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PL6

MilitaryLaw enforcement vesselHong Kong

Position 3 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
PL6
MMSI
477995093
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
PL6
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
55
Type
Law enforcement vessel
Category
Military
Length overall
16 m
Beam
5 m
Draught
1.0 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
0
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Not reported
Speed over ground
33.8 kn
Course over ground
259°
True heading
261°

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
22° 14.378' N
Longitude
114° 4.712' E
Decimal
22.23963, 114.07853
Received
3 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 PL6's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from PL6
SHENSHE6693Unknown1.2 nm75° ENE
LPS 2Passenger ship1.3 nm101° E
FIORD 18Passenger ship1.4 nm95° E
UNIVERSAL MK 2006High-speed craft1.5 nm353° N
YAM O 18Passenger ship1.5 nm96° E
TSUI WAH 8Unknown1.7 nm93° E
PRESINGECargo ship, no additional information1.8 nm39° NE
HKK 1High-speed craft1.8 nm117° ESE
TSUI WAH 213Passenger ship1.9 nm89° E
ANESUNTanker2.0 nm359° N
CHAI WANCargo ship2.0 nm13° NNE
EVER FINECargo ship2.1 nm66° ENE
TSUI WAH 323Passenger ship2.1 nm85° E
XIN MING ZHU VIIIHigh-speed craft2.2 nm14° NNE
WAN HAI 357Cargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargo2.2 nm58° ENE

Ranked by great-circle distance from PL6'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”.