Distress signal received from vessel DM234 in 19-13N 038-11E at 260124Z jan
Red Sea · HYDROPAC 224/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-01-31 11:25Z
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) · UK COAST GUARD 260405Z JAN 16.. Issued 2016-01-26 06:05Z. 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
- Red Sea. The parsed report position is 19.217, 38.183. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2016-01-26 06:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- UK COAST GUARD 260405Z JAN 16.
- issued by
- UK COAST GUARD
- sea
- Red Sea
- position
- 19.217, 38.183
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
RED SEA. DNC 10. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM VESSEL DM234 IN 19-13N 038-11E AT 260124Z JAN. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO U.K. COAST GUARD, PHONE: 4413 2631 7575, E-MAIL: ZONE38@HMCG.GOV.UK.
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.
- 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)
7 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- Man overboard from vessel aporprouda in 21-33.59N 038-48.23E2025-06-09
- S/V genesis, three persons on board unreported sudan (19-35.00N 037-11.00E) to korea2023-03-31
- Derelict catamaran, black and white hull, capsized and adrift vicinity 17-33N 040-23E at 090956Z sep2014-09-09
- Egypt to djibouti2011-01-30
- S/V anaika, white hull, overdue hurgahada, egypt (27-15N 033-50E) to djibouti (11-30N 043-00E)2009-09-26
- 6 meter S/V zeus, two persons on board, overdue port soudan to djibouti2001-07-25
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 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 05:18Z; 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.