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NELSON

ServicePort tenderGermany

Position 52s agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
NELSON
MMSI
211662170
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
Not reported
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
53
Type
Port tender
Category
Service
Length overall
Not reported
Beam
Not reported
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
Not reported
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
228°
True heading
Not reported

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
53° 34.309' N
Longitude
9° 41.107' E
Decimal
53.57182, 9.68512
Received
52s 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 NELSON's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from NELSON
DOCKENHUDENUnknown0.1 nm294° WNW
STEINDEICHOther type, no additional information0.1 nm227° SW
SY JONIUnknown0.1 nm313° NW
STOERORTDredger or underwater operations0.1 nm229° SW
JUELSSANDDredger or underwater operations0.1 nm212° SSW
BAEROther type, no additional information0.1 nm215° SW
KOLLMARLaw enforcement vessel0.1 nm196° SSW
TK8Dredger or underwater operations0.1 nm102° ESE
KRAIUnknown0.1 nm267° W
NA KIKAUnknown0.2 nm259° W
ROXYUnknown0.2 nm294° WNW
CHADENSOUnknown0.2 nm280° W
EULEUnknown0.2 nm296° WNW
BLIZZY IVUnknown0.3 nm279° W
GESAUnknown0.3 nm311° NW

Ranked by great-circle distance from NELSON'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”.