43 meter F/V chin I wen, white hull, 28 persons on board, hijacked in 06-11S 051-04E at 032100Z nov
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 3115/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-11-07 11:47Z
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) · IMBPC 041010Z NOV 11.. Issued 2011-11-04 10:32Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -6.183, 51.067. 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
- Derelict F/V, partially submerged and adrift in 11-29S 124-10E at 070042Z novlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2011-11-04 10:32Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- IMBPC 041010Z NOV 11.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -6.183, 51.067
- vessel
- F/V CHIN I WEN
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. PIRACY. 43 METER F/V CHIN I WEN, WHITE HULL, 28 PERSONS ON BOARD, HIJACKED IN 06-11S 051-04E AT 032100Z NOV. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTRE, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, EMAIL: PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG.
Reading this warning
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
5 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
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- M/V costa allegra on fire, 1040 persons on board, in 07-30.70S 052-37.04E2012-02-27
- 27 meter F/V isle of mahe, 31 persons on board, adrift in 08-05.18S 051-34.00E2004-02-19
- Man overboard from M/V royal star vicinity 06-06S 053-26E at 222100Z dec2000-12-23
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 2026-10-03 09:25Z; 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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