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DON CARLTON

Tug & towTowing vesselUnited States of America

Position 2 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
DON CARLTON
MMSI
367408160
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
WDE8670
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
31
Type
Towing vessel
Category
Tug & tow
Length overall
27 m
Beam
9 m
Draught
3.0 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^0A2T>120H
ETA
Not reported
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
7°
True heading
174°

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
29° 23.066' N
Longitude
94° 46.180' W
Decimal
29.38444, -94.76966
Received
2 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 DON CARLTON's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from DON CARLTON
JASEN AUGUSTTug0.2 nm53° NE
LILLIANNE DLocal vessel0.4 nm43° NE
CAPT MAIFishing vessel0.7 nm48° NE
MAN O WARLocal vessel0.8 nm45° NE
RICHARD TOLARLocal vessel1.2 nm228° SW
BILL RODGERSTowing vessel1.2 nm42° NE
ROBERT C LANIERUnknown1.5 nm202° SSW
CAPT PIC NAQUINLocal vessel1.5 nm46° NE
PHILIPTug1.9 nm47° NE
MV TEXASTowing vessel1.9 nm48° NE
CHOCTAWLocal vessel1.9 nm48° NE
SAINTE MARIETug2.0 nm228° SW
CAPTAIN DCargo ship2.0 nm241° WSW
BRIANNA MARIETug2.0 nm47° NE
SEA OTTEROther type2.1 nm46° NE

Ranked by great-circle distance from DON CARLTON'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”.