April 2010 (301)

• Editorial
• Feature: ECDIS Part 2
• APL Sydney (page 6)
• Book Review: ECDIS & POSITIONING: Dr Andy Norris (page 7)
• Pensions News (page
• Tyne Cruising Pilot cutters (page 9)
• Ship Hydrodynamics (page 10)
• A Pilot Praised (page 11)
• Obituaries (page 12)

January 2010 (300)

• Editorial
• Feature: ECDIS Part 1
• Pensions News (Page 7)
• THPV Bembridge (Pages 8&9)
• Criminalisation of pilots (Page 10)
• PEC & Tripping pilots (Page 11)
• UKMPA meet with DfT (Page 11)
• Obituaries (Page 12)
• Book Review : Navigators of Teisa (Page 13)

October 2009 (299)

• Editorial
• Feature: The Bristol Channel Sailing Pilot “Skiffs”
• Pensions news (P6)
• Technical & Training (P7)
• Pilotage skills win Thames barge match (P8)
• SeaWork 2009 (P9)
• Letter: Pilot training (P10)
• Letter: Liverpool pilot retirements (P10)
• Pilotage Standards: “Unrealistic & Unworkable”!! (P11)
• Pilots’ golfing society (P11)
• Obituaries (P12)
• Fort Camosun & Submarine I-25 (P13)

July 2009 (298)

• Editorial
• Feature: Cosco Busan and criminalisation of pilots
• Pensions news
• Pilot ladders & Rocknes update
• 45th EMPA football tournament
• Liverpool retirements
• 121st UKMPA conference report
• Authorisation limits
• Pilot standards
• Obituary: John Frankish

April 2009 (297)

• Editorial
• Feature: Fog & Pilotage
• Pensions News (page 7)
• Pilot Cutter Protector (8)
• Cosco Busan: Pilot pleads guilty (10)
• Obituaries (11)
• Book Reviews (12)

January 2009 (296)

• Editorial
• Feature: MarNIS & POADSS
• Pension News (5)
• T&TC Report (6)
• Dead Slow Ahead! (7)
• Ship to Ship transfer 1970′s (8)
• Piloting Britain’s largest gas import (9)
• Merchant Navy Medals (10)
• Obituaries (11)
• Liverpool plots MRM course (12)
• Book Review: Square Rigger Days (14)

October 2008 (295)

Contents:

• Editorial
• Feature: The Pivot Point?
• 19th IMPA congress
• IMPA Report (PIANC Meeting)
• Technical & Training report
• Pensions News
• Pilots’ golfing Society
• Belfast: Carbon Neutral
• PEC abuse
• Tees retirement: Paul Dunn

July 2008 (294)

Contents:

• Editorial
• 119th UKMPA conference
• The Humber Case
• Pilots Under Siege?
• Maritime Memories Cruise
• Chairman’s Report
• Pension News
• The Cosco Busan
• Book Review
• EMPA Football
• Obituaries
• Letter
• Insurances
• The Marine Bill

April 2008 (293)

Contents

• Squat 2 Mud Navigation & Negative Under Keel Clearance
• Squat update: What Squat?
• Retirements: John Marshal & Alan Purvis. End of an era on the Tyne
• To be a pilot: Career or Destiny. The story of a pilot family by David Raddings (ex HPL)
• Civil & Criminal Liabilities in Pilotage
• The Bridge Teram: Master /Pilot relationship
• Obituaries : Daniel McMillan, Anthony Thurgood
• Letter: Squat Feedback

January 2008 (292)

Contents

• Squat Part 1
• Mysteries of Pilotage by Barrie Youde
• Is This Bridge Fit For Purpose?
• Pilot Gigs update
• Belfast Pilots. Letter ref self employment
• Obituary: Eric Wray
• Meester Pilot, Where are you again? Another grounding (Maersk Diadema)  off a port approach
• Retired Liverpool pilot, Dave Devey reveives the MN medal
• Dyneema: a new mooring rope

October 2007 ( 291)

Contents

• The Pilot gigs of Cornwall & The Scilly Isles
• Retirement: Ralph Bird, gig builder
• New pilot cutter design. The french “ORC”
• Obituary: Colin Vine
• Status of a Pilot
• Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (PIANC)

July 2007 (290)

Contents

• Crimson Mars Grounding
• GMDSS revalidation for UK pilots
• Criminalisation of Mariners (including pilots)
• Employment v Self employment of UK Pilots
• Sunk VTS suspended!
• Sailing on Logos 2 :  Chris Hughes (Europilots)
• Future of UKMPA? The Responses
• Obituaries: Bruce Fulton, gerald smith,
• HMS Worcester
• Brief History of HQS Wellington (IMPA HQ)

April 2007 (289)

Contents

• Maritime Lady, Sunny Blossom, Arctic Ocean: Report into Collision off Brunsbuttel
• New Technology Radar: Kelvin Hughes’ “Sharpeye”.
• UKMPA : The Future? by Avald Wymark (Bristol)
• Obituaries: Alec Rollinson, John simpson, Len Sidgwick, Geoffrey Harrison, John Temple
• Retired Pilots meet up in Tampa, David Ingham (ex Trinity House Harwich), Robert Holden (ex Panama Canal), Donald Mercereau (ex Sandy Hook / New York)

January 2008 (288)

cONTENTS

• 119th UKMPA conference
• Retirement: Paul Haysom, Section committee member & Great Yarmouth pilot
• Piloting the Emma Maersk. Harwich haven pilot Andy Adams
• Belfast Self Employment
• Retirement: Dave Devey, Section committee member & Liverpool pilot
• Pilots wanted in Paris!

October 2006 (287)

Contents

• World Maritime Day 2006. pilots set the initiative
• E-navigation
• Y-tronic bluetooth AIS on test
• Maritime Navigation and Information Services (MarNIS)
• Book Review: Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick
• MV Karen Danielson : Collision with the Great Belt Bridge report
• Obituaries: John Oates, Michael Warren, Joseph Webber, Michael Field,

July 2006 (286)

Contents

• Automatic Mooring Systems
• Meester Pilot Where Are You? The grounding of the APL Panama
• Obituary Feature: Alfred Venn, The Last of the Bristol Channel Sailing Pilots
• Obituaries: Jeffrey Spall, Archie MacDonald,

April 2006 (285)

Contents

• AIS Update
• MV Stolt Aspiration / Tug Thorngarth Collision findings
• Mooring Bitts for Towage
• Obituary: John (Iain) Cambell Peterson
• Book Review: Bow Tug Operations with ASD Tugs by Henk Hensen

January 2006 (284)

Contents

• 118th Conference 2005
• Obituaries: Jim Callaghan (2), R F Youde, John (Mike) Leney,
• DVD Review: the BGreat Port of Bristol by Snowbow productions
• Nelson Funeral Reinactment

October 2005 (283)

Contents

• MV Stolt Tern grounding
• Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Rally 2005
• Gloucester pilot and cartoonist, George Woolard, retires
• Obituaries: Peter Byers, Mike Young, James Anderson
• Compulsory pilotage in the PSSA of Torres Straits
• Portable Pilotage Units (PPU)
• Book Review: Four Times a Scapegoat by Douglas Harvey
• Pilot Error?

July 2005 (282)

Contents

• Watchkeeper fatigue
• Pilotage Laws 1888: Commander Cawley
• MV Rocknes update
• Book Review: Cairn Line of Steamships 1876 – 2005 by Gilbert T Wallace
• Obituaries: Hein Mehrkens, Donald MacArthur, Ray Hooker, Clifford Lea, John Yarrow, Jim Callaghan,

April 2005 (281)

Contents:

• Martin Lee: The Last “Grand Mat” of the Amicale Internationale des Captianes au Long-Cours Cap Horniers (AICH)
• MV Karen Danielsen: VTS failure?
• AICH UK branch history: Martin Lee
• MV Fortius: Accident report
• Book Review: Mariner’s Launch by Ray Solley
• Obituary: James (Jim) Callaghan,

January 2005 (280)

Contents

• 117th UKMPA conference
• 11 days adrift in an open lifeboat: True story by Neil MacNeil
• EU Education Certification Training & Standards (ECTS) for Maritime Pilots project
• Obituaries: Gianfranco Gasperini, Joseph Duhig, Neil MacNeil

October 2004 (279)

Contents

• Pilotage History: Part 2
• MV Rockness Capsize
• IMO Resolution A960
• Master / Pilot Relationship: MV Astor
• Tide program review: Neptune Tide
• Liverpool Pilotage: WW2 update
• Obituaries: Donald Twells, John Halton,

July 2004 (278)

Contents

• Pilotage History Part 1
• TotalTide tidal program review
• London Pilots Pilot “Concorde”
• Liverpool Pilotage during World War 2
• Obituaries: Gerard Couch, Leslie Finch, Peter Holbrook,
• Liverpool Pilot Cutter: Charles Livingston erratum & update

April 2004 (277)

Contents

• Integrated Bridge Systems
• AIS & VTS
• Immersion & Hypothermia
• Book Review: Marine Pilot by John Foot
• Loss of the Liverpool Pilot Cutter : Charles Livingston
• Obituaries: Eric Jones, John Burgess MBE, Peter Johnson, Michael Belsey, Frederick Tapping

January 2004 (276)

Contents:

• 116th Conference 2003: Liverpool
• A visit to Poland
• PLA Bridge simulator
• AIS Update
• Liverpool veterans honoured & Battle of the Atalntic
• Obituaries: Eric Jones & John Stuart Burgess

October 2003 (275)

Contents:

• Piloting the FPSO “Bonga” on the Tyne
• Nature of Pilotage: Michael Grey, Lloyd’s List
• Incident reports: Jody Millennium & Tai Ping
• High Lift Rudder: Becker or Lumley?
• Obituaries: D. Mackenzie, T A Hood
• Video Review: Snowbow’s “Great Liners” Vol 21: Ships to New Zealand