Port or tanker
Unidentified vessel — seized at anchor and taken toward Iranian waters
14 May 2026 · 05:45 GMT
38 NM northeast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
What happened
The company security officer reported that an unidentified vessel was taken by unauthorised personnel while at anchor approximately 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah and was proceeding toward Iranian territorial waters. UKMTO continued to investigate and did not identify the boarding party, report casualties or damage, or attribute responsibility. A later JMIC incident table described the vessel type as fishery research and continued to withhold its name. The identifier #28082035 appears in some web listings for this record, but the official UKMTO warning number is 057-26 and the agency classified it as Suspicious Activity rather than Attack. The marker position is approximate, calculated from the reported distance and direction from Fujairah.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Port or tanker
- Latitude
- 25.5800°
- Longitude
- 56.8500°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.