Morro
02-11-2019

NPC name Job Card Location Nation
Pedro de Leon Naval Officer Near Palma Spain
Diego Ordaz Treasure Hunter Near Ceuta Spain
Diego Díaz Adv Guild Card Near Abidjan Portugal
Diego Nicuesa Adv Guild Card Near Syracuse Spain

More as I get them

mecha
02-12-2019

Thank you Morro!!

This was a huge help.
cheers o/

Guilder
02-14-2019

"Alonso de Suniga" (Google Translation) Artist Chile Sea Basin around Ushuaia, Spain. Cheers, and happy endorsement hunting.

Source: gvo.gamedb.info/wiki/?RescueNPC

gokmop
02-17-2019

Semilion Dezhnov Navigation license (ocean explorer) near Petropavlovsk (Russia)

Guilder
02-18-2019

Lewis de Torres Interpreter Tyrrhenian Sea Spain (seems to sail out from Sassari and heads west)
Molina Priest / Missionary Tyrrhenian Sea Spain (sails out from Naples south toward Syracuse)
The JP wiki points at other fleets giving the Interpreter job, but Lewis is the only one I've confirmed personally.

Since it hasn't been mentioned here yet... when you select Endorsement benefit, you have 60 real time minutes to collect your preferred job card. These do tick down to zero even if you log out, same as any other time limited item in UWO. (Boo. Hiss.) But for those wishing to catalogue the cards/NPCs, be advised that you can only receive a job card from a flagged NPC fleet with a named admiral, so fleets without named admirals (Genoan Merchant, anyone?) can never give job cards.

Additionally, when you click on an NPC admiral, they flat out tell you which job endorsement they're offering in their text bubble, followed by the game confirming its corresponding card name immediately after. If you missed the messages or want to be sure you read 'em right, then check your chat log and you'll see both, one after the other.

Conveniently enough, until the 60 minute timer runs out or until you collect your job card endorsement, you can go around clicking on as many flagged admiral NPC fleets as you like to see what they have to offer without actually accepting anything. That makes it much easier to see what fleets offer which job cards for a smaller number of Letter items consumed per check.

Finally, note that in the case of a job card for beginners, or for a card which gives more than one job, it will only show one of the possible jobs you can change into -- Adventure Beginner card would only show Explorer, for instance. Hope that helps. Cheers, and happy job card hunting/listing.

Source: still the same as above, so I'm not linking it again.

Edgedemon
02-18-2019

i got Interpreter from NPC to Migel Herez spanish fleet near Amsterdam, if anyone found one giving ranger/guerrilla/hunter/ruin explorer or naturalist i would love to know who

Edgedemon
02-19-2019

jorje albacete north of San Juan gives recomendation for Bounty Hunter

Edgedemon
02-19-2019

Hernan Belio privateer Job, spanish fleet north of Nassau

Hawkings Pirate Job, British fleet between havana and gran cayman

Edgedemon
02-19-2019

Diego Velasquez near Jamaica give Cartographer permit

Alrn
03-08-2019

NPC named Atlasov and Bering (usually can be found near Petropavlosk supply port) gives Ocean Explorer job card.

Alrn
03-08-2019

NPC named Kruzenstern (can be found sailing from northern EA area to Nagasaki) gives Naval Officer job card.

RvZ
03-11-2019

Alonso De Sniga (Spanish NPC Fleet, entering or embarking from Ushuaia) gives Artist job card

RvZ
03-14-2019

Vasily & Cherihov (Russian NPC fleet(s), can be found near Petropavlovsk) gives Ocean Explorer job card

Pink
04-08-2019

Thomas Harriott - South of Dover to London (english fleet) rewards Cartographer permit, good job for salvagers and for grinding geo

Tryston
04-08-2019

And I'll just add, after doing the Boston theses for Cartographer, it's a GREAT job for land/sea charting.

Pink
04-09-2019

Mulad Leith West of Famagusta rewards Senior Officer job. (Ottoman fleet)

Pink
04-09-2019

Andrea Giege from Tunis rewards Swordfighter Job (spainish fleet)

Donce
04-09-2019

NPC named Aguire De Menes (Spanish NPC Fleet, entering or embarking from Ushuaia) gives Naval Officer job card Naval Officer

NPC named De Vilagran (Spanish NPC Fleet, entering or embarking from Ushuaia) gives Naval Officer job card Naval Officer

Donce
04-09-2019

NPC named Diogo Ortiz (Portuguese NPC Fleet, sailing Porto Lisbon) gives Archaeologist job card Archaeologist

Donce
04-09-2019

NPC named Lewis Floyce (Portuguese NPC Fleet, near Porto) gives job card for Missionary or Priest job Missionary Priest

Donce
04-09-2019

NPC named Juan de Gallay (Portuguese NPC Fleet, sailing out from Lisbon) gives card for Great Adventurer job Great Adventurer

RvZ
04-10-2019

Miguel Lear (Portuguese NPC Fleet, sailing towards Lisbon) gives Cartographer job card

Guilder
05-09-2019

Additionally: unchartedwaters.fandom.com/wiki/Job_Endorsements_from_NPC_at_Sea

A fine list compiling NPC fleet job card data can be found there as well. Cheers, and thanks to those involved in gathering data.

Bael
02-03-2021

Is it possible to pull a Ghost shipwreck with the letters, or only normal shipwrecks?

Guilder
03-14-2023

A little additional clarity on the rules of Rescue NPC, and the NPCs themselves.


Rules:

1. Specific sea regions have pre-set coordinates where an NPC may appear. These are fixed locations; as few as three, and as many as five. Only one NPC will ever appear at a time (fixed probability; percentage is unknown to me though).

2. If an NPC spawns, it randomly chooses one of five conditions for the NPC to be met. They are:

A -- Lack of supplies (give food/water)
B -- Requesting repairs (Repair skill required)
C -- Load collapse (sail in a circle around NPC using Recognition or Collection to locate an invisible cargo box; items with the skill effects can be used)
D -- Shipwreck (tow NPC to a city in that region and only that region)
E -- Pirate attack (enter Sea Battle of varying difficulty with NPC fleet; sink all enemy ships or enemy admiral to succeed)

Letters of Appreciation are given by meeting the conditions. The more difficult the task, the more letters you can receive on completion.

3. The NPC that appears is drawn from three NPC pools (percentage rates unknown). They are grouped as follows:

Group A -- Ordinary NPCs (can only rescue, not recruit as Aides; high chance of appearing)

Group B -- Aide NPCs (Generation 1: released in Order of the Prince~Honor update; medium chance of appearing)

This group consists of:

Rona
Elvin
Jolanda
Pamela
Marceline
Liberato
Hamit

The above groups are found globally wherever Rescue NPCs spawn, though I feel Balearic Isles is the best zone to hunt for Honor-era aides them due to its small size (IE, you can see immediately on Survey map if there is an NPC to rescue or not).

Group C -- Aide NPCs (Generation 2: released in Beyond the Illusion update; medium-to-low chance of appearing)

This group consists of:

Muriel
Mei
Melissa
Arthur
Alejandro
Bernard
Guido
Ezrin

Unlike Group B/Honor-era Aide NPCs, the Illusion-era Aide NPCs are found only in specific sea regions -- Mei is located in Eastern East Asia, for example. They are not typically found in other areas (Melissa and Guido are exceptions; if the others are as well, no one has noted other sea regions in which they spawn at the time of this posting). The Aides' pages offer more info on where to locate them.

If there is sufficient demand, I suppose could post the Rescue NPC sea region names as well. This seems to be enough for now, though. Cheers folks; great online voyaging to you.

Gudebuddha
11-09-2023

Just some added notes to the great comment from Guilder above that basicly tells you everything that one needs to know.

NPC spawn percentages: so far every time i took notes i had a 10%-15% spawn rate, everyone i talked to that also took notes had similar rates. In a fleet of 3 i get a rescue around 1 out of 3 times. But if you are looking for an aide for a specific toon, you are down to 10%-15%.

Rescue condition:

A -- Lack of supplies: you get 1 Letter for 10 food+water or 2 Letter for 100 food+water, so you might want to turn some stuff into food/water or pull supplies from alts before you talk to the NPC.

C -- Load collapse: The NPC text reads like you need to find the exact spot of the lost cargo and use recognition/collection, but you dont.
The fastest way i found is to sail in a straight line directly away from the npc and spam recognition or collection (collection you have to turn off and on again and again), after a short time of sailing straight you find the cargo, no matter if you do it infront of the npc, to the side or behind.

D -- Shipwreck: If you leave the region even once the npc disappears, some npc spawn locations are close to region borders, so be careful.

E -- Pirate attack: The worse about this one is that not only there is a pirate fleet, but there is also a rescue npc fleet in those battles, rewards depend on how many of those rescue npc ships are alive at the end of the battle and some are realy eager to die. Reward ranges from 1-3 for the battles i have seen, although i ignore those nowadays, so maybe more in higher level regions.

Marfisa
11-25-2023

I don't know if anyone else just answered to this, but is it a good idea using the large fleet reinforcement for doing battle reports or is there some kind of disadvantage?

Gudebuddha
11-27-2023

You can use them and they can be helpful, but there is a downside, in BRs you want to sink the admiral last to get the most points. The NPC dont care, they will sink whatever, often ending the battle early by sinking the admiral before all other ships.

Marfisa
11-28-2023

Oh right, I didn't think about it, thanks!