Welcome to the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth website.

The site has been constructed in order to provide an easily accessible source of both safety and general information for the many and varied maritime users of the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth and those waters of the Eastern and Central Solent governed by the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order 2005.

Please take the time to familiarise yourself with the key safety information (Local Notices to Mariners and Local Navigation Warnings) along with the wealth of other useful information that is available on the site.

LNTM
Keep up to date with local notices to mariners as issued by QHM Portsmouth.more >>
NavWarn
Review all the navigation warnings currently in effect as issued by QHM Portsmouth.more >>
Movements
Daily naval and commercial shipping movements for the week ahead.more >>
Incidents
If you have been involved in or have witnessed an incident you can report it online.more >>

Latest News

ROYAL NAVY “AMBASSADORS” - HMS ST ALBANS RETURNS TO PORTSMOUTH FROM FOUR CORNERS OF EUROPE

Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans returns to her home port on Friday July 3 following a successful and varied NATO deployment. Families and Navy colleagues will welcome home the ship as she arrives in Portsmouth Naval Base after six months away. The ship has recently completed Exercise “Baltops 2009” in the Baltic working alongside ships from both NATO and other Navies in the region. This large maritime annual exercise has promoted mutual understanding between NATO and Partnership for Peace participants in the region since 1993. Exercise “Baltops 2009” brings thousands of multinational sailors together in a joint response to a variety of maritime security scenarios, incorporating anti-submarine and anti-air warfare, radar tracking, interception, mine countermeasures, search and rescue, and maritime interdiction operations to prevent smuggling of arms, people and weapons.

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