Derelicts

Derelict M/V msc hermes III on fire and adrift in vicinity 11-58.00N 113-39.00E at 232340Z sep

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2765/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-24 15:00Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-24 01:13Z. First collected 2026-09-24 16:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-24 23:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
South China Sea. The parsed report position is 11.967, 113.650. 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
2026-09-24 01:13Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-09-27 01:13Z
sea
South China Sea
position
11.967, 113.650
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-24 16:32Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
1. DERELICT M/V MSC HERMES III ON FIRE AND ADRIFT
   IN VICINITY 11-58.00N 113-39.00E AT 232340Z SEP.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2740/26.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 270113Z SEP 26.

Reading this warning

Derelict
An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

35 within 180 nm since 2001 · 3 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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26

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

5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 23:25Z; source collection times vary.

Derelicts

Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →

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.