Northern Lighthouse Board

NOTICE TO MARINERS

19 of 2010

SCOTLAND

Automatic Identification System (AIS)

Northern Lighthouse Board
Edinburgh, 5 July 2010

Mariners are advised that, with effect from 16 JULY 2010, the following previously experimental AIS Aids to Navigation will be transmitting an operational service.

Name: Neist Point
MMSI: 992320187
Type: Light, without sectors
Position: 57° 25.396’ North 006° 47.261’ West

Name: Rubh ReLighthouse
MMSI: 992320797
Type: Light, without sectors
Position: 57° 51.524’ North 005° 48.707’ West

Name: Fife Ness
MMSI: 002320798
Type: Light, with sectors
Position: 56° 16.728’ North 002° 35.159’ West

Name: Butt of Lewis Lighthouse
MMSI: 002320799
Type: Light, without sectors
Position: 58° 30.933’ North 006° 15.657’ West

Name: Sumburgh Head
MMSI: 992320181
Type: Light, without sectors
Position: 59° 51.230’ North 001° 16.500’ West

Mariners using certain Radar and Electronic Chart Displays may see a symbol on the display and, on interrogation, the above information and bearing & distance from the observer will be available. If displayed, the screen symbol for an AIS AtoN is a diamond shape. Mariners are referred to NOTICE TO MARINERS NO 2 OF 2010 (DATED 7 JANUARY 2010), for further information.

Mariners are requested to contact the General Lighthouse Authorities regarding their experience of AIS and in particular the extent to which AIS AtoN data is available to them.

R G LOCKWOOD
Chief Executive

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