Mandatory Publications required under SOLAS Chapter V. Flashcards
Paper Charts
What is it used for?
Features / Contents
How would you check it is up to date?
How would you update it?
What is it used for?
Official paper charts cover commercial shipping routes, ports and harbours helping bridge crews navigate safely in accordance with SOLAS regulations.
Features / Contents
A range of scales to provide appropriate levels of detail. Large scale for main ports and harbours; medium scale for coastal navigation and small scale for offshore navigation.
How would you check it is up to date?
Check the bottom left hand corner and compare with Notices to Mariners. Cumulative list is published every 6 months and contains list of chart corrections for previous 2 years.
How would you update it?
Weekly updates available through weekly notices to mariners. Chasrts also include Admiralty QR codes which allow quick acces to the Notices to Mariners that affect the specific chart or publication.
ENC / RNC Charts
What is it used for?
Describe its features / contents
How would you know they were up to date?
How would you update them?
What is it used for?
Electronic navigational charts / raster navigational charts
Describe its features / contents?
ENC- charted information displayed in layered form allowing the navigator to interact with the information. This is achieved through user defined layouts and the setting of alarms.
RNC- electronic version of a paper chart. Limited use of user interactivity and setting of alarms.
How would you know they were up to date?
Check latest date of corrections installed in ECDIS.
How would you update them?
Weekly through CD/Rom or with internet connection
International Code of Signals
What is it used for?
Describe its features / contents
What is it used for?
Allows for the communication between ships, aircraft and authorities.
Describe the features / contents?
Chapter I Explanations and general remarks
Chapter II Definitions
Chapter III Methods of signalling
Chapter IV General instructions
Chapter V Flag signalling
Chapter VI Flashing light signalling
Chapter VII Sound signalling
Chapter VIII Radiotelephony
Chapter IX Morse signalling by hand-flags or arms
Chapter X Morse symbols – phonetic tables – procedure signals
Chapter XI Single-letter signals
Chapter XII Single-letter signals with complements
Chapter XIII Single-letter signals between ice-breaker and assisted vessels
Chapter XIV Identification of medical transports in armed conflict
I Distress – emergency
II Casualties – damages
III Aids to navigation – navigation – hydrography
IV Manoeuvres
V Miscellaneous
VI Meteorology – weather
VII Routeing of ships
VIII Communications
IX International Health Regulations
I Request for medical assistance
II Medical advice
Appendix 1 – Distress signals
Appendix 2 – Tables of signalling flags
Appendix 3 – Table of life-saving signals
Appendix 4 – Radiotelephone procedures
How would you know it is up to date?
Check latest edition on IMO website.
Mariner Handbook (NP100)
What is it used for?
Features / Contents
How would you know it is up to date?
How would you update it?
What is it used for?
Guidance to help mariners improve their understanding of maritime navigation, sea and ice conditions, meteorology and regulations
Describe its features / contents? Assistance in navigational training and active bridge procedures. Charts and their uses navigational information maritime environment restrictions to navigation maritime pollution
How would you know it is up to date?
Admiralty QR codes allow quick access to a list of all Notices to Mariners that affect that publication.
How would you update it?
Updates through Admiralty Notices to Mariners
MSN, MGN and MIN
MSN – technical detail of regulations. This is mandatory information.
MGN – guidance and best practice for ships crews
MIN – Information valid for a short period of time. Relevant to a small group of people.
Notices to Mariners
What is it used for?
Features / Contents
What is it used for?
Published weekly they provide bridge crews with the latest safety-critical navigational information
Describe its features / contents?
8 sections:
I – Explanatory notes
II – Updates to Standard Nautical Charts
III – NAVAREA I warnings
IV – Update to Sailing Directions
V – Update to Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals
VI- Update to List of Radio Signals
VII – Updates to Miscellaneous Admiralty Nautical Publications
VIII – Updates to Admiralty Digital Services
Annual Summary NTM
What is it used for? Features / Contents How would you check it is up to date? How would you update it? When are they published?
What is it used for?
This is a supplement to the Weekly Notices to Mariners
What are its contents / features?
This contains the 26 Annual Statutory Notices to Mariners. A summary of the Temporary and Preliminary Notices to Mariners still in force and the Cumulative Summary of Amendments to Admiralty Sailing Directions.
When are they published?
Paper copy published in January each year, Can be accessed online.
List of Radio Signals
What is its purpose?
What are its contents / features?
How are they updated?
What is its purpose?
Information on all aspects of Maritime Radio Communications to help bridge crews manage communications and comply with reporting requirements
What are its contents / features? 6 Volumes 1 - Maritime Radio Stations 2 - Radio Aids to Navigation, DGPS EPFS 3 - Maritime Safety Information Services 4 - Meteorological Observation Stations 5 - GMDSS 6 - Pilot Services, VTS, Port Operations How are they updated? Updates through Admiralty Notices to Mariners
List of Lights Signals
What is it used for?
What are its contents / features?
How would you correct them?
What is it used for?
Provides descriptions of characteristics of light and fog signals to help bridge crews with identification.
Contains tables to assist in the calculation of geographical and luminous ranges of lights.
What are its contents / features?
Details for all lights including, international number, location, geographical position, characteristics, intensity, elevation in metres and range in sea miles. If the name of the light is in bold it has a range over 15 miles.
How would you correct them?
Updates through Admiralty Notices to Mariners
Sailing Directions
What are they for?
Describe their features / contents?
How would you know you were using the latest edition?
How would you correct them?
What are they for?
Essential information to support port entry and coastal navigation.
Describe their features / contents?
Info on navigational hazards, buoyage, pilotage, regulations, port facilities, seasonal currents, ice and climatic conditions. Contains high quality diagrams and photography to help bridge crews understand critical information.
How would you know you were using the latest edition?
Inside cover. Current edition info on website & Admiralty Notices to Mariners
How would you correct them?
Updates through Admiralty Notices to Mariners
Nautical Almanac
What is it for?
What are its contents / features?
What is it for?
Contains astronomical information to support bridge crews in routine and emergency celestial navigation including calculation of daylight hours and mandatory gyro checks
What are its contents / features?
Tables of the Sun, Moon, navigational planets and stars to determine positions with a sextant.
Times of sunrise, sunset, twilights, moonrise and moonset, phases of the Moon and eclipses of the sun
Information on standard times around the world.
Navigational Tables
What are they for?
What are they for?
All mathematical tables required for coastal and deep sea navigation
Tide Tables
What are they for?
Describe the contents/features?
How are they corrected?
What are they for?
Allows for the calculation of time and height of tides to support the planning of departure and arrival times
Describe the contents/features?
Daily high and low-water times and heights for standard ports, time and height differences for secondary ports
Methods of prediction and information about the effects of meteorological conditions on tides.
How are they corrected?
Weekly Notices to Mariners.
Admiralty QR codes allow quick access to a list of all Notices to Mariners that affect that publication.
Tide Stream Atlases
What is their purpose?
What are their contents / features?
What is their purpose?
Enables accurate calculation of tidal stream rates for a particular port when planning a voyage
What are their contents / features?
Pictorial representations of tidal stream directions for each hour before and after the reference port.
Information on the direction and rate of tidal streams.
Mean Neap and Spring tidal rates in tenths of a knot
Operating and Maintenance Instructions
What is the purpose of carrying these on the bridge of the ship?
What is the purpose of carrying these on the bridge of the ship?
Ship specific, technical information from the manufacturer. Methods of good practice and trouble shooting.
