NIL DESPERANDUM

PassengerPassenger ship, no additional informationNetherlands

Position 3 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name: NIL DESPERANDUM
MMSI: 244690526
IMO number: Not reported
Call sign: Not reported
Flag state: Netherlands (MID 244)
Station type: Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code: 69
Type: Passenger ship, no additional information
Category: Passenger
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 sailing
Speed over ground: 0.0 kn
Course over ground: Not reported
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: 52° 53.222' N
Longitude: 5° 21.670' E
Decimal: 52.88704, 5.36116
Received: 3 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 NIL DESPERANDUM's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

Vessel	Type	Distance	Bearing from NIL DESPERANDUM
SPARTIVENTO	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.0 nm	328° NNW
TIJDGEEST	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.0 nm	261° W
MEDUSA	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.0 nm	261° W
ZEVENWOUDEN	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.0 nm	268° W
SUDERMAR	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	261° W
VRIENDSCHAP	Passenger ship	0.1 nm	263° W
BALDER	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	248° WSW
STANFRIES	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	245° WSW
SJOUWERMAN	Unknown	0.1 nm	226° SW
ORTOLAN	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	263° W
EMMA	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	247° WSW
VROUWEZAND	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.1 nm	252° WSW
LYTSE HYLKE	Passenger ship, no additional information	0.2 nm	178° S
HOOP DOET LEVEN	Passenger ship	0.2 nm	254° WSW
DE GOEDE VERWACHTING	Other type, no additional information	0.2 nm	182° S

Ranked by great-circle distance from NIL DESPERANDUM'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.

How AIS works →Navigational status codes →Ship type codes →Reading an MMSI →

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”.