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121st UKMPA Conference Report
121ST UKMPA CONFERENCE REPORT
This year the conference was a one day event held on board the HQS Wellington and was attended by 39 pilots from 15 districts. Read the rest of this entry »
PILOTING VESSELS OVER AN AUTHORISATION LIMIT
PILOTING VESSELS OVER AN AUTHORISATION LIMIT.
Following the HA’s taking over responsibility for authorising pilots following the 1987 Pilotage Act, many districts retained the authorisation structure and wording from the Trinity House authorisations. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilotage Standards & The Government
PILOTAGE STANDARDS & THE GOVERNMENT
Pilots who follow the conference will be aware that since the beginning of the century there has been a set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for pilotage training gathering dust on the shelves of a chameleon style port run body that has metamorphasised through various incarnations into Port Skills and Safety (PSS). Read the rest of this entry »
COSCO BUSAN: Pilot pleads guilty to criminal charges!
Although it occurred in the USA, the Cosco Busan allision with the Bay Bridge in San Francisco will inevitably have relevance to pilotage over here. There is also relevance to this quarter’s feature on piloting in fog. Read the rest of this entry »
Liverpool pilots accredited to run Maritime Resource Management (MRM) courses
In September 2008 Liverpool Pilots, through The Swedish Club, put two Pilots through the Maritime Resource Management training for Work Shop Leaders. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilots Awarded The Merchant Navy Medal
The MN Medal recipients with Admiral Lord West of Spithead. All photos: John Neligan
Further to last year’s Merchant Navy medal awards which saw retired Liverpool pilot Dave Devey receive the medal for “services to UK and European pilotage” (see pilot 292) December 4th last year saw two UKMPA serving pilots receive the award from Admiral Lord West of Spithead at St Michael Paternoster Royal Church, City of London. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting Britain’s Largest Gas Import
Britain’s largest gas import delivered to the Isle of Grain.
By Medway pilot John Gurton
John Gurton
The Al Khuwair arrived on the 17th November for commissioning of the phase 2 gas tanks at Isle of Grain with a delivery of 215,000m3 of LNG. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting ship to ship transfers 1970’s
The Dutch tanker Nacia approaches a Bergeson VLCC / OBO. (pilot J. Morrison) These vessels were the largest two vessels to undertake the transfer operation. Photo E. Ramsay. The Isle of Arran is visible to starboard.
As many of you are probably aware there have been several proposals tabled during the last few years to permit ship to ship oil transfers at several locations around the UK coast especially for the export of oil cargoes from Russia where the depth of the Baltic precludes the use of large tankers. Read the rest of this entry »
Dead Slow Ahead!!
Further to reports of high Dead Slow Ahead speeds here is one daunting copy of a pilot cord received from IMPA.
The pilot cutter “Protector”
Wendy Cummin has kindly granted permission for her research into the loss of the pilot cutter “Protector” to be placed on this website. The photographs have been supplied by retired Harwich pilot, Andy Adams.
The pilot cutter “Protector”
Although not as common as in WW2, there were many civilian deaths in WW1. Read the rest of this entry »
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