Tributes from the broad maritime community around the world were published on websites in the hours following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the afternoon of 8 September.

Below we publish just three examples from the extensive text, illustrations and film we have seen in the vast library that is the World Wide Web.

It was reported on 30 August that US Coast Guard Sector San Juan’s Aids to Navigation Team had completed a rebuild project for the Current Rock and Steven Cay navigation lights in the US Virgin Islands the previous week.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the significant progress on the implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and critical role of seafarers in delivering global trade, during a visit to Odesa, Ukraine.

Three years and five months after leaving Dartmouth on his voyage to meet every Harbour Master in the British Isles, Mark has returned to his home port of Dartmouth on the final day of the Royal Regatta.

On 27th August 2022, he was welcomed back by Paul Britton, the 210th Harbour Master he has met on his odyssey sailing around the country clockwise.  The journey has taken him into every nook and cranny of England, Scotland, and Wales with a friendly welcome in over 250 harbours and ports.

Lessons for Durban and Cape Town?

East Suffolk Council has appointed ABPmer as its Designated Person under the requirements of the Department for Transport’s Port Marine Safety Code (PMSC) for its harbour in Southwold.

A new green cross-channel ferry service is due to launch in September 2022, taking passengers across the English Channel via fast commercial sailing catamarans. SailLink will shortly be transiting passengers between Dover and Boulogne-Sur-Mer, with a crossing time of approximately four hours.

Completing his trip to Europe on 20 August UN SG António Guterres oversaw the departure of two ships involved in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered operation to bring urgently needed hunger relief to the Horn of Africa.

Irish Lights (www.irishlights.ie ) has announced a major conference ‘Navigating To 2050 – A safe and sustainable maritime future’. 

This will be held in Dublin Castle on 15 and 16 November 2022 and a virtual attendance is also available.

A  new heatwave, the fourth since the beginning of June 2022,  is ongoing in central and western Europe.

According to the national weather services, air temperatures  between 9 and 14 August could again exceed 44°C in Spain,  40°C in France, 35°C in the south of the United Kingdom and 30°C in the Netherlands.