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Safety codes of practice for small (up to 24m) vessels
Construction - fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction
UK and international codes and standards for vessel stability and loadlines, safety advice and regulations for boatmasters, designers or shipbuilders dealing with vessel stability.
Fee list for registration costs
Steps and requirements on how to register a fishing vessel
Guide for owners and operators of merchant ships and bareboat charters over 100GT.
Advice about regulations applying to pleasure (sport or recreational) craft.
Stability information guidance and standard example for booklet.
The safety requirements for systems and equipment that move and control vessels, and make vessels usable for crew, passengers and cargo.
A quick-reference guide to UK regulations and procedures.
Recommendation for the fitting of hull stress monitoring systems on bulk carriers of 20,000 dwt and above.
Code of practice for the construction, machinery, equipment, survey and manning of police boats.
Alert to the possible problems caused by excessive harmonic distortion of electrical systems onboard vessels.
This page outlines the requirements and construction standards for fishing vessels
Maintenance intervals of portable fire extinguishers.
Online proforma registration and guidance for owners, operators and bareboat charterers registering merchant vessels under the UK flag.
Leaflet explaining the differences between alerting technology and location technology.
This MGN provides best practice marine guidance to facilitate safe and environmentally friendly battery solutions for vessels utilising lithium-ion batteries.
Guidance to the crew for the safe use of fixed CO2 gas fire extinguishing systems.
Codes of Practice detail the regular maintenance requirements of safety equipment and systems to a high standard, as is required to maintain fishing certificates.
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