Vessel alaskan leader, 23 persons on board, on fire in 55-11N 167-31W
Bering Sea · HYDROPAC 3035/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-10-29 09:12Z
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) · U.S. COAST GUARD 280654Z OCT 11.. Issued 2011-10-28 07:15Z. 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
- Bering Sea. The parsed report position is 55.183, -167.517. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2011-10-28 07:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- U.S. COAST GUARD 280654Z OCT 11.
- issued by
- U.S. COAST GUARD
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 55.183, -167.517
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BERING SEA. VESSEL ALASKAN LEADER, 23 PERSONS ON BOARD, ON FIRE IN 55-11N 167-31W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO U.S. COAST GUARD, PHONE: 907 463 2000.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- 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)
11 within 180 nm since 2011 · 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.
- Distress signal received from F/V defender in 56-31.80N 164-15.00W2023-03-07
- Distress signal received in 54-14.2N 167-46.9W2019-06-13
- 140 foot F/V lilli ann, 20 persons on board, disabled and adrift in 55-14.52N 164-05.32W2018-01-29
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 98 foot F/V destination, blue hull, six persons on board, in…2017-02-12
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 98 foot F/V destination, blue hull, in 56-37.3N 169-57.8W2017-02-11
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 53-44.55N 163-46.76W2015-07-09
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 2026-09-29 21:40Z; 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) →
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