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Number of persons on board

Introduction/Additional information: 

This message should be used by a ship to report the number of persons on board, e.g. on request by a competent authority.
Attributes: addressed, acknowledgement required.

Permitted as from: 
17/05/2004
Not to be used after: 
01/01/2013
Registrant: 
IMO Circ. 236
Physical link: 
AIS
Message number (0=VDES-VDE): 
6
DAC or VPFI: 
1
FI / Message ID: 
16
State: 
deprecated
State link: 
Number of persons on board
Number of slots (max): 
1
Last modified: 
29/01/2021 - 23:18
Details: 

 

 Parameter   No. of bits   Description  
 Message ID  6 Identifier for Message 6
always 6  
 Repeat Indicator  2 Used by the repeater to indicate how many times a  
     message has been repeated.  
 Source ID  30 Name of source station  
 Spare  2 Not used. Should be set to zero.  
 IAI  16 DAC = 001
 FI =16  
 Number of Persons  13 Current number of persons on-board, including crew members: 
0.8191; default = 0 = not available;  8191 = 8191 or more  
 Spare  3 Not used. Should be set to zero.  
 Total Number of Bits  72 This message uses one slot