M/V apl vancouver on fire in vicinity 11-42N 109-19E at 010135Z feb
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 369/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-02-01 16:03Z
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) · MRCC VIETNAM 010210Z FEB 19.. Issued 2019-02-01 06:26Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 11.700, 109.317. 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
- M/V apl vancouver on fire in vicinity 12-47N 109-25E at 310720Z jancancelled by this notice
- M/V apl vancouver on fire in vicinity 11-28N 109-05E at 010808Z feblater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2019-02-01 06:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC VIETNAM 010210Z FEB 19.
- issued by
- MRCC VIETNAM
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 11.700, 109.317
- vessel
- M/V APL VANCOUVER · 3 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. VIETNAM. DNC 11. 1. M/V APL VANCOUVER ON FIRE IN VICINITY 11-42N 109-19E AT 010135Z FEB. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC VIETNAM, FAX: 8422 5398 1615, E-MAIL: HPLES-GMDSS@HPLES.COM.VN. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 358/19.
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.
- 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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- GMDSS
- The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System: the internationally agreed set of radio services ships use for distress alerting and safety broadcasts.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
36 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.
- F/V sg 66014 ts sunk in 10-02.08N 106-57.98E2026-08-29
- One person overboard from F/V bth 86436 ts in 10-47.75N 108-08.60E at 121715Z mar2023-03-13
- Two persons overboard from F/V in 10-19N 108-01E2022-03-03
- F/V py 94477 ts, four persons abandoned ship in vicinity 11-53N 109-35E at 050755Z aug2021-08-05
- M/V abandoning ship in 11-11N 111-11E at 202123Z oct2020-10-21
- Two persons overboard from F/V nt 01996 ts, in 11-04.4N 108-56.8E at 031200Z jan2020-01-05
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 16:55Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.