M/V hijacked in 16-30N 040-08E at 170338Z sep
Red Sea · HYDROPAC 3048/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-09-19 06:55Z
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) · IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER 180211Z SEP 19.. Issued 2019-09-18 02:37Z. 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 16.500, 40.133. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 3048/19 and this msg, vessel located safelater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2019-09-18 02:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2019-09-25 02:37Z
- authority
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER 180211Z SEP 19.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Red Sea
- position
- 16.500, 40.133
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
RED SEA. ERITREA. DNC 10. 1. M/V HIJACKED IN 16-30N 040-08E AT 170338Z SEP. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, 603 2078 5763, FAX: 603 2078 5769, E-MAIL: IMBKL@ICC-CCS.ORG, PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 250237Z SEP 19.
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.
- 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.
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
24 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.
- Vessel attacked in 14-19.53N 042-14.43E at 060335Z feb2024-02-06
- Piracy incident reported in 14-50.00N 041-55.00E2023-11-19
- M/V approached by pirates in 14-50.00N 042-34.20E at 270545Z jun2023-06-27
- Vessel attacked in 15-25N 042-18E at 171850Z nov2019-11-18
- Vessel attacked in 14-57.1N 042-05.8E at 031512Z jun2018-06-04
- M/V attacked by pirates in 14-40N 041-45E at 111115Z may2018-05-11
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 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:29Z; source collection times vary.
Piracy
Vessels attacked or boarded, suspicious approaches, pirate action groups — Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Malacca and Singapore Straits, South China Sea. All current piracy & armed robbery reports →
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