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A single email set Alfie Allen on course for a seafaring career that has led him to win the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's (MCA) Officer Trainee of the Year Award 2025.

• Updated: 3 February 2026

Guidance for applying for a Deck CoC for Commercial and Private Yachts.

• Updated: 7 November 2023

Find out what you need to do when hiring crew to work on a ship or yacht - qualifications, certificates of competency, crew agreements and crew lists

• Overview

  When you’re hiring crew for a ship or yacht, you must: check crew members’…

• Checking crew qualifications

  You must check crew members’ discharge books to make sure everyone has the…

• Certificates of competency

  You must follow international regulations from Standards in Training…

• Crew agreements

  A crew agreement is an employment contract between a ship or yacht’s…

• Travel documents

  All crew members must have either: a valid passport a Seafarers Identity…

• Crew lists

  The master or skipper of a UK-registered ship must provide the ship’s…

Find out what certain terms mean that are connected to employee travel.

• Updated: 16 May 2025

Who are the Windrush Generation, how life is for them today and notable people of Caribbean heritage.

• Updated: 11 March 2025

This collection brings together the guidance on handling applications made outside the UK from crew members used by UK Visas and Immigration.

• Updated: 17 December 2013

Data on gifts and hospitality received by senior officials, and meetings they attended with senior media figures.

• Updated: 16 October 2018

This MIN outlines recent changes to the electronic reporting requirement for counting persons on board passenger ships.

• Updated: 28 October 2025

Data on gifts and hospitality received by senior officials, and meetings they attended with senior media figures.

• Updated: 16 October 2018

• Updated: 21 December 2022