Notices to Mariners, Port of Fleetwood

This website is not a warning channel

Urgent navigational warnings go out by VHF and to HM Coastguard for broadcast. They do not go out by website. If something is happening now, a danger has appeared, a mark has failed, a channel has silted or a vessel is in trouble, you will hear it on VHF or from the Coastguard. Listen out. Call the harbour office.

This page is the register, the archive and the reference copy. It is never the primary means of telling you about something happening now.

How notices work here

A notice to mariners is a written instruction or warning issued by the harbour authority to people navigating the harbour. Notices for the Port of Fleetwood are issued by FJ Ports (Fleetwood) Ltd. Notices for the Port of Silloth are issued by the other authority and are kept separate, because these are two separate harbour authorities 60 miles apart. A notice for one port does not apply to the other. See the Silloth notices.

Each notice carries a number, a year, a subject, the date it was issued and the name of the person who signed it. Where a notice replaces or cancels an earlier one, it says so, and the earlier one moves to the archive.

Notices issued by Associated British Ports before 18/09/2026 and still in force on that date remain in force. Where such a notice names Associated British Ports, an Associated British Ports job title or an Associated British Ports telephone number, read it as naming FJ Ports (Fleetwood) Ltd. Those notices are being reissued in the new authority's name. Until a notice is reissued, the version in this register is the version that applies, and it is displayed with a covering statement on the same page as the notice itself.

The consolidated Notice to Mariners No. 01 of 2026 lists what this authority holds and treats as in force at the transfer.

What the statuses mean

Every notice in the register carries one of four statuses, and there are only these four. Nothing appears here without one.

In force

The best current reading is that the notice is live at the transfer date. Comply with it.

Expired

The notice lapsed on its own terms, usually because it cancelled itself on a date written into it. It is kept in the archive and is never shown as current.

Superseded

A later notice cancelled it, or reissued it under a later number, so the older number is spent. The replacing notice is named. Kept for the record.

Named as in force, not held

Another notice, one that we do hold, names this notice as being in force. We do not have it. It is published nowhere, it did not come across in the handover records, and its contents are unknown to us. We have asked Associated British Ports for it. If a notice in this state might affect you, contact the harbour office before you sail.

This does not mean the notice is being withheld, and it is not a decision anybody took. It means a document exists somewhere, another notice says it binds you, and we cannot produce it. A mariner is better served by knowing there is a gap than by a clean list that pretends there is not.

The register

Notices carried over from the outgoing authority are marked as not yet released for publication: the register records them, and the documents themselves are being reissued.

In force (13)

In force, Port of Fleetwood
Notice	Subject	Issued	Detail
007 of 2026	Fleetwood 2026	30/06/2026	Buoy no 9 (starboard hand) reported unlit. Buoy no 6 (port hand) restored. Navigate with extreme caution in the channel.
001 of 2026	Sluicing Program 2026	02/01/2026	2026 sluicing programme for the dock channel.
024 of 2024	Dock Channel Buoy Moves	19/11/2024	New positions for buoys 23, 24 and 25 and a new buoy 27.
014 of 2024	Water Supply for Commercial Vessels	16/05/2024	Fish quay water points isolated and out of use; pontoon water for leisure marina customers only.
010 of 2024	River Wyre/Dock Channel latest soundings	27/02/2024	Latest soundings for the River Wyre and the dock channel.
004 of 2024	Bunkering operations fuel and fresh water	01/01/2024	Bunkering operations, fuel and fresh water.
003 of 2024	Work requiring Harbour Master's permission or consent	01/01/2024	Work requiring the harbour master's permission or consent.
018 of 2023	Safe mooring on quay walls	14/11/2023	Safe mooring on quay walls.
017 of 2023	Safe use of the Marine Slipway	30/10/2023	Slipway may be used by marina customers at their own risk.
010 of 2022	Vessel reporting requirements	11/07/2022	Vessel reporting requirements, VHF Channel 12, and lock gate operating times.
009 of 2022	Water ski-ing including jet skis within Fleetwood Harbour	11/07/2022	Quotes byelaw 33 of the Fleetwood Harbour and Docks Bye-Laws 1982.
008 of 2022	Fleetwood Marina - Minimum safe speed	06/06/2022	Fleetwood Marina minimum safe speed.
006 of 2022	Wyre Dock Sections A/B/D - closed to navigation	31/05/2022	Sections A, B and D closed until further notice. Entrance to C Section is between the yellow capped piles.

Named as in force, not held (6)

Named as in force, not held, Port of Fleetwood
Notice	Subject	Issued	Detail
019 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in LNtM 024 of 2024, dated 19/11/2024, which completes the buoy moves promulgated in 019 of 2024. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.
013 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in Fleetwood LNtM 014 of 2024, dated 16/05/2024, which prints its own in-force list naming it. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.
012 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in Fleetwood LNtM 014 of 2024, dated 16/05/2024, which prints its own in-force list naming it. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.
008 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in Fleetwood LNtM 014 of 2024, dated 16/05/2024, which prints its own in-force list naming it. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.
002 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in Fleetwood LNtM 014 of 2024, dated 16/05/2024, which prints its own in-force list naming it. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.
001 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Named in Fleetwood LNtM 014 of 2024, dated 16/05/2024, which prints its own in-force list naming it. No copy obtained; it is not cancelled.

Expired (1)

Expired, Port of Fleetwood
Notice	Subject	Issued	Detail
014 of 2023	Introduction of Merchant Shipping Order 2023	07/07/2023	Introduction of the Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order 2023.

Superseded (3)

Superseded, Port of Fleetwood
Notice	Subject	Issued	Detail
023 of 2024	Title not published	Not published	Cancelled by LNtM 024 of 2024, dated 19/11/2024.
02 of 2011	Vessel reporting requirements (earlier issue)	Not published	Superseded by LNtM 010 of 2022.
02 of 2003	Water ski-ing and jet skis (earlier issue)	Not published	Superseded by LNtM 009 of 2022.

Two things the list will not tell you on its own. Some notices run out rather than being replaced: a sluicing programme is spent when its last date passes, and a notice reporting a defective mark holds good only until the mark is restored. Every notice carried over from Associated British Ports is being reissued in the new authority's name.

How to be told about a new notice

Notices affecting charts and Admiralty publications are also reported to the UK Hydrographic Office so that charts are corrected.

Update coming

How new notices will be promulgated, Fleetwood. This is being confirmed and will be published here.

Notices to port users

Notices to port users cover commercial and operational matters rather than navigation and safety. This port publishes none today.