The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 1999

Anchorage in Plymouth Sound

22.  Unless otherwise notified by the Queen’s Harbour Master in a general or local Notice to Mariners no merchant or other private vessel shall anchor in—

(1) any area within the Dockyard Port shown as a prohibited anchorage on current Admiralty charts;

(2) any of the following areas shown on current Admiralty charts—

(a) the Western Channel and Eastern Channel entrances to Plymouth Sound, the approach therefrom to Smeaton Pass, and the water north of a straight line joining Fort Picklecombe and Mount Batten Tower, including Smeaton Pass, Drake Channel, and the Narrows together with Cobbler Channel and the Cattewater; but this prohibited area shall not include the Yacht Anchorage off the Hoe nor the Yacht Anchorage north of Drake’s Island nor the Yacht Anchorage in Barn Pool;

(b) the prohibited anchorage north and south of the track of the Torpoint Ferry;

(c) the controlled mooring area adjacent to Mount Batten northwards;

(d) the prohibited anchorage off Penlee Point;

(e) the prohibited anchorage off the Shag Stone.