The Merchant Shipping (Registration of Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1988

Regulation 6

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

(1) Particulars of vessel

• Name of vessel

• Port or intended port of registry

• Year of build

• Place of build

• Construction material

• Name of builder

• Overall or approximate overall length

• Engine make and model

• Engine power (horsepower or kilowatts)

Particulars of applicant

• The name(s) and address(es) of the applicant(s)

PART II

• Details of previous registry

• Previous name of vessel

• Previous port letters and number (if any)

• Registered length

• If previously registered under Part I of the 1894 Act:

• the official number and port of registry thereunder.

• If previously registered under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988:

• the RSS number

• Particulars of any undischarged registered mortgage, including—

• name of mortgagee

• date of mortgage

• If previously foreign registered:

• country of registration

Regulation 13

SCHEDULE 2

PART I

Declaration of British Character of a Fishing Vessel

PART II

Declaration of Company Ownership

Regulation 18

SCHEDULE 3 PORTS OF REGISTRY

ENGLAND AND WALES

Table A

(1)	(2)	(1)	(2)
Ports of Registry	Port Letters	Ports of Registry	Port Letters
Aberystwyth	AB	London	LO
Barnstaple	BE	Lowestoft	LT
Barrow	BW	Maldon	MN
Beaumaris	BS	Manchester	MR
Berwick-on-Tweed	BK	Maryport	MT
Bideford	BD	Middlesbrough	MH
Blyth	BH	Milford Haven	M
Boston	BN	Newcastle	NE
Bridgwater	BR	Newhaven	NN
Bristol	BL	Newport, Gwent	NT
Brixham	BM	Padstow	PW
Caernarvon	CO	Penzance	PZ
Cardiff	CF	Plymouth	PH
Cardigan	CA	Poole	PE
Carlisle	CL	Portsmouth	P
Chester	CH	Port Talbot	PT
Colchester	CK	Preston	PN
Cowes	CS	Ramsgate	R
Dartmouth	DH	Rochester	RR
Dover	DR	Runcorn	RN
Exeter	E	Rye	RX
Falmouth	FH	St. Ives	SS
Faversham	F	Salcombe	SE
Fleetwood	FD	Scarborough	SH
Folkestone	FE	Scilly	SC
Fowey	FY	Shields, North	SN
Gloucester	GR	Shields, South	SSS
Goole	GE	Shoreham	SM
Great Yarmouth	YH	Southampton	SU
Grimsby	GY	Stockton	ST
Hartlepool	HL	Sunderland	SD
Harwich	HH	Swansea	SA
Hull	H	Teignmouth	TH
Ipswich	IH	Truro	TO
King’s Lynn	LN	Weymouth	WH
Lancaster	LR	Whitby	WY
Littlehampton	LI	Whitehaven	WA
Liverpool	LL	Wisbech	WI
Llanelly	LA	Workington	WO

SCOTLAND

Table B

(1)	(2)
Ports of Registry	Port Letters
Aberdeen	A
Alloa	AA
Arbroath	AH
Ardrossan	AD
Ayr	AR
Ballantrae	BA
Banff	BF
Borrowstoness	BO
Broadford	BRD
Buckie	BCK
Burntisland	BU
Campbeltown	CN
Castlebay, Barra	CY
Dumfries	DS
Dundee	DE
Fraserburgh	FR
Glasgow	GW
Grangemouth	GH
Granton	GN
Greenock	GK
Inverness	INS
Irvine	IE
Kirkcaldy	KY
Kirkwall	K
Leith	LH
Lerwick	LK
Methil	ML
Montrose	ME
Oban	OB
Peterhead	PD
Rothesay	RO
Stornoway	SY
Stranraer	SR
Tarbert, Loch Fyne	TT
Troon	TN
Ullapool	UL
Wick	WK
Wigtown	WN

NORTHERN IRELAND

Table C

(1)	(2)
Ports of Registry	Port Letters
Belfast	B
Coleraine	CE
Londonderry	LY
Newry	N

Regulation 19

SCHEDULE 4

Marking

(1) The name of the boat and the port of registry shall be painted in a colour contrasting with the colour of the ground on which they are painted, outside the stern of the boat in letters which shall be not less than 8 centimetres in height and 1.5 centimetres in breadth.

(2) The Port Letters and Number of the vessel shall be painted or displayed on both sides of the bow and on each quarter, as high above the water as is possible so as to be clearly visible from the sea and the air, in a colour contrasting with the colour of the ground on which they are painted.

(3) As from the 1st January 1990 the contrasting colours referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above shall be white and black.

(4) For vessels not over 17 metres in length, the height of the Port Letters and Number shall be at least 25 centimetres with a line thickness of at least 4 centimetres. For vessels over 17 metres in length the height of the letters and numbes shall be at least 45 centimetres, with a line thickness of at least 6 centimetres.

(5) The Port Letters and Number shall in addition be painted or displayed on the wheel house top or on some other prominent horizontal surface.

Carving

(6) The RSS number shall be carved into the main beam of the vessel or otherwise marked or fixed thereon in such a way it cannot readily be effaced.

Regulation 24

SCHEDULE 5 Particulars to be recorded on a Certificate of Registry

1.  Name of vessel

2.  Port letters and Numbers

3.  RSS number

4.  Registered length

5.  Overall length

6.  Breadth

7.  Depth

8.  Nett Tonnage

9.  Gross Tonnage (if any)

10.  Engine make and model

11.  Engine power

12.  Year of build

13.  Place of build

14.  Name and address or, in the case of a company, name and registered office, of owner(s)

15.  Type of registration (full or simple)

16.  Date Certificate issued Date of expiry of Certificate

Regulation 60

SCHEDULE 6 Provision of Part I of Merchant Shipping Act 1894 applied to fishing vessels

Section 6 modified to read as follows:

6.    Tonnage measurement

Every fishing vessel shall before registration under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 be surveyed and her tonnage ascertained in accordance with the tonnage regulations applicable to it under the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1988, and the person ascertaining the tonnage shall grant a certificate specifying the vessel’s tonnage and such other particulars descriptive of the identity of the vessel as may for the time being be required by the Secretary of State, and such certificate shall be delivered to the Secretary of State before registration.

Section 28(1) modified to read as follows:

Where the property in a fishing vessel registered under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 or a share thereunder is transmitted by any lawful means other than by bill of sale to a person who is not a qualified person or a qualified company within the meaning of section 14 of that Act, and as a result the vessel is no longer eligible to be registered under the said Part II then—

(a) if the port of registry of the vessel is in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, the High Court, or

(b) if the port of registry of the vessel is in Scotland, the Court of Session,

may, on application by or on behalf of that person, order a sale of the property so transmitted and direct that the proceeds of the sale, after deducting the expenses of the sale, shall be paid to that person or otherwise as the court may direct.

Section 28(2) to (4) unmodified.

Section 58, with the modification that after the words “ship or share in a ship” there shall be added the words: “(including any fishing vessel or share in a fishing vessel registered under Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988)”.