Report 1 – Initial message – Piracy/armed robbery attack alert
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1333/Rev.1 – Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships – (12 June 2015) Recommendations to Governments for preventing and suppressing piracy and armed robbery against ships - Appendix 4 – Ships' Message Formats - Report 1 – Initial message – Piracy/armed robbery attack alert

Report 1 – Initial message – Piracy/armed robbery attack alert

  1 Ship's name and, callsign, IMO number, INMARSAT IDs (plus ocean region code) and MMSI

  • MAYDAY/DISTRESS ALERT (see note)

    URGENCY SIGNAL

    PIRACY/ARMED ROBBERY ATTACK

  2 Ship's position (and time of position UTC)

  • Latitude Longitude
    Course Speed KTS

  3 Nature of event

Note: It is expected that this message will be a Distress Message because the ship or persons will be in grave or imminent danger when under attack. Where this is not the case, the word MAYDAY/DISTRESS ALERT is to be omitted.

Use of distress priority (3) in the INMARSAT system will not require MAYDAY/DISTRESS ALERT to be included.

Parent topic: Appendix 4 – Ships' Message Formats
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