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 2007 (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