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VIOLA

ServiceMedical transportMalta

Position 2 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
VIOLA
MMSI
248957000
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
Not reported
Flag state
Malta (MID 248)
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
58
Type
Medical transport
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
Moored
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
Not reported
True heading
118°

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
51° 58.318' N
Longitude
5° 55.086' E
Decimal
51.97197, 5.91810
Received
2 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 VIOLA's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from VIOLA
FORTUNAOther type, no additional information0.0 nm85° E
BARBARELLAPassenger ship0.1 nm303° WNW
SERENAPassenger ship, no additional information0.1 nm119° ESE
BELLISSIMAOther type, no additional information0.1 nm307° NW
VISTA SUNTanker0.2 nm312° NW
THURGAU SILENCEPassenger ship, no additional information0.2 nm309° NW
FENIKSUnknown0.3 nm304° NW
IN 'T OPPERPleasure craft0.4 nm96° E
ANDERS J. GOEDKOOPPleasure craft0.5 nm306° NW
SALVINIAPassenger ship, no additional information0.6 nm305° NW
BLUE RHAPSODYCargo ship, no additional information0.7 nm305° NW
PAXPleasure craft0.8 nm116° ESE
NAJADEPleasure craft0.9 nm307° NW
HENREANCargo ship, no additional information0.9 nm121° ESE
EUREKAPassenger ship, no additional information0.9 nm307° NW

Ranked by great-circle distance from VIOLA'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”.