ts in vicinity 07-46.46N 105-09.53E at 24110Z feb2024-02-27
- Fisherman missing from F/V bl 91515 ts in 08-24.00N 105-05.00E at 152100Z feb2024-02-16
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-27 23:33Z; 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.