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BESTLA

Tug & towTugDenmark

Position 4 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
BESTLA
MMSI
219829000
IMO number
8027779
Call sign
OVRH2
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
52
Type
Tug
Category
Tug & tow
Length overall
29 m
Beam
9 m
Draught
4.3 m

Length is the sum of the two AIS reference-point dimensions fore and aft; beam is the sum of the port and starboard pair. Both come from the vessel's own static report.

Voyage & motion

Destination
KALUNDBORG
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
8.8 kn
Course over ground
185°
True heading
184°

Destination, ETA and navigational status are typed in on the bridge, not measured. Speed, course and heading come from the vessel's instruments.

Last known position

Latitude
57° 15.022' N
Longitude
10° 42.813' E
Decimal
57.25036, 10.71355
Received
4 h ago
Reported by ship
Not reported
Source feed
AISStream.io

This is the latest position our store holds, not a live fix. The vessel has been free to move for the whole of the age shown above.

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Only one position is held for this vessel, so no track can be drawn.

Nearby

Other vessels near this one

Everything else our snapshot holds within 25 nm of BESTLA's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from BESTLA
ANE LAESOEPassenger ship7.3 nm68° ENE
ANOUKCargo ship7.8 nm5° N
STENA DANICAPassenger ship, no additional information10.6 nm348° NNW
MARGRETE LAESOEPassenger ship, no additional information11.6 nm336° NNW
EXPRESS 1High-speed craft, no additional information12.0 nm335° NNW
VINGARENTanker12.1 nm335° NNW
M.A.R.S. PROJEKT 2Unknown12.2 nm336° NNW
HDMS HVIDBJOERNENMilitary operations12.3 nm333° NNW
OLYMPIC ZEUSOther type12.4 nm334° NNW
SVITZER HYMERTug12.6 nm335° NNW
DANMARKSailing vessel12.7 nm335° NNW
RESCUE MORTEN STAGESearch and rescue vessel13.9 nm72° ENE
FN365 ELENAFishing vessel14.0 nm72° ENE
FN21 RECOUnknown14.0 nm72° ENE
FN341 LINE HFishing vessel14.1 nm72° ENE

Ranked by great-circle distance from BESTLA's last known fix, both taken from the same snapshot moment. Neither vessel has necessarily stayed put since — see the age shown above for how stale each position may be. Also available as JSON: /api/nearby.

What this data means

Reading this record

Everything above comes from two different AIS transmissions. Position, speed, course and heading arrive in message 1, 2 or 3, broadcast every few seconds while under way — that is why the position age above can be very small. Name, MMSI, IMO number, call sign, type and dimensions arrive in a separate static report — message 5 for a Class A transponder, message 24 for Class B — sent only around once every six minutes. A vessel can therefore show a fresh position with an old or missing static report, or the reverse.

Nothing here is estimated, interpolated, or carried over from a previous ship at the same MMSI. Where the vessel did not transmit a field, or transmitted a value the standard defines as "not available", we print “Not reported” rather than guess.

Data for this page comes from AISStream.io under Free for any use. Field meanings are explained in the reference guides. Nothing on this page is derived, estimated or filled in — where a field is empty, we print “Not reported”.