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Admiralty Nautical Publications Guide

The document lists numerous Admiralty publications that provide useful information for mariners. These publications include Sailing Directions that provide local regulations, port facilities, and weather conditions; Lists of Lights that detail light characteristics; a Mariners' Handbook covering general navigation topics; Tide Tables; and Radio Signal publications describing global marine communication services. The publications aim to support safe and effective navigation.

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Admiralty Nautical Publications Guide

The document lists numerous Admiralty publications that provide useful information for mariners. These publications include Sailing Directions that provide local regulations, port facilities, and weather conditions; Lists of Lights that detail light characteristics; a Mariners' Handbook covering general navigation topics; Tide Tables; and Radio Signal publications describing global marine communication services. The publications aim to support safe and effective navigation.

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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

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