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GH FRANKLIN

CargoCargo shipMarshall Islands

Position 17 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
GH FRANKLIN
MMSI
538012439
IMO number
9723186
Call sign
V7B2851
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
70
Type
Cargo ship
Category
Cargo
Length overall
292 m
Beam
45 m
Draught
18.4 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
NLRTM
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
At anchor
Speed over ground
0.1 kn
Course over ground
3°
True heading
207°

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
51° 53.197' N
Longitude
3° 27.824' E
Decimal
51.88662, 3.46374
Received
17 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 GH FRANKLIN's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from GH FRANKLIN
STEN NORDICTanker1.1 nm214° SW
STAR KINNCargo ship1.4 nm256° WSW
NAVE AMARYLLISTanker1.6 nm24° NNE
YOKOHAMA PIONIERTanker2.0 nm172° S
ST.MICHAELISTanker2.0 nm66° ENE
APL CALIFORNIACargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo2.6 nm48° NE
BIT FORCETanker2.7 nm125° SE
CAROLINE ATanker, carrying category B hazardous cargo2.8 nm14° NNE
SANMAR SARODTanker, no additional information3.1 nm74° ENE
SAMIRACargo ship, no additional information3.7 nm298° WNW
BRO ANNATanker3.7 nm267° W
NITAYA NAREECargo ship3.9 nm204° SSW
ARKLOW BANKCargo ship4.0 nm37° NE
ARKLOW MARSHCargo ship, no additional information4.0 nm224° SW
ATLANTIS ARACELITanker, carrying category B hazardous cargo4.2 nm106° ESE

Ranked by great-circle distance from GH FRANKLIN'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”.