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CAPTAIN D

Tug & towTowing vesselUnited States of America

Position 18 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
CAPTAIN D
MMSI
367596760
IMO number
8424587
Call sign
WDH2354
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
31
Type
Towing vessel
Category
Tug & tow
Length overall
49 m
Beam
24 m
Draught
3.6 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
US^0XZZ>0QAW
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
5.6 kn
Course over ground
213°
True heading
222°

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
40° 39.432' N
Longitude
74° 4.306' W
Decimal
40.65720, -74.07176
Received
18 min 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 CAPTAIN D's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from CAPTAIN D
JAMES WILLIAMTug0.2 nm216° SW
ALICE CTowing vessel (tow over 200 m or over 25 m wide)0.2 nm2° N
CAPE SAN ROMANCargo ship, no additional information0.3 nm358° N
MONTAUKCargo ship0.3 nm340° NNW
MEIN SCHIFF 1Passenger ship0.5 nm358° N
ALEX MCALLISTERTug0.6 nm14° NNE
ROBERT IVTug0.7 nm232° SW
ONE HAWKCargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargo0.7 nm346° NNW
JOHN A NOBLEPassenger ship0.8 nm179° S
SAMUEL I. NEWHOUSEPassenger ship0.8 nm180° S
SANDY GROUNDPassenger ship, no additional information0.8 nm180° S
WILLIAM F FALLON JRTug0.8 nm246° WSW
FORT SCHUYLERTug0.9 nm327° NNW
MADDIE KTug0.9 nm327° NNW
SEN.JOHN J.MARCHIPassenger ship0.9 nm177° S

Ranked by great-circle distance from CAPTAIN D'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”.