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SEASPAN BEACON

CargoCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargoSingapore

Position 11 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
SEASPAN BEACON
MMSI
563287400
IMO number
9713337
Call sign
9V8017
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
71
Type
Cargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo
Category
Cargo
Length overall
337 m
Beam
48 m
Draught
12.6 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
USJAX
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Moored
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
187°
True heading
21°

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
32° 49.963' N
Longitude
79° 53.523' W
Decimal
32.83272, -79.89205
Received
11 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 SEASPAN BEACON's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from SEASPAN BEACON
SANTORINI EXPRESSCargo ship0.1 nm203° SSW
PAULA LEEOther type0.2 nm264° W
NEPTUNETowing vessel0.3 nm250° WSW
ERIC MCALLISTERTug0.3 nm199° SSW
ZIM MOUNT EVERESTCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo0.3 nm20° NNE
KIMBERLY STug0.5 nm229° SW
SOARING EAGLETug2.1 nm259° W
MOIRA MCALLISTERTowing vessel2.1 nm214° SW
DREDGE BRUNSWICKDredger or underwater operations2.3 nm295° WNW
ELEANOR F MORANTug2.4 nm294° WNW
JAMES A MORANUnknown2.4 nm293° WNW
WYATT MORANTug2.4 nm294° WNW
CAPE DECISIONCargo ship2.4 nm294° WNW
LIMELIGHTUnknown2.5 nm205° SSW
CAPE DOUGLASCargo ship2.6 nm294° WNW

Ranked by great-circle distance from SEASPAN BEACON'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”.