Draft MIN 495 v.7

The Merchant Shipping (Boatmasters’ Qualifications, Crew and Hours of Work) Regulations 2015 – Local Regulations

Notice to all operators and masters of all vessels on inland waterways and on limited coastal operations.

This notice should be read in conjunction with MSN 1853 and replaces MGN 334 (M) and its Amendment.

Summary

This notice gives information on and navigation authorities’ local navigational requirements and byelaws, and where to obtain further information on them.

1. Introduction

1.1 The Merchant Shipping (Boatmasters’ Qualifications and Hours of Work) Regulations 2015 (The BML Regulations) came into force on XX XX 2015 and apply to masters of vessels operating on inland waterways and limited coastal areas1.

1.2 Full information on the structure and requirements of the BML Regulations are contained in Merchant Shipping Notice (MSN) 1853.

1.3 To ensure the safe conduct of navigation a Boatmaster must be aware of local information for the area they are operating in and comply with any local knowledge requirements for that area.

2. Definitions

2.1 “Local Information” means an awareness of the local navigational rules that a harbour or navigation authority may have in place under its local byelaws or regulations.

2.2 “Local Knowledge” means knowledge of the features and characteristics within an area that present a hazard to safe navigation, and how to deal with them. It also means a more detailed knowledge of the local requirements referred to in 2.2 above. Local Knowledge Endorsements (LKE) are covered in MSN 1853.

1 Details of the application and scope of these Regulations is contained within Section 2 of MSN 1853

2.3 “Inland Waterways” means all categorised waters as defined and listed in Merchant Shipping Notice 1837, as amended, and any other non-categorised inland waters.

2.4 “Limited coastal area” means an area of no more than 5 miles from land and no more than 15 miles from point of departure or arrival (excluding waters of category A, B, C or D).

3. Scope and application

3.1 As well as knowledge of the general “rules of the road” for navigation, a Boatmaster needs to be familiar with any local rules and regulations in force for the port or inland areas in which they operate. Therefore the Boatmaster must have an awareness of any navigational requirements, or restrictions, under a harbour or navigation authority’s local regulations or byelaws.

3.2 Candidates for the Tier 1 Boatmaster’s Licence will be tested on that awareness as a matter of course, as part of the on-board examination for their generic Licence. That testing will cover the local rules and byelaws for the area where they are being examined, and immediately adjacent waterways. If a Tier 1 Boatmasters’ Licence holder subsequently goes to different areas, they must develop the same awareness of the harbour/navigation authority’s local requirements for each area, as this is fundamental to safe navigation and good seamanship.

3.3 Candidates for the Tier 2 Licence will have to demonstrate similar awareness of local requirements for the area/s in which their on-board assessment takes place.

4. Local licences and Local Knowledge Endorsements

4.1 In areas where there is a local licence (eg a boatman’s licence), the holder of a relevant Boatmasters’ Licence (or certificate) will not be required to hold the local licence. (Pilotage requirements are not affected).

4.2 In areas where the Secretary of State had determined that an LKE is required the Boatmaster must hold the relevant LKE to operate in that area.

5. Local regulations notified to the MCA

5.1 Annex 1 below lists those authorities that have advised the MCA about their local regulations. It describes the area covered by the port/harbour authority (where that information has been provided), and provides contact details from where more information can be obtained.

5.2 The information in this notice is reviewed annually. Boatmasters should always contact the relevant port/harbour authority to confirm any updates to the information contained here

5.3 A port/harbour authority with an entry in this notice should contact the MCA to advise of any amendments. A port/harbour authority which would like their details included in this notice should contact the MCA.

Annex 1 Port/Harbour authority local requirements notified to MCA

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Aberaeron 52° 14.32’N 004° 16.21’W Ceredigion County None Ceredigion County Council 52° 14.72’N 004° 16.70’W Council Byelaws as to Harbourmaster’s Office 52° 15.17’N 004° 15.82’W seaside pleasure Town Quay, South Marine Terrace 52° 14.8’1N 004° 15.38’W boats. Aberystwyth, SY23 1DD T: 01970 611433 Aberaeron Harbour Act F: 01970 611433 1827 E: [email protected] Within the harbour and the Aberdeen Harbour Local Knowledge Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure seaward port limits as shown on General Bye-Laws Certificate Services) Admiralty Chart No 1446 for Boatmasters’ Cape House 21 Seafield Street Licence Holders Banff, AB45 1JN T:01261 813200 F:01261 812072 Aberdyfi As per chart in the Aberdyfi Aberdyfi (Aberdovey) - Boatman’s Licence Gwynedd Council (Aberdovey) Harbour Empowerment Order Byelaws - Proprietor’s Licence Pwllheli 1972 (in respect of the Gwynedd, LL53 5AA Aberdyfi Harbour vessel/s) T: 01758 704 066 Empowerment Order E: [email protected] 1972 www.gwynedd.gov.uk Abermaw From a line between Flagstaff at Abermaw (Barmouth) - Boatman’s Licence Gwynedd Council (Barmouth) 52º42.62N -004º3.2W and St. Byelaws - Proprietor’s Licence Pwllheli Johns Church Tower at (in respect of the Gwynedd, LL53 5AA 52º43.38N and 004º3.2W vessel/s) T: 01758 704 066 E: [email protected] www.gwynedd.gov.uk Aberystwyth 52° 25.40’N 004° 05.10’W Ceredigion County None Ceredigion County Council 52° 25.40’N 004° 06.10’W Council Byelaws as to Harbourmaster’s Office 52° 23.78’N 004° 06.33’W seaside pleasure Town Quay, South Marine Terrace 52° 23.78’N 004° 05.38’W boats. Aberystwyth, SY23 1DD T: 01970 611 433 Aberystwyth Harbour F: 01970 611 433 Act 1987 E: [email protected]

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Arbroath 56° 33° N, 2° 35° W. Arbroath Harbour None The Harbour Master (Angus Council) Byelaws 1997 Harbour Office, Ladybridge Street Arbroath, DD11 1PD T: 01241 872 166 and None Pilotage/PEC ABP Ayr and Troon requirement for any Ayr, Ayrshire, KA8 8AH vessel over 65m. T: 01292 281 687 F: 01292 287787 E: [email protected] Banff 57° 40’N 02° 31’W Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure Council Harbour Services) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 F: 01261 812072 Banff Harbour T: 01261 815 544 E:[email protected] Barrow 53° 59.8’N 003° 14.2’W Licence for up to 12 ABP Barrow Byelaws passenger boats Port Office 1985 issued by Barrow Road Borough Council. Barrow-in-, LA14 2TW ABP Barrow notices to T: 01229 822 911 Mariners Please check with F: 01229 835 822 BBC E: [email protected] Inside a line joining Grey Point Act Port of Belfast and Carrickfergus Castle 1847 Harbour Office, Corporation Square Belfast, Harbour Acts BT1 3AL (Northern T: 02890 554422 Ireland) 1970 F: 02890 553017 E: [email protected] Belfast Harbours Order 2002

Belfast Harbour Byelaws

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Blyth From the limits of Blyth Harbour Byelaws None Harbour Master to Old Harley Bay and Seaton South Harbour, Blyth Sluice Harbour General Directions Northumberland, NE24 3PB T: 01670 352 678 F: 01670 540 674 E: [email protected] Bridgwater Bridgwater Bay: Pilotage Directions None Port of Bridgewater (Port of Within a line drawn from Brean (vessels > 30m) Sedgemoor District Council Bridgwater) Down to Hinkley Point. River c/o C F Spencer & Co Ltd Parrett to Bridgwater; River Brue 1 Grove Road to Highbridge. Burnham-on-Sea, TA8 2HF T: 01934822666 E: [email protected] Bridlington Within a radius of ¾ cable off the Bridlington Harbour None Bridlington Harbour Commissioners end of the North Pier and South Commissioners Gummers Wharf Piers at Bridlington. Byelaws 1977, 1985 West End, Bridlington and 2013 East Yorkshire, YO15 3AN T: 01262 670148/9 F: 01262 602041 E: [email protected] Bridport Within 1000ft circle from end of None None West Dorset District Council old piers. 37 Glyde Path Road, Dorchester Dorset, DT1 1XZ T: 01305 251 010 F: 01305 252349 E: [email protected] www.westdorset-dc.goc.uk Bristol Limit of Port of Bristol shown on Bristol Port Company None The Bristol Port Company (The Bristol Port chart 1176 and the river Avon to Byelaws. Marine Department Company) the Port limit at Aston Avenue bridge shown on chart 1859 panel Bristol Port Company Bristol, BS11 9AT C. Marine Operations T: 01179 812 637 Procedures. F: 01179 381 927 E: [email protected] www.bristolport.co.uk

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Norfolk and As defined in the Norfolk and Norfolk and Suffolk Licence for up to 12 Broads Authority 62-64 Suffolk Broads Suffolk Broads Act 1988. Broads act 1988. passenger boats Thorpe Road, Broads Authority Act issued by Broads Norwich. 2009. Authority. Norfolk, Vessel Dimension NR1 1RY, UK Byelaws 1995, T: 01603 610734 Navigation Byelaws 1995, Vessel Registration Byelaws 1997, Speed Limit Byelaws 1992 Caernarfon Strait area: The Caernarfon None Harbour Office Harbour Byelaws 1991 Slate Quay, Caernarfon Southwestern Limit: Gwynedd, LL55 2PB An imaginary line joining ositions Pilotage Directions T: 01286 672118 53º 09.6’ N 004º 25.7’W F: 01286 678729 (Malltraeth Bay); 53º 05.0’N 004 Local Notices to E: [email protected] 32.15’W (Caernarfon bay) and Mariners www.caernarfonharbour.co.uk 53º00.55’N 004º 23.58’W (Afon Hen, Clynnog). Caernarfon Bar Buoy positions (current) Northeastern Limit: The Britannia Bridge Swellies Guide

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Cardiff For boats operating to or Cardiff, Newport, Barry, All vessels over 25m ABP Cardiff between ABP within the Port Talbot, Swansea carrying Queen Alexandra House CHA area; and Newport Harbour hydrocarbons in bulk Cargo Road Byelaws and or more than 12 Cardiff, CF10 4LY The waters of the Bristol Channel Passengers are T: 0870 609 6699 bounded seawards by a straight ABP South Wales subject to compulsory F: 029 2083 5001 line drawn from the lighthouse at Pilotage Directions Pilotage Direction E: [email protected] Hartland Point to the southern lighthouse on Lundy Island and General Direction All vessels over 85m then through Caldy island subject to compulsory Lighthouse to the mainland and Pilotage Direction landwards by a straight line drawn from Gold cliff point to Walton Boatman’s licence bay Signal Station including the required to trade enclosed docks of Barry Cardiff, between/ to ABP Newport, Swansea, Port Talbot ( Ports within the and Harbour) and the Newport district the exception Harbour Authority Area of being Authority Pilot Jurisdiction. cutters where qualification may be determined by the Harbour Authority under the relevant code Chichester Within a line drawn from Eastoke Chichester Harbour Act Local Boatman’s The Harbour Office (Chichester Point to the spire of West 1971 Licence for up to 12 Itchenor, Chichester Harbour Wittering church passenger vessels. West Sussex, PO20 7AW Conservancy) Byelaws RYA certificate- T: 01243 512 301 based. F: 01243 513 026 E: [email protected] www.conservancy.co.uk

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Clyde, including Peelports-Clydeport Including Firth of Clyde Marine Peelports-Clydeport Operations The Dockyard Naval Dockyard/Local Authority Leisure Guide Greenock Ocean Terminal Port and other Areas extends from the Tidal Weir Patrick Street Authority at the Albert Bridge in the City of Clyde Navigation Greenock Waters Glasgow to a line across the lower Byelaws PA16 8UU. part of the Firth of Clyde drawn T: 01475 726221 East from Corriegills Point ( 55* Clydeport Notices to F: 01475 727006 34.33 N, 5* 06.54 W ) to the Mariners E: [email protected] Ayrshire coast, and to a line www.peelports.com drawn West from Newton Point on the North West coast of Arran (55* 42.6 N, 5* 17.6 W ) to the Kintyre coast across Kilbrannan Sound, as marked on Chart 2131. Conwy Within a line drawn from Mussel Conwy Harbour (Local Boatman’s Harbour Master Hill to Tremlyd Point Revision Order 1982 Licence for up to 12 Conwy County Borough Council passenger vessels) Harbour Office, The Quay Conwy, LL32 8BB T: 01492 596 253 F: 01492 585 222 E: [email protected] Cowes Cowes Harbour and the River Cowes Harbour - Boatman’s Licence Cowes Harbour Commission Medina from the Royal Yacht Commission General - Proprietors Licence Harbour Office, Town Quay Squadron Haven to the Folly Inn Directions January 2015 (in respect of the Cowes, Isle of Wight vessels) PO31 7AS T: 01983 293952 F: 01983 299357 Dee Jurisdiction extends Dee Conservancy Act None Dee Conservancy Harbour Master Conservancy from Wilcox Point at 1889 Natural Resources Wales the outskirts of Pilotage / PEC >20M Chester Road Chester to an (HRO is pending - final by Port of Mostyn, Buckley imaginary line drawn discussions on ‘minded see: Flintshire at the seaward end to’ letter are in progress www.portofmostyn.c CH7 3AJ of the estuary with DfT). o.uk T: 01244 371428 between Point of Ayr E. [email protected] in Wales and Hilbre Point in .

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 The enclosed harbour and to Dover Harbour Board General seawards 1.0nm of the Directions Harbour House, breakwaters Marine Parade Port of Dover Dover, Bunkering Code of CT17 9BU Practice T: 01304 240400 Notices to Mariners E: [email protected] www.doverport.co.uk Port of Dover Pilotage Direction No.4 Port of A line drawn South from The Tay Byelaws and Port of Dundee Forth & Tay Navigation Service (FTNS) Limited Burnmouth of Invergowrie to the General Directions Towage Licence for Marine Operations Building location where the Monestary of those craft engaged South Shore Road Balmerino once stood, east along Port of Dundee Notice in towage operations Grangemouth the mean high water spring line to Mariners FK3 8TQ continuing on a line which T.01324498584 intersects Tentsmuir point east to Towage Guidelines F.0132466 Longitude 238’W and North to Latitude 2629’W and east to Tay Pilotage Direction [email protected] mean high water springs at www.forthports.co.uk Buddonness and hence along mean high water springs line to the western limits. Falmouth Inner Harbour at Falmouth Falmouth Harbour None (except PEC – Falmouth Harbour Commissioners (excluding ), the Byelaws see 44 Awenack Street Penryn River up as far as Boyers Pilotage Direction Falmouth, TR11 3JQ Cellars, the southern part of the Notices to Mariners No. 5) T: 01326 213537 and a large part of E: [email protected] Falmouth Bay. Pilotage Directions www.falmouthport.co.uk See Harbour Sailing Fleetwood Harbour & None ABP Fleetwood, Directions Docks Byelaws 1982 Dock Office, Fleetwood, Lancs., FY7 6PP Harbour Sailing T: 01253 872 323 Directions F: 01253 777549 E: [email protected]

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 A line drawn transversely to the Forth Bylaws and Forth Ports Towage Forth & Tay Navigation Service (FTNS) Authority River and Firth of Forth from a General Directions Licence for those Marine Operations Building point on its west bank south of craft engaged in South Shore Road the West Pier at the Abbey Ferry Towage Guidelines towage operations Grangemouth at Stirling and shall extend down FK3 8TQ both banks of the River and Firth Firth of Forth Notice to T: 01324 498584 of Forth at a level of high water to Mariners F: 0132466 a line drawn from the North Carr E: [email protected] Beacon in the county of Fife to Forth Pilotage Direction www.forthports.co.uk the South Carr Beacon in the county of East Lothian Fowey Lostwithiel road bridge to a line Fowey Harbour (Local Boatmans’ Fowey Harbour Commissioners drawn between Punches Cross Byelaws 1996 Licence for up to 12 Harbour Office, Albert Quay and St Catherines Castle. passenger vessels) Fowey, Harbour Revision Order PL23 1AJ 1980 T: 01726 832 471 Harbour Order 2001 F: 01726 833 738 (1933/69) E: [email protected] www.foweyharbour.co.uk Notices to Mariners Fraserburgh 57° 41’56N 2° 00’W to: Fraserburgh Harbour None Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners 57° 42’52N 2° 00’09W to: Byelaws Harbour Office, Shore Street 57° 42’22N 1° 57’51W to: Fraserburgh AB43 9BR 57°40’37N 1°57’51W to: T: 01346 515 858 57° 40’32N 1° 57’48W F: 01346 516 641 E: [email protected] Garston The part of Garston Channel Being revised None ABP Garston (Liverpool) extending 1km (0.62 mile) NW Port Office, Garston from Stalbridge Lock. Liverpool, L19 2JW T: 0151 427 5971 F: 0151 494 3232 E: [email protected]

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Gloucester Part of the Severn Estuary from Byelaws 1998 None Gloucester Harbour Trustees points seaward of the Second Harbour Revision Navigation House Severn Crossing, the tidal Orders 1994 and 2002 Pilotage is The Docks, River Severn to the weirs at General Directions compulsory for any Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9UD Maisemore, Llanthony Pilotage Directions vessel of 30m or T: 01453 811 913 (Gloucester) and the tidal River Notices to Mariners over, or carrying >12 F: 01453 810 381 Wye to Bigsweir Bridge. passengers, or E: mike.johnson@ hazardous/dangerous gloucesterharbourtrustees.org.uk cargoes www.gloucesterharbourtrustees.org.uk Gourdon 56° 49’N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure 02° 17’W Council Harbour Services) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 F: 01261 812072 Gourdon Harbour T: 01569 762 741 E: [email protected] Royal, Union, and Alexandra Grimsby Dock Byelaws None ABP Grimsby Harbour Authority Commercial Docks; numbers 1, 2 (Marine Office) and 3 Fish Docks, and extending Port Marine Operations Port Office 500 yards from those docks Manual Cleethorpes Road seawards. Grimsby Humber Byelaws Lincolnshire DN31 3LL River & Port notices to T: 01472 253 609 Mariners F: 01472 242 499 Hamble The river. River Hamble Byelaws Local licence for Harbour Master (River Hamble 1983 operators of up to 12 River Hamble Harbour Authority Harbour) passenger vessels. Shore Road Issued by Eastleigh Warsash, SO31 9FR Borough Council. T: 01489 576 387 F: 01489 580 718 www.hants.gov.uk/hambleharbour

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Harwich River Stour; Harwich Harbour and Byelaws Local Boatman’s Harwich Haven Authority harbour approached from Licence (for up to 12 Harbour House, The Quay Shipwash Bank. General Directions passengers) Harwich, ,CO12 3HH T: 01255 243 030 VTS Information F: 01255 241 302 E: [email protected] Notices to Mariners www.hha.co.uk Helford River The river. Exemption Areas Local Boatman’s Kerrier District Council Licence (for up to 12 Council Offices, Dolcoath Avenue Speed Limits passengers) Camborne, Cornwall, TR14 8SX T: 01209 614 000 F: 01209 614 491 E: [email protected] www.kerrier.gov.uk Heysham Between the North side of a line Heysham Port Byelaws Pilotage/PEC only Heysham Port Ltd (Heysham Port drawn from Point to (vessels over 50m North Quay, Heysham Ltd) Walney Lighthouse, and the LOA) Lancashire, LA3 2XF East side of a line drawn from T: 01524 852 373 Rossal Point to Cowper point. F: 01524 853 301 Humber, Ouse River Humber, Ouse seaward of Humber Navigation None ABP Hull and Trent Skelton Railway Bridge and Trent Byelaws 1990 PO Box 1, Port House (Humber Estuary seaward of Gainsborough Stone Northern Gateway Services) Bridge. General Directions Hull, HU9 5PQ Humber Pilotage T: 01482 327 171 Directions F: 01482 608 434 E: [email protected] www.humber.com Immingham enclosed dock and Immingham Dock None ABP Immingham Harbour Authority associated jetties: from the Byelaws (Marine Office) Immingham Gas Jetty to the Port Office, Cleethorpes Road West, to the Immingham Oil Port Marine Operations Grimsby Terminal to the East, and Manual Lincolnshire extending 200 yards seawards. DN31 3LL Humber Byelaws River T: 01469 570 505 & Port Notices to F: 01469 571 559 Mariners

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Inverness Eastern limit: a line from General and Pilotage None Port of Inverness Chanonry Point to Fort George. Byelaws Harbour Office, Longman Drive Western limit: a line drawn NW Inverness, IV1 1SU from the west arm of the canal T: 01463 715 715 sea loch to the North Kessock F: 01463 715 705 shore line. E: [email protected] None ABP Ipswich Old Custom House, Key Street Ipswich, IP4 1BY T: 01473 231010 F: 01473 230914 www.abports.co.uk Johnshaven 56° 47’N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure 02° 20’W Council Harbour Sevices) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 F: 01261 812072 Johnshaven Harbour T: 01569 762741 E: [email protected] Kings Lynn Kings Lynn enclosed Docks and Kings Lynn Docks & None ABP Kings Lynn River Great Ouse within 100 Railway Company St Ann’s Fort yards of ABP property, centred Byelaws Kings Lynn on: 54° 45.6’N 0° 23.4’E Norfolk, PE30 1QS T: 01553 691 555 F: 01553 761 335

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Langstone North of a line between Gunner Langstone Harbour Pilotage is Langstone Harbour Board Point & Eastney Point Byelaws (1994) compulsory for Ferry Road, Hayling Island vessels over 20m Hants, PO11 0DG Langstone Harbour carrying more than T: 02392463419 Pilotage Direction 12 passengers F: 02392467144 E:[email protected] Larne North Limit: Within lines from: Larne Harbour Byelaws None Port of Larne Black Cave to South Hunter Rock 9 Olderfleet Road, Larne Buoy, to Skernaghen Point, to Larne Harbour Order Northern Ireland, BT40 1AS Barr point, to Ferris Point. (Northern Ireland) 1998 T: 028 2887 2100 South limit: Within lines from: F: 028 2887 2209 Curran Point to Islandmaggee Port Operational E: [email protected] 090° N 270° W Procedures www.portoflarne.co.uk

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 From Teddington Lock to General (Port of London seaward limit Port of London Directions London River House Authority) Authority area. Royal Pier Road Pilotage Directions Thames Byelaws DA12 2BG Dangerous Substances T: 01474 562 269/562 383 in Bulk Byelaws www.portoflondon.co.uk Craft & Boat Registration and For hard copies of byelaws etc. regulation Byelaws E: [email protected]

Permanent Notices to Mariners

Code of Practice for Safe Mooring on the Thames

Code of Practice for Ship Towage Operations on the Thames

Code of Practice for Craft Towage Operations on the Thames

Code of Practice for Passenger Vessel Operations on the Thames

Voluntary Code of Practice for Tug Utilisation on the Thames

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Londonderry Within a line from Magilligan Point and None Londonderry Port to the fort at Greencastle, then to Harbour Byelaws 2005 Harbour Office, Port Road

Craigavon Bridge in Londonderry. Local Notices to Lisahally, Londonderry Mariners Northern Ireland, BT47 6FL T: 028 7186 0555 Code of Practice for F: 028 7186 1168 Marine Operations E: [email protected] Lyme Regis Lyme Regis Frontage: Beacon None None Lyme Regis Harbour Post Rocks to Cobb Gate Jetty. c/o Engineering Division West Dorset District Council 37 Glyde Path Road Dorchester, DT1 1XZ Lymington Lymington River estuary out to a Lymington Harbour None Lymington Harbour Commissioners line between Jack in the Basket Byelaws Harbour Office, Bath Road and the Starting Platform Lymington, Hants, SO41 3SE T: 01590 672 014 F: 01590 671 823 E: [email protected] www.lymingtonharbour.co.uk MacDuff 57° 40’N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure 02° 30W Council Harbour Services) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 Macduff Harbour T: 01261 832236 E: [email protected]

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Medway Buoy to Allington Lock Medway Ports River Medway & Swale Tug Medway Ports (Medway Ports) (River Medway), and Byelaws 1991 Licence Sheerness Docks

Queenborough Spit Buoy to Medway Ports General Sheerness Shellness (River Swale). Directions for Kent Navigation 1991 ME 12 1RS T: 01795 596 596 Medway Ports Pilotage F: 01795 660 072 Directions 2003 Telex. 96435

Medway Ports Pilotage Exemption Certificate 2003

Medway Ports Pilotage Rules for Tugs 2003 Milford Haven Include the western extremity of Milford Haven Harbour None Milford Haven Port Authority Studdock Point to 51o36’15”N, Bye-Laws Gorsewood Avenue, Milford Haven 005o03’00”W, then to 51o36’15”N, Milford Haven Port Pembrokeshire, SA73 3ER 005o16’00”W, then to 51o40’48”N, Authority Pilotage E: [email protected] 005o16’00”W then to the SW Directions and General www.mhpa.co.uk extremity of St Anne’s Head. Directions 2006 Port of Milford Haven Entry and Departure The level of High Water on the Guideline for Vessels shores of Milford Haven other than a dock which is normally enclosed

Newport (South Within a line from Goldcliff Point Port & Harbour of None Newport Harbour Commissioners Wales) and Peterstone, and upriver to Newport Byelaws 1990 24 Bridge Street, Newport Newbridge on Usk. South Wales T: 01633 265 702 F: 01633 258 431 New Quay 52° 13.14’N 004° 21.82’W None None Ceredigion County Council (Ceredigion) 52° 13.09’N 004° 20.29’W Harbourmaster’s Office 52° 12.85’N 004° 19.98’W Town Quay, South Marine Terrace Aberystwyth, SY23 1DD T: 01970 611 433 F: 01970 611 433 E: [email protected]

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Newquay New Quay Harbour Act None Restormel Borough Council (Cornwall) 1835 and Harbour 39 Penwinnick Road, St Austell Revisionary Order Cornwall, PL25 5DR Padstow Within a line joining Stepper Padstow Harbour None Padstow Harbour Commissioners Point, Gulland Rock, and Pentire Navigational Guide The Harbour Office, Padstow Point. Cornwall, PL28 8AQ T: 01841 532 239 F: 01841 533 346 E: [email protected] www.padstow-harbour.co.uk Penryn West of a line between Boyers Byelaws for the Local Boatman’s Cornwall Council (Cornwall Cellars and Sailors Creek. protection and Licence for up to 12 Maritime Section, The Harbour Office Council) regulation of navigation passenger vessels Town Quay, within Truro Harbour only Cornwall, TR1 2HJ and Penryn Harbour. T: 01872 272 130 / 224 231 F: 01872 225 346 Byelaws relating to the E: [email protected] licensing and regulating www.portoftruro.co.uk of boats and boatmen, and the conduct of boatmen, ferrymen and others within Truro Harbour and Penryn Harbour Peterhead Within 1.5 nautical miles to Peterhead Bay Harbour None Peterhead Bay Authority seaward of the harbour entrance. Byelaws 1984 Bath House Bath Street Peterhead Bay Harbour Peterhead, AB24 1DX trust and Transfer T: 01779 474 020 Order 1983 E: [email protected] www.peterhead-bay.co.uk Peterhead Bay Authority (Constitution) Revision Order 2002

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Penzance Limits are the outer harbour walls. Penzance Harbour None Penzance Harbour Authority Byelaws Harbour Office North Arm, Wharf Road Penzance TR18 4AH T: 01736 366113 F: 01736 366114 E: [email protected] 50° 22’N Harbour Byelaws None ABP Plymouth (Associated 50° 21.7N Port Office, Docks British Ports) 004° 09.5’W Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3EF 004° 09’ W T: 01752 662 191 F: 01752 825 624 Plymouth All waters within a line from Cattewater Harbour Council Boatman Port of Plymouth (Cattewater Fishers nose to the end of Mount Byelaws Licence (for up to 12 Cattewater Harbour Commission Harbour Batten breakwater and upstream passenger boats) 2 The Barbican Commission) as far as Laira Bridge on the river Plymouth local Notices Plymouth, PL1 2LR Plym; including Hooe Lake but to Mariners T: 01752 665934 excluding Sutton Harbour F: 01752 253624 The Dockyard Port of E: [email protected] Plymouth Order 1999 Plymouth All tidal waters within a line from Dockyard Port Queen’s Harbour Master (Dockyard Port Rame Head south-easterly to a Regulations Act 1865 Longroom House of Plymouth) point 1.25 nautical miles from RM Stonehouse Rame Church north-easterly to Dockyard Port of Plymouth the Shag Stone and then east to Plymouth Order 1999 PL1 3RT the shore T: 01752 836490 Plymouth Local Notices to Mariners

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Approximately from Bar Buoy Poole Harbour Byelaws Local waterman’s Poole Harbour Commissioners no.1 inwards. Licence (for up to 12 Harbour Master’s Department Poole Harbour Acts passenger boats) Harbour Office, 20 New Quay Road 1756 to 2002 (Under Poole, Dorset, BH15 4AF process of being T: 01202 440210 review) F: 01202 440212 E: [email protected] Local Notices to www.phc.co.uk Mariners

General Directions Porthmadog As per the chart referred to in the Porthmadog Byelaws Boatman’s Licence Gwynedd Council Porthmadog Harbour Pwllheli Empowerment Order 1998 Proprietor’s Licence Gwynedd, LL53 5AA (in respect of the T: 01758 704 066 vessel/s) E: [email protected] www.gwynedd.gov.uk Portland Portland Inner Harbour and the The Portland Harbour Portland Harbour Authority Limited Harbour area outside the Harbour as lies Revision Order 1997 Authority Skippers Castletown Authority to the west of a straight line Permit for pleasure Portland drawn from a point at 50° General Directions craft carrying fare Dorset DT5 1PP 32.922N 002°24.867W(Grove paying passengers. T: 01305 824044 point, Portland) to a point Notices to Mariners. F: 01305 826143 50°37.450N 002°19.317W (White E:www.portland-port.co.uk Nothe, Weymouth) but excluding Weymouth Harbour.

Portsmouth Approx 50 Sq miles including Dockyard Port of Queen’s Harbour Master East Solent. The area from a line Order 2005 Semaphore Tower drawn between Hill Head and Old HM Naval Base Castle Point (Isle of Wight) to a Portsmouth, PO1 3LT point about 5° E off the coast of T: 023 927 23124 Bembridge (Isle of Wight). F: 023 927 22831

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Portsoy Harbour 57 o 41’ N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure 2 o 41’ “ Council Harbour Services) Bylaws 1990 Cape House 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1JN T 01261 813483 F 01261 812072

Portsoy Harbour T 01261 815544 E:[email protected] v.uk Pwllheli Pwllheli Byelaws Boatman’s Licence Gwynedd Council Pwllheli Proprietor’s Licence Gwynedd, LL53 5AA (in respect of the T: 01758 704 066 vessel/s) E: [email protected] www.gwynedd.gov.uk Rosehearty 57° 42’N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Transport & 02° 07’W Council Harbour Infrastructure) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 Rosehearty Harbour T: 01346 571796 Ryde Within the harbour only. Byelaws Boatman’s Licence Ryde Harbour (for up to 12 The Esplanade, Ryde Visitors Guide to Ryde passenger vessels) Isle of Wight, PO33 1JA Harbour T: 01983 613 879 E: [email protected]

Scrabster Port Limits Scrabster Harbour None Scrabster Harbour Trust Harbour Byelaws Harbour Office, Scrabster Caithness, KW14 7UJ T: 01847 892779 E: [email protected] www.scrabster.co.uk

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Seaton Sluice The harbour. Seaton Sluice Harbour None Coastal Warden Harbour User Regulations and Blyth Valley Borough Council Mooring Conditions Cowley Road, Blyth Industrial Estate Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 5TF No vessels > 30ft T: 01670 797 323 allowed in harbour F: 01670 542 449 E:[email protected] .uk St Marys An imaginery line drawn from None The Harbour Office, Harbour Newford Island to Newman Point The Quay, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0HU T: 01720 422768 F: 01720 423890 E: [email protected] Salcombe Within a line from Limebury to Salcombe Harbour Local Boatmans’ South Hams District Council Splatt Cove Byelaws Licence (for up to 12 Harbour Office passengers vessels) Salcombe Pier and Harbour Devon Salcombe TQ8 8BU (Confirmation Act) 1954 Within Dock limits and up to 1000 Silloth Dock Act 1855 Boatmans’ Licence ABP Silloth, Harbour Master yards outside. Harbour, Docks and Dock Office Piers Act 1847 Silloth CA7 4JQ T: 01697 331 358 F: 01697 332 709 As shown on the map annexed to Southampton Harbour None ABP Southampton the Southampton Harbour Byelaws 2003 Ocean Gate, Atlantic Way Byelaws. Southampton,SO14 3QN T: 023 80 488 800 F: 023 80 336 402 www.southamptonspin.co.uk/content/a bpreference.asp

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Stonehaven 56° 58’N Grampian Regional None Aberdeenshire Council (Infrastructure 02° 12’W Council Harbour Services) Byelaws 1990 Cape House, 21 Seafield Street Banff, AB45 1ED T: 01261 813200 Stonehaven Harbour T: 01569 762741 E: [email protected] Stornoway 58° 10.31’N 006° 22.34’W to Byelaws None Stornoway Port Authority 58° 10.31’N 006° 18.39’W to Amity House, Esplanade Quay 58° 11.57’N to 006° 18.39’W to Revision Order (both Stornoway 58° 11.44’N to 006° 19.05’W, currently under review) Western Isles, HS1 2XS following the level of high water to T: 01851 702688 58° 11.21’N 006° 21.06’W F: 01851 705714 Sullom Voe The entire area of Yell Sound General Byelaws 2002 None Sullom Voe Port Authority Port Administration Building General Directions Sellaness, Sullom Voe Shetland, ZE2 9QR Pilot Directions T: 01806 244200 24hr T: 01806 242344 F: 01806 244220 www.shetland.gov.uk/ports

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Sunderland (a) An area bounded to the north Sunderland Corporation None Port of Sunderland Authority, Capstan by an imaginary line extending Act, 1972 House, from the promontory or point Greenwells Quay, South Docks, described on the 1.25000 Port of Sunderland Barrack Street, ordnance map of Sunderland Byelaws, 1978 Sunderland, SR1 2BU (Provisional Edition, sheet NZ 36) T: 0191 553 2100 as Souter Point in the direction of T: 0191 514 2752 (24-hours) 80° 00' (from T.N.) into the sea for F: 0191 553 2120 a distance of 1,600 feet from the F: 0191 553 2145 (24-hours) line of high water shown on that E:[email protected] map and bounded to the south by ov.uk an imaginary line extending from www.portofsunderland.org.uk the point marked " B.P." immediately to the south of the mouth of Ryhope Dene on the said ordnance map of Sunderland (Provisional Edition, sheet NZ 35) in the direction of 81° 55' (from T.N.) into the sea for a distance of 3,650 feet from the line of high water shown on that map and bounded to the east by an imaginary line between the eastern extremities of the lines described above; and

(b) the docks; and

(c) the river, namely: so much of the river Wear as extends from an imaginary line (drawn across that river near

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Tarbert As per admiralty chart 2381 Byelaws None Tarbert Harbourmasters Office (Loch Fyne) Tarbert Harbour, Tarbert Argyll, A29 6UD Teesport 54° 45’N N 01° 13.30’ W Harbour Byelaws None PD Teesport (PD Teesport) 54° 39.18’ N 01° 00.42’ W General Directions Harbour Master’s Office 54° 37.30’ N 01° 04.01’ W Tees Dock, Grangetown Middlesbrough, TS6 6UD T: 01642 277 201 F: 01642 277 227 E: [email protected] 100ft seaward of quay walls. The Teignmouth Quay None ABP Teignmouth (Associated Co. Ltd Byelaws 1951 Old Quay, Teignmouth, TQ14 8ES British Ports T: 01626 774 044 (ABP)) F: 01626 776 240 E: [email protected] www.abports.co.uk Teignmouth Teignmouth lies on the north side Teignmouth Harbour None Teignmouth Harbour Commission (Teignmouth of the River Teign. Byelaws 1985 Old Quay House, Old Quay, Harbour Position: Latitude 50 33 N Teignmouth Commission) Longitude 3 30 W General Directions Devon. TQ14 8ES Admiralty Charts: Numbers 26 T: 01626 773 165 (Harbours on South Coast of F: 01626 778 937 Devon) and 3315 (Berry Head to E: [email protected] Bill of Portland). www.teignmouthharbour.com Tenby Within the area bounded by a line Tenby Harbour None Pembrokeshire Bounty Council drawn from Monkstone Point to Byelaws 1975 Harbour Office the point 500 metres due East of Castle Square Skier Rock, off St Catherines Tenby Harbour Tenby Island, then continuing for Revision Order 1975 Pembrokeshire SA70 7BW 100m. A second line from that T: 01834 842 717 point to a point on South Beach, F: 01834 844 224 where the line of high water E: [email protected] meets Iron Bar Steps.

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Impounded waters within Tilbury Byelaws Pemit required for all The London Ltd Dock. vessels maneuvering Leslie Ford House, Tilbury Freeport within the dock Tilbury, Essex, RM18 7EH T: 01375 852 456

E: [email protected] www.forthports.co.uk/ports/tilbury Truro North of a line from Messack Byelaws for the Local Boatman’s Cornwall Council (Cornwall Point to Penharrow Point (Tarra protection and Licence for up to 12 Maritime Section Council) Point), excluding Restronguet regulation of navigation passenger vessels The Harbour Office Creek. within Truro Harbour only Town Quay, Truro and Penryn Harbour. Cornwall, TR1 2HJ T: 01872 272 130 / 224 231 Byelaws relating to the F: 01872 225 346 licensing and regulating E: [email protected] of boats and boatmen, www.portoftruro.co.uk and the conduct of boatmen, ferrymen and others within Truro Harbour and Penryn Harbour. Warrenpoint As on Admiralty Chart 2800 Byelaws None Warrenpoint Harbour Authority The Docks Local Notices to Warrenpoint, County Down Mariners Northern Ireland, BT34 3JR T: 028 417 73381 Advice Notices F: 028 417 52875 W: [email protected] Port Marine Safety www.warrenpointharbour.co.uk Code Notices Wells All waters inside numbers 1 and 2 Harbour Master’s None Wells Harbour Commissioners (Norfolk) buoys. (Charts AC 108 Imray Directions Harbour Office, Old Lifeboat House C28, Y9 OS 132.) West Quay, Wells-next-the-Sea Norfolk, NR23 1AT T: 01328 711 646 F: 01328 710 623 www.wellsharbour.co.uk

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Weymouth As per Admiralty Chart 2455 Weymouth Harbour Local Waterman’s Harbour Office Harbour Byelaws Licence (for up to 12 Weymouth & Portland Borough passenger vessels) Council Local Notices to 13 Custom House Quay Mariners Weymouth Dorset DT4 8BG Tel – 01305 838423 B.Office3@Westdorset- weymouth.gov.uk http://harbour.weymouth.gov.uk Whitstable As per the chart in section13 of Whitstable Harbour None City Council the Whitstable Harbour Act 1957 Byelaws 2008 Harbour Office, Whitstable Harbour Whitstable, CT5 1AB T: 01227 274 086 E: [email protected] www.canterbury.gov.uk Port of Inside the break water and an Port of Workington None Port of Workington Workington area enclosed within Marine safety Prince of Wales Dock management system. Workington Approach positions 54’40.17N Cumbria ,CA14 2HJ 003’35.44W General Bylaws. T: 01900 602 301 F: 01900 604 696 E: [email protected] 54’39.42N 003’36.59W Harbour revision order www.portofworkington.com 1999. Shore line positions 54’39.31N 003’33.79W Port of Workington shipping safety 54’38.29N 003’34.41W regulations.

Harbour/ Location/ Limits of Local Regulations/ Local Licence Navigation jurisdiction Byelaws information requirements Details available from Authority (where available) returned at 1 January 2007 Yarmouth The outer Harbour; Yarmouth Harbour Boatman’s licence The Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Harbour (Isle of Wight) commencing at a point 50° Commissioners Commissioners 42.38’N, 001° 31.00’W, and General Directions The Quay, Yarmouth terminating at a point 50° 2012 Isle of Wight, PO41 0NT 42.57’N, 001° 31.00’W; T: 01983 760 321 commencing at a point 50° F: 01983 761 192 42.57’N, 001° 31.00’W, and E: [email protected] terminating at a point 50° www.yarmouth-harbour.co.uk 42.86’N, 001° 29.88’W; commencing at a point 50° 42.86’N, 001° 29.88’W and terminating at a point 50° 42.38’N, 001° 29.82’W;