The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999

Anchorage in Plymouth Sound

23.—(1) No vessels carrying explosives, save for those exempted by Regulation 33(2)(a) to (g) of the 1987 Regulations, shall anchor or moor within the Dockyard Port except in the following locations shown on current Admiralty charts:

(a) Number 2 and 22 anchorages in Plymouth Sound;

(b) “C”, “D” and “E” mooring buoys in Plymouth Sound;

(c) “Capital Ship Trot 1”, “Capital Ship Trot 2”, “N9”, “N10” and “N11” moorings in the River Tamar;

(d) Ernesettle Jetty;

(e) North, South and West Tamar Trots;

(f) Such other locations as the Queen’s Harbour Master shall publish as a general or local Notice to Mariners.

(2) No merchant or other private vessel—

(a) carrying hazardous, dangerous or noxious substances (as defined in Regulation 8 of the 1987 Regulations), as cargo; or

(b) which is in ballast having previously carried any such substances as cargo, but which has not been gas-freed,

shall anchor or moor or secure alongside within the limits of the Dockyard Port save at a berth specified by the Queen’s Harbour Master.