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Guidance on the use of SV-ECS on small commercial vessels up to 24 metres in load line length.
Guidance on the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998, amended by the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Chart showing the traffic separation scheme for vessels in the Dover Strait.
Steps and requirements on how to register a fishing vessel
Guidance on when seafarers and other persons who work at sea are entitled to the minimum wage.
Strategic overview and organisation of search and rescue in UK and Northern Ireland.
Guidance on the required knowledge for the UKLAP Grade 2.
Amendment 1 of this guidance note details the requirements for manoeuvring information in the form of a pilot card, wheelhouse poster and manoeuvring booklet.
This MGN gives information on statutory duties under UK and international shipping legislation on the causes of fatigue and guidance on fatigue management good practice.
Extended dry-docking allows vessels to be inspected out of the water at 7.5 years intervals, rather than 2 inspections in 5 years (no more than 36-month intervals), subject to eligibility.
Replaces the 2014 ISM regulations and assimilated regulations 336/2006 in implementing the ISM code in UK law. It also closes some legislative gaps, some of which arose due to EU exit.
Detailed lists of documents required to obtain a UK Certificate of Competency after passing your oral examination.
Fishing vessel certifying authorities authorised to conduct new build surveys of fishing vessels in accordance with MSN 1871 The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Fishing Vessels of less than 15m Length Overall; and r…
Course criteria for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Small Ships Navigation and Radar (SSNR) course.
The stability guidance booklets for masters and watch keepers for powered and sailing vessels
Supporting information for merchant navy medal applications, for eligible seafarers who served in a vessel used to support the UK armed forces in campaigns between 1939 to 1991.
This instrument revokes and replaces the existing regulations to implement the ISM code within the Merchant Shipping (International Safety Management (ISM) Code) Regulations 2014 in the UK.
Information describing the system to gain certificates to master workboats less than 500 GT operating in the unlimited area.
This MGN details guidance on safety management of recovery of persons from the water.
The code of safe practice for large commercial yachts, and a list of the main changes from previous version LY2.
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