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Articles
Make Weather Data Work For You: Nigel Allen
Following on from Jonathon Pearce’s DUKC feature ,this account serves to highlight the importance of environmental factors in passage planning. (Ed)
Master / Pilot Exchange: Dr Katherine Devitt
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it!
As the elements (such as those detailed by Nigel Allen in this article) involved in a pilotage passage become more complex, the importance of an effective and on-going dialogue between Pilot and Master MPX) during the passage cannot be over-emphasised. Dr Devitt’s following research summary highlights the key factors. (JCB) Read the rest of this entry »
Sailing the Cambria for the 150th Thames Barge Match Race: JCB
On Saturday 13th July your editor joined a Port of London team who had chartered the sailing barge Cambria to participate in the 83rd Thames barge match race which was significant in that this year also marked the 150th anniversary of the original race. Read the rest of this entry »
Dynamic Under Keel Clearance (DUKC©) Jonathon Pearce (OMC International)
INTRODUCTION
Traditionally, ports have operated under fixed rules which govern the minimum under keel clearance (UKC) to permit safe transit along port approach channels. These rules may have been in existence for many years and in most cases they have an unblemished safety record but as they are based on the assumption that this clearance is sufficient regardless of the prevailing environmental conditions they can fail, often with disastrous consequences and evidence shows that up to five percent of transits are marginal, even unsafe. Read the rest of this entry »
Harwich Haven Pilots: Mark Murrison
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Harwich Haven Authority (HHA). Its predecessor, the Harwich Conservancy Board, was established in 1863 to conserve “the only natural harbour and safe refuge between the Humber and Thames estuaries”. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of Harwich Haven Pilots, when, following the Pilotage Act 187, pilots were transferred from Trinity House to HHA which provides pilotage services for ships using the ports of Harwich, Felixstowe, Ipswich and the small port of Mistley, as well as boarding and landing services for the Thames, Medway, Colne and Crouch. Read the rest of this entry »
Whither Towage: John Clandillon-Baker
The Paddle Tug
JMW Turner: The Fighting Temeraire being towed to Rotherhithe for scrapping in 1838.
Let’s injure a “tuggie” !! JCB
Like most things in the shipping world as ships have got bigger, officers, crews, pilots and tug skippers have had to adapt their skills to cope with new challenges to achieve successful ship handling outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting the “A” Class Nuclear Submarines Graham Wood (Barrow – in – Furness)
We are all used to being faced with new challenges in piloting as new trades and ship types arrive to test our versatility but very few of us are expected to pilot a totally new vessel constructed in secret with unknown handling characteristics in full view of the world’s media! Read the rest of this entry »
ECDIS Update Kevin Vallance
At the time of writing, the US navy is suffering the embarrassment of having pictures of it’s minesweeper USS Guardian hard aground on the Tubbataha coral reef in the Philippines beamed around the world by the media. Read the rest of this entry »
THE AUTONOMOUS SHIP
“Good morning control centre, this is the pilot speaking, I’ve just boarded so can you activate the coffee machine please?”
I can recall that back in 1969 when I was a pre-sea apprentice and America landed a man on the moon the concept of unmanned ships proceeding between ports was a topical subject in the maritime press. Read the rest of this entry »
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