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KAREN

Tug & towTowing vesselNorway

Position 50 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
KAREN
MMSI
257747930
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
LH6537
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
31
Type
Towing vessel
Category
Tug & tow
Length overall
15 m
Beam
12 m
Draught
Not reported

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
FINNSNES
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
147°
True heading
31°

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
69° 14.594' N
Longitude
17° 59.090' E
Decimal
69.24324, 17.98483
Received
50 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 KAREN's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from KAREN
BALLSTADVAERINGFishing vessel0.5 nm330° NNW
FROEY SPIRITCargo ship0.9 nm154° SSE
GISUNDFishing vessel0.9 nm145° SE
LYKKEUnknown0.9 nm149° SSE
NINACargo ship, no additional information2.4 nm121° ESE
AVA PEARLFishing vessel4.5 nm185° S
MULTI FRONTIEROther type, no additional information5.3 nm187° S
AKVA FIGHTERDredger or underwater operations5.4 nm188° S
SLC-02Unknown5.4 nm188° S
STEINFJELLOther type5.5 nm187° S
BREITINDCargo ship7.4 nm232° SW
HAVILA CASTORPassenger ship7.5 nm18° NNE
SAMSKIP KVITBJORNCargo ship7.7 nm18° NNE
IVERUnknown9.1 nm213° SSW
BORINGENCargo ship11.8 nm221° SW

Ranked by great-circle distance from KAREN'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”.