ADMIRALTY Sailing Directions (Pilots) provide essential information to support port entry and

coastal navigation for all classes of ships at sea. Split across 76 volumes, coverage includes the world’s
main commercial shipping routes and ports.

Each volume of Sailing Directions offers:

 Information on navigational hazards, buoyage, pilotage, regulations, general notes on countries,

port facilities, seasonal currents, ice and climatic conditions. This information, when used
alongside official ADMIRALTY charts, can help to increase situational awareness on the bridge.

 High quality diagrams and photography to help bridge-crews understand critical information
during the passage planning stage.

 Worldwide official coverage to support safe and compliant navigation within main commercial
shipping routes and ports. This coverage is split across 76 volumes for purchase flexibility.

ADMIRALTY List of Lights and Fog Signals provides coverage of over 85,000 light structures including
lighthouses, lightships, lit floating marks, fog signals and other lights of navigational significance.

Each volume of List of Lights and Fog Signals offers:

 Descriptions of the characteristics of lights and fog signals, together with the equivalent foreign
language light descriptions, to help bridge crews with identification

 Tables to assist in the calculation of geographical and luminous ranges of lights

 Details for all lights listed including the international number, location and/or name,
geographical position, characteristics and intensity, elevation in meters, range in sea miles and
description of structure

 Published in 14 regional volumes (A-P) for simplicity and ease of handling

ADMIRALTY List of Radio Signals provides information on all aspects of Maritime Radio
Communications, helping bridge crews to manage communications and comply with all reporting
regulations throughout a voyage.

For clarity and convenience, this publication is split across six volumes; with contents ranging from
Maritime Radio Station listings to Maritime Safety Information Services worldwide. You can find full
details on the contents of each volume and its corresponding parts below.

Volume 1 (NP281) - Maritime Radio Stations (Parts 1 & 2)

Split across two publications, Volume 1 includes radio details for:

 Global Maritime Communications

  Satellite Communication Services
 Coastguard Communications
 Maritime TeleMedical Assistance Service (TMAS)
 Radio Quarantine and Pollution reports
 Anti-Piracy Contact Table

Volume 2 (NP282) - Radio Aids to Navigation, Differential GPS (DGPS), Legal Time, Radio Time Signals
and Electronic Position Fixing System (Parts 1 & 2)

Split across two publications, Volume 2 includes radio details for:

 Listing of VHF Radio Direction-Finding Stations

 Radar Beacons (Racons and Ramarks)
 Known operational Automatic Identification System (AIS)
 Aids to Navigation (AtoN)
 Radio beacons transmitting DGPS corrections
 International Standard and Daylight Saving Times and Dates
 International Radio Time Signal Broadcast details

Volume 3 (NP283) - Maritime Safety Information Services (Parts 1 & 2)

Split across two publications, Volume 3 includes radio details for:

 Maritime Weather Services

 Safety Information broadcasts
 Worldwide NAVTEX and SafetyNET information
 Submarine and Gunnery Warning details (Subfacts and Gunfacts)
 Radio-Facsimile Stations, frequencies and weather map areas

Volume 4 (NP284) - Meteorological Observation Stations

This volume includes:

 All Met Observation Stations listed worldwide

Volume 5 (NP285) - Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)

This volume includes:

 Worldwide communication requirements for distress, search and rescue

 Extracts from SOLAS and ITU Regulations
 Distress and SAR (incorporating MRCC and MRSC contacts)
 Worldwide NAVTEX and Maritime Safety Information

Volume 6 (NP286) - Pilot Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations (Parts 1 - 8)

Split across eight publications, Volume 6 includes radio details for

  Detailed Pilot information, contact details and procedures
 Vessel Traffic Service information, contact details and procedures
 National and International Ship Reporting Systems
 Port information, contact details and procedures

ADMIRALTY Tide Tables contain easy-to-use height, timing and tidal stream information to support
the planning of departure and arrival times. Coverage includes 500 standard and 5,700 secondary ports
in the UK and Ireland, Europe, the Indian Ocean, South China Sea and Pacific Ocean.

Each volume of Tide Tables includes:

 Daily high and low-water times and heights for standard ports, time and height differences for
secondary ports and harmonic constants for all ports where they are known

 Methods of prediction and information about the effects of meteorological conditions on tides

 Additional information on exceptional tidal factors provided for each area

The Mariner’s Handbook (NP100) contains clear guidance to help mariners improve their
understanding of maritime navigation, sea and ice conditions, meteorology and regulations. A highly
valued publication, NP100 is used as a ‘core’ text by many leading maritime training academies and
maritime related organizations.

The Mariner’s Handbook includes:

 Guidance to assist mariners in navigational training and active bridge procedures. Information
includes charts and their use, the communication of navigational information, the maritime
environment, restrictions to navigation and maritime pollution and conservation.

 Simple tabular layouts to help users quickly locate essential information, with images to aid the
understanding of complex subjects

Ocean Passages for the World (NP136) supports the planning of deep-sea voyages on most major
routes, with details of weather, currents, ice hazards and distances between major ports.

Ocean Passages for the World includes:

 Individual chapters covering each of the world’s oceans, with details of weather, climate, winds,
currents, swell, seasonal factors and ice hazards

 Coverage of the world's busiest and emerging trade routes to help bridge crew and shore side
staff with route planning and the calculation of arrival times

 Numerous route diagrams and tabulated route data to help users find information quickly, as
well as chartlets clearly demonstrating the effects of climate, wave heights and load line zones
ADMIRALTY Tidal Stream Atlases
Tidal Stream Atlases include detailed tidal stream direction and strength information for key locations in
North West Europe enabling accurate calculation of tidal stream rates for a particular port when
planning a voyage.

Each volume of Tidal Stream Atlases includes:

 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

CHART CATALOGUE: NP - 131

PUBLISHED BY THE HYDROGRAPHER OF THE NAVY EVERY YEAR. IT CONSISTS OF 37 SECTIONS, WHICH
GIVES THE DATE OF PUBLICATION, DATE OF CURRENT EDITION, COVERAGE AREA OF A PUBLICATION,
DIAGRAMMATIC INDEX OF COVERAGE AND TITLES OF VARIOUS CHARTS AND PUBLICATIONS.

IT ALSO GIVES THE DETAILS OF THE AGENT FROM WHOM TO PROCURE THEM WITH THE PRICE OF
EACH ITEM.

SOME OF THE IMPORTANT CONTENTS ARE LISTED BELOW:

1) GENERAL INFORMATION.

2) LIST OF ADMIRALITY CHARTS AND AGENTS.

3) NUMERICAL LIST OF CHARTS AND PUBLICATIONS.

4) LIMITS OF CHART INDEX.

5) LIMITS OF SMALL SCALE CHARTS.

6) LIST OF CHAIN DETAILS OF DECCA - LORAN CHARTS.

7) WALL AND OUTLINE CHARTS.

8) ROUTEING CHARTS.

9) FISHERIES CHARTS.

10) LIST OF ADMIRALITY SAILING DIRECTIONS.

ADMIRALITY DISTANCE TABLES: NP - 350
PUBLISHED IN THREE VOLUMES:

VOLUME 1: NP - 350(1) Atlantic Ocean AND CONNECTED SEAS.

VOLUME 2: NP - 350(2) Indian Ocean AND CONNECTED SEAS.

VOLUME 3: NP - 350(3) Pacific Ocean AND CONNECTED SEAS.

 THESE DISTANCES ARE GIVEN IN NAUTICAL MILES AND ARE THE SHORTEST NAVIGABLE
DISTANCE WITHOUT CONCIDERING THE ADVANTAGE OF CURRENT AND WEATHER.
 TRANS OCEANIN DISTANCES MAY BE FOUND BY CONCIDERING A LINK PORT OR POSITION
COMMON TO BOTH THESE OCEANS.

Routeing Charts
Essential for use in passage planning for ocean voyages, Routeing Charts include routes and distances
between major ports, ocean currents, ice limits, load lines and wind roses. They also contain expected
meteorological and oceanographic conditions for each month of the year.


Individual chart scales of 1:5,000,000, 1:10,000,000 and 1:20,000,000 to assist bridge crews in
high-level route planning
 Information including wind roses showing wind speed and direction, the frequency and intensity
of storms and low pressure, ocean currents, sea and air temperatures, air pressure and ice limits
based on data averages
 Each charted area contains 12 separate charts for each calendar month, covering meteorological
and oceanographic conditions that change throughout the year

Symbols and Abbreviations Used on Admiralty Charts, Chart 5011 (INT 1) - Edition 5
This convenient A4 book details Admiralty and INT paper chart symbols in full colour with information
on hydrography, topography, navigational aids and services, abbreviations of principal terms shown on
English and foreign charts and general information on the content of Admiralty paper charts.
Routeing Guide Charts
Essential routeing information to help bridge crews safely navigate through some of the world’s busiest
and most complex shipping routes.

Each Mariners' Routeing Guide includes:

 Verified information highlighting dangers or warnings to navigation, limited depths and dense
traffic areas. This additional information, when used alongside official navigational charts, can
help to increase situational awareness and reduce the risk of damage caused by collisions and
groundings.
 Clear guidance on traffic separation schemes and routeing measures that have been adopted by
the IMO and national authorities.