Paper Charts

Thomas Gunn Navigation Services Ltd have been serving the professional mariner in the SOLAS regulated market for over three decades and is the worlds largest International Admiralty Chart Agent.

We stock a wide range of paper charts from various international suppliers including worldwide coverage of British Admiralty Charts & Publications, Norwegian, Canadian, US, Russian, Australian & New Zealand H.O. products. Our fully trained chart correctors ensure the chart series is fully up to date and available for immediate dispatch.

BRITISH ADMIRALTY CHARTS

STANDARD NAUTICAL CHARTS - The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) produces an unrivalled series of over 3,300 Standard Nautical Charts which meet the requirements of professional, commercial and recreational navigation in accordance with SOLAS regulations, ensuring safe navigation at sea.

Admiralty Standard Nautical Charts are produced in a range of scales for safe ocean navigation covering passage planning, harbours and nautical hazards, anchorages, coastal and offshore navigation.

To ensure safe navigation, it is recommended that mariners always use nautical charts of the largest appropriate scale. In particularly busy seaways such as The English Channel, Gulf of Suez and the Malacca and Singapore Straits, the Admiralty SNC series is supplemented by Mariners Routeing Guides which advise on route planning and all necessary regulations appropriate to the area of navigation.

Admiralty Notices to Mariners, weekly editions, contain information which enables the mariner to keep his charts and books published by UKHO up-to-date for the latest reports received. New editions and new charts are listed in advance in Weekly Notices to Mariners in booklet format and via the website.

THEMATIC CHARTS - Specialist charts in series which can be used to supplement the Standard Nautical charts.

Load Line Regulations

Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations cover the draught to which vessels subject to SOLAS regulations may be loaded in designated zones across the world. The Load Line Chart (D6083) reflects changes made in the 1998 Merchant Shipping Regulations and includes the latest designated zones and seasonal periods relating to Load Line Rules.

Admiralty Routeing Guides

These charts provide important Passage Planning information in addition to details of Traffic Separation Schemes for the major shipping areas of the English Channel, North Sea, Gulf of Suez, Malacca and Singapore Straits.

Planning Charts

These charts are ideal as planning tools and can also be used for educational, travel and decorative purposes. They are a series of small scale charts covering all significant ports worldwide that are available in various scales.

Co-Tidal Charts

Co-Tidal Charts and Co-Range Charts are used primarily to predict offshore tidal conditions.

Astronomical Charts

Astronomical Charts, as used for traditional navigation, facilitate the accurate plotting of a ship's position from Astronomical observations.

Gnomonic Charts

These charts are used in Passage Planning to plot great circle routes as a straight line. They are useful for devising composite rhumb line courses. Fifteen charts cover the world at scales of 1:13,500,000 and 1:26,500,000.

Magnetic Variation Charts

These charts show the variation of Magnetic Fields. Whilst local information is shown on all charts, this series provides more detailed coverage on a worldwide level.

Meteorological Charts and Diagrams

These charts form a series of 27 Meteorological working charts.

NORWEGIAN CHARTS

The hardcopy maritime chart series comprises standard navigational charts for the coast of Norway, the coast of Svalbard, maritime zones and harbours.

The charts are regularly updated and printed after the initial issue. The time period between each printing will vary depending on the number and type of corrections, sales, etc.

Available Chart Types:

• Main charts
• Harbour charts
• Coastal charts
• General charts
• Fisheries charts

It is the responsibility of the users to update the maritime charts after the date of the last "Notices to Mariners" that the charts were updated with. In addition to data obtained through surveys carried out by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service itself, information on changes to infrastructure along the coast is also collected from various public bodies. This includes cable data, lights and navaids, bridges, etc. Changes of significant navigational importance are published consecutively in the publication "Notices to Mariners".

US CHARTS

US charts are produced by the Office of Coast Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

NOAA produces and maintains a suite of nautical charts that cover the coastal waters of the U.S. and its territories.

The traditional paper chart is one of NOAA's signature products. The comprehensive suite of traditional paper charts can be used to navigate the Great Lakes and the coastal waters of the U.S. and its territories. (Traditional charts meet U.S. Coast Guard carriage requirements in U.S. waters.)

When a new chart edition is created, it includes the latest nautical information available to NOAA up until the time of printing. New editions are published when one or more changes of navigational importance render the prior printing obsolete. During a typical year, NOAA may create 200 to 300 new chart editions. The edition number and date (month and year of printing) are found in the lower left corner of the chart. The dates of the latest Notice to Mariners and Local Notice to Mariners corrections applied to the chart are also listed.

The date of a chart is of vital importance to the navigator. When charted information becomes obsolete, further use of the chart for navigation may be dangerous. Natural and artificial changes, many of them critical, are occurring constantly. It is important that navigators obtain the latest edition of a chart, and correct their copies at regular intervals with changes published in the Notices to Mariners.

CANADIAN CHARTS

Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) produces and publishes almost 1,000 nautical charts covering Canadian waters. Nautical charts show hazards, aids to navigation, features along the shoreline and the seafloor, as well as man-made and natural features of the area.

Canadian charts cover waters used primarily by commercial navigation. Paper charts are hand-amended up to the date of distribution by CHS.

AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND CHARTS

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) produce paper charts covering both Australian & New Zealand waters. Admiralty Notices to Mariners, weekly editions, contain information which enables the mariner to keep AUS & NZ charts published by UKHO up-to-date for the latest reports received.

We can also supply charts produced by The Australian Hydrographic Service and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

RUSSIAN CHARTS

Nautical charts published by Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography of Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (HDNO MD RF) are official documents containing data on navigation, hydrographic, geodetic and hydrometeorologic elements of the situation in areas of oceans and seas and adjacent territories, and in aggregate are intended for navigational safety at sea.

The Russian collection contains 6800 nautical navigation charts, and over 1500 of them are bilingual (Russian and English).

• General charts (1:5,000,000 - 1:1,000,000) are used for general navigation planning.
• Route charts (larger than 1:1,000,000 and to 1:100,000 inclusive) used for navigation between ports.
• Large scale charts (larger than 1:100 000 and less than 1:25,000) used for coastal navigation & narrow channels etc.
• Sea plans (1:25,000 - 1:500) are used for entering ports, harbours, bays, roads, berths, etc.

LEISURE CHARTS

Nautical charts published by Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography of Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (HDNO MD RF) are official documents containing data on navigation, hydrographic, geodetic and hydrometeorologic elements of the situation in areas of oceans and seas and adjacent territories, and in aggregate are intended for navigational safety at sea.

The Russian collection contains 6800 nautical navigation charts, and over 1500 of them are bilingual (Russian and English).

• General charts (1:5,000,000 - 1:1,000,000) are used for general navigation planning.
• Route charts (larger than 1:1,000,000 and to 1:100,000 inclusive) used for navigation between ports.
• Large scale charts (larger than 1:100 000 and less than 1:25,000) used for coastal navigation & narrow channels etc.
• Sea plans (1:25,000 - 1:500) are used for entering ports, harbours, bays, roads, berths, etc.