USEFUL PUBLICATIONS
NP 172 Admiralty Sailing Directions
Supplied automatically with chart outfit
Updated by corrections in Weekly NM (Section IV)
Local regulations, buoyage, port/trade information, environment and climate
Port facilities including pilot requirements and Dockyard Port Orders
Seasonal meteorology
Territorial waters, mine dangerous areas
NP 7484 Admiralty List of Light and Fog Signals
Tables of lights, fog signals, ranges and definitions
Number, position, name, latitude and longitude, characteristics, nominal range
Each volume covers a different geographical area
More uptodate than SDs or charts for light characteristics
Updated by corrections in Weekly NM (Section V)
NP 100 Mariners’ Handbook
Information of general interest to mariners
Guidance on charts and corrections
Advice on Rules for Prevention of Colllisions at Sea
Remarks on use of navaids
Buoyage
Hazards
National limits
Meteorology, oceanography and working in ice
Glossary of terms
NP 111 Catalogue of Classified Charts and Publications
NP 131 Catalogue of Admiralty Charts and Publications
[A3 sized binder]
Diagrams of chart coverage in geographical sequence
Numerical indexes of charts and publications
List of Admiralty Chart Agents
Issued annually
NP 133B Chart Correction Log and Folio Index
Folio check list (which charts in which folio, which folios held)
Folio correction sheets (forms H55 and H55A)
Part II is an index to all Admiralty charts showing which folio they are in
NP 136 Ocean Passages of the World
Routes and distances between principal ports
Currents, weather, ice, wind on major routes
Noncoastal information
NP 139 Echo Sounding Correction Tables
Details of corrections for speed of sound in various regions
NP 164 Dover: Times of High Water
Pamphlet giving HW for Dover
NP 167 Tidal Streams in the Approaches to HM Naval Bases
Hourly TS diagrams
Notes on local restrictions and tidal effects
NP 201204 Admiralty Tide Tables
Standard/2ary port HW/LW information
Standard data (e.g. MHWS, LAT etc.)
Each volume covers a different geographical area
1: UK and Ireland including Channel Ports
2: Europe and the Atlantic Ocean including Channel Ports
3: Indian Ocean and South China Sea
4: Pacific Ocean
NP 209266,337, 628636 Admiralty TS Atlases
Hourly TS data based on convenient local standard port
Directions plotted and speeds shown in 1/10s of knot
NP 234A/B Cumulative List of Admiralty NMs
Issued every six months
Details of all corrections to charts over 2 years/since last edition
Lists all hydrographic publications in force and their edition
Index of NMs to weekly edition of publication
NP 281 Admiralty List of Radio Signals Volume 1 Parts 1&2 Coast Radio Stations
Description of global marine communications services
Details of cost radio stations by country
Name (red = MRCC)
Contact details
Nature of transmissions
Call signs
Availability of medical advice by radio; countries operating and coast radio
stations used
Radio quarantine reports required and format
Procedures for locust reports by radio
Requirements for pollution reports
Ship reporting systems for SAR coordination
Piracy and armed robbery reports
Alien smuggling reporting procedures
General radio regulations
International telephone/telex codes
Numerical list of shorebased MMSI numbers
Phonetic alphabet and figure code
NP 282 ALRS Volume 2 Radio Aids to Navigation
Radio DirectionFinding stations and their transmission details by country and
position
Radar beacons by country
Description of Satellite Navigation Systems
Standard/Legal Times by country including maps of time zones
List of radio time signals
Details of LORANC
NP 283 ALRS Volume 3 Maritime Safety and Information Services
Radio weather services, ice reports and navigational warnings (inc. fax)
Weather routeing services
Details of NAVTEX broadcasts
Meteorological and oceanographic codes
NP 284 ALRS Volume 4 Meteorological Observation Stations
NP 285 ALRS Volume 5 Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
Description of GMDSS, operational procedures and associated communications
systems
SOLAS regulations
Description of Safety NET
NAVTEX
SAR procedures
NP 286 ALRS Volume 6 Port Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations
Issued annually
Radio details and procedures for vessels needing pilots and/or entering harbours
NP 314 Nautical Almanac
Information for astronomical navigation at sea
NP 320 Nories Tables
Logarithms
Ports of the world latitude and longitude
Bearing amplitudes
NP323 Star Identifier
Underlay and overlays to display the azimuth and altitude of heavenly bodies at a
given position and time
NP 350 Admiralty Distance Tables
Shortest navigable distance in international nautical miles between focal points
and chief points
Assumes ships draw 10m
Each volume covers a different ocean
NP 407 Meteorology for Mariners
NP 441 Guide to Completing Bridge Weather Log
NP 727 Wallet containing Ships’ Boats’ Charts
Survival kit of shipwrecks
Show winds, currents, ice etc.
Contains simple plotting tools
Issued every 10 years
NP 735 IALA Buoyage System
Chart 5011 Chart Symbols and Abbreviations
Annual Summary of Admiralty NMs
First few NMs of new year
All Ts and Ps in force
Reprint of corrections affecting SDs
BR 134 Collisions and Groundings
‘Hits and Misses’
Case histories and lessons learnt
BR 453 Seaman’s Guide to IRPCS
Programmed learning of RoR with rules as green appendix
BR 454 Guide to Collision Avoidance Rules
‘Cockcroft’
Legal background and interpretation
Chart Folios
1.100 Standard navigation charts
300 Special diagrams, plotting sheets and routeing charts
Routeing charts
Routes and distances between ports
Statistical ocean currents, wind data, ice limits, dew points, sea temperatures,
pressures and incidence of fog, gales and storms
700 Fleet charts; standard charts overlaid with additional information e.g. fishery limits,
exercise areas etc.
Forms
S232 Report of Collision or Grounding
S322 Ship’s Log
S376 Manoeuvring Forms
S548A Navigating Officer’s Notebook
S553 Order Book
S1176 Fishing Vessel Log
S1301 Report on Damage to Fishing Gear
S2677 Navigational Data Book
S3034 Navigational Record Book