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This MGN replaces MGN 538 (M), as amended.
Applicable to davit launched lifeboats fitted with on-load release hooks, and any similar on-load release systems if fitted to rescue boats
This document highlights urgent action to be taken by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and makes a recommendation to users of small craft.
High fine sends warning message to those with unregistered boats. Patrols on Thames have already begun for summer 2024.
The MCA would like to seek feedback from the public and small craft industry on some recent clarifications which will address a gap in the regulatory framework for temporary commercial use either for Business Purposes or as a Race Support...
Maintenance intervals of portable fire extinguishers.
Location: The Kattegat, Scandinavia.
Location: Twll-A- Dyllyn (or the Devil’s Hole), Ramsey Island, Wales.
Location: Ardintoul Point, Loch Alsh, Scotland.
Location: English Channel on passage to Portsmouth, England.
Calculating the tonnage of multihull (under 24m) vessels in advance of the wider publication to Instructions to Surveyors.
Location: Mill Rock, off Troon, Scotland.
A safety message to the fishing industry about the importance of distinguishing between routine pumping and an emergency situation.
Location: 0.1 nm south east of Burra Voe, Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland.
High-speed craft are known to suffer some degree of difficulty in following and quartering seas, including behaviour surfing, bow diving and broaching.
Location: 2 miles east of Aberdeen harbour.
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