Piracy

M/V towing barge hijacked in 04-32N 104-29E at 192228Z apr

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 834/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-04-24 09:31Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 269/10 220518Z APR 10.. Issued 2010-04-22 09:14Z. 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 4.533, 104.483. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued: 2010-04-22 09:14Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XI 269/10 220518Z APR 10.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: South China Sea
position: 4.533, 104.483
vessel: M/V ESCAPED
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
PIRACY.
1. M/V TOWING BARGE HIJACKED IN 04-32N 104-29E
   AT 192228Z APR. M/V ESCAPED AND BARGE WAS
   RELEASED. CAUTION ADVISED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 06 MAY.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
Tow / towing: A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
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.
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 · piracy & armed robbery reports

65 within 180 nm since 2008 · 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.

M/V attacked in 02-55.8N 105-10.8E at 211925Z jul2019-07-23
M/V attacked in 02-03.6N 104-59.3E at 071910Z sep2017-09-09
M/V attacked in 05-38.3N 103-11.8E at 060700Z sep2017-09-08
M/V attacked in 05-08.3N 103-11.8E at 060700Z sep2017-09-08
Vessel reports act of piracy in 02-20.9N 104-56.1E on 18 aug2016-08-18
M/V reports act of piracy vicinity 02-55N 105-19E at 161520Z jul2016-07-18

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 23:29Z; 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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