Serving and Training Your Local Maritime Community

The Maritime Volunteer Services is a company limited by Guarantee No. 3003565.

A Registered Charity in England and Wales No. 1048454 and in Scotland SC 039269

Registered Address: 17 Cromwell Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 4TH, UK.

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Command and Control

 

The Maritime Volunteer Service offers Command and Control skills and experience to support event organisers and at emergencies or exercises.

 

The skills include:

 

• Command of deployed resources both ashore and afloat,
• Advanced radio communications with call logging and message handling
• Accurate plotting and reporting of incidents using charts and maps
• Using computers to record events, incidents and actions
• Preparation and presentation of relevant reports to those in charge of the event or emergency

 

 

Examples include:

 

• International Fleet Review in the Solent in 2005 where a small MVS team aboard the event control ship - HMS Albion - controlled the deployment of 20 marshall craft.
• International Festivals of the Sea in 1998, 2001 and 2005 where an MVS team deployed RIBs and launches to control the safe berthing of over 400 pleasure craft within HM Naval Base, Portsmouth.
• Support for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) within their Weymouth Control Centre during the early days of the MV Napoli grounding incident in Lyme Bay.
• Support for the MCA within their Lee-on-the-Solent Control Centre following the sinking of the MV Ice Prince whose timber cargo was being washed ashore.
• Support for Bournemouth Borough Council through the local MCA Sector Manager during the Bournemouth Air Festival when MVS craft were deployed to maintain an extensive safety zone.

 

 

These skills can be made available at a highly competitive rate which ensures all costs are met and that volunteers are not out of pocket"   

 

Therefore, if you have an event that may require our services

please contact us for further details.