Senior Marine Pilot – Grade HM2 (Two Positions)

The role of a Tug Master undertaking harbour towage activities is a very specific one. He/she has to, alone or in cooperation with other Tug Masters, assist a ship in a safe and efficient way using his/her tug to the best of its qualities. 

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The Virginia Pilot Association has taken delivery of a Chesapeake Class MK II launch from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, its ninth pilot boat built by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard since 1983.

Since the Chesapeake Class pilot boat was introduced by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard in 2003, 22 boats have been delivered to 11 pilot associations throughout the United States.

by Rhys Davies, current Apprentice. Published already in Feb. 2020 by ABP.

To monitor the vessel’s progress, the pilot had set up his portable pilotage unit (PPU). He had connected the rate-of-turn generator to the vessel’s pilot plug and had set a variable range marker on the radar with a radius of 0.5 nm.

Let's change our perspective and see how the team sets up an accommodation ladder.

Video by marine pilot ESIL ABIBULA.

A man in his own element. Meet Pilot Fabio Fontes, the oldest maritime pilot in activity at 84.

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