Guidance

Weather broadcasts and maritime safety information: leaflets

UK broadcasts of marine weather forecasts and maritime safety information for all UK seafarers.

From:
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Published
1 January 2010
Last updated
14 April 2022 — See all updates

Documents

Maritime safety information leaflet

Ref: MCA/064

PDF, 274 KB, 10 pages

Maritime safety information (MSI) reduced service: BBC Radio 4 weather bulletins - 6 May 2022

HTML

Details

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is responsible in the UK for broadcasting maritime safety information (MSI).

These leaflets provide information about:

  • schedules for routine NAVTEX and radio telephony (RT) broadcast times
  • medical advice link calls

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2010
Last updated 14 April 2022 + show all updates

  1. Updated MSI reduced service information for Friday 6 May 2022 - the 00:48 and 05:20 Shipping Forecasts will be transmitted on Radio 4 LW only and not FM.

  2. Updated dates

  3. Updated MSI reduced service information for the period form Monday 21 March 2022 to Sunday 27 March 2022: Weekdays - the 05:20 Shipping Forecast will be transmitted at the later time of 05:33:30. Weekends - the 05:20 Shipping Forecast will be transmitted at the later time of 05:34.

  4. Updated MSI reduced service information for Monday 21/03/2022 - the 05:20 Shipping Forecast will be transmitted at the later time of 05:33:30.

  5. Added new broadcast information commencing Tuesday 15 March.

  6. Added new forecast commencing Saturday 8th January

  7. New broadcast information

  8. Removed January 2021 broadcast times

  9. Uploaded new weather bulletins April 2021

  10. Uploaded revised MSI Radio 4 reduced service bulletin

  11. Uploaded revised times to radio 4 weather bulletins

  12. BBC Radio 4 broadcast times July 2020 (PDF) COVID-19: BBC Radio 4 broadcast times (PDF) These have been removed as they are no longer relevant

  13. Uploaded MSI amended service: BBC Radio 4 weather bulletin

  14. Uploaded new Maritime and Safety Information notice

  15. New MSI leaflet uploaded (June 2018)

  16. New version uploaded

  17. New MSI leaflet uploaded

  18. Important changes to VHF channels for maritime safety information broadcasts From Wednesday 6 September 2017 (after 08.10 hours) HM Coastguard will be using new channels to broadcast Maritime Safety Information (MSI) and conduct radio medical advice. The new channels will be VHF 62, 63 and 64. The use of VHF Channel 10 for MSI and pollution control (back up) is unchanged.

  19. Updated leaflet

  20. Updated leaflet uploaded

  21. Leaflet updated as of 28/10/14

  22. First published.

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