‘File 28/70 Navicert Rules, Regulations and Instructions’ [‎259r] (517/612)

may obtain Ship Navicerts on application. Such exemption does not extend to Ocean
going vessels whose final destination is beyond those territories, and these should be
furnished with Ship Navicerts. At the same time it is highly important for the
due observance of the rationing arrangements contemplated in the case of each of
these countries or territories, that the Ministry of Economic Warfare should be in possession
of the fullest details procurable of all goods imported or exported by each of them. Special
arrangements have therefore been made whereby the arrivals and departures of all vessels,
of whatever category, at or from ports in Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, and
Tangier, are reported to the Ministry by means of a daily return on a specified form, with
particulars of the cargo they load for, or unload from, the neighbouring countries or
territories. The departures of vessels whether with or without. Ship Navicerts, on routes
where these are compulsory, should be reported by telegraph in the approved form, and
be repeated to Gibraltar, specifying the date and hour of departure, destination and any
intermediate ports of call (with anticipated date of arrival at first port of call) and all
necessary particulars respecting mails, passengers, etc. Consuls at intermediate ports
should in their turn report the departure of the vessel.
The arrival of vessels in Spain or Portugal at ports other than those to which it was
declared when granted a Ship Navicert they intended to proceed should be at once reported
by telegraph in the manner enjoined in paragraph 11 above.
Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic Islands
24. Vessels trading between Spain or Portugal and the Canary, Azores, Madeira or
Cape Verde Islands ; or between Spanish Morocco or Tangier and those Islands ; or
between the Spanish Islands and the Portuguese Islands, require to be furnished with
Ship Navicerts. If vessels engaged in longer oversea voyages, and already furnished with
Ship Navicerts, call at those Islands to load additional cargo there a fresh Ship Navicert
becomes necessary, and should be applied for at the local British Consulate. If, on the
other hand, such vessels call solely for the purpose of obtaining necessary ships’ stores
or bunkers, without loading any additional cargo there, then, in view of the terms of the
Master’s original undertaking, the following rules should be observed :—
(1) H.M. Consul should endorse the Ship Navicert already held by the vessel
to the effect that the ship called at to load tons of bunkers
and/or ...... tons of ship’ stores, and that the Ship Navicert is now valid
to (next port of call).
(2) A list of the stores embarked, signed by the Master and H.M. Consul, should
be attached to the Master’s original undertaking, the latter being endorsed
(against “ Ship’s stores and Lubricating Oil ”) to the effect that the list
has been so appended.
(3) Similarly the Master’s original undertaking should be endorsed and signed
by the Master and H.M. Consul to show the amount of bunkers taken in.
Vessels sailing from Latin-American countries with cargoes of grain, etc., and putting
into those Islands for orders as to their final port of destination, must also obtain new
Ship Navicerts there for the completion of their voyage.
The instructions to British Consuls in those Islands enjoin that the arrivals of all
vessels should be reported by telegraph with the following particulars :—date of arrival;
where the vessel has sailed from ; any cargo not covered by navicerts ; in the case of
tankers all cargo even if covered by navicerts ; cargo to be discharged locally whether
covered by navicerts or not; and any cargo to be transhipped, with the name of the
on-carrying ship. Departures should continue to be reported by telegraph, with the
customary particulars, and should indicate by the prefix “ Important^ Ship Navicert ”
or “ Most Immediate. Without ” (see paragraph 6) whether the ship carries a Ship
Navicert or not. The system of daily returns of the arrivals and departures of ships and
cargoes (referred to in paragraph 23 above) has also been extended to these Islands.
Potuguese Colonies (Angola, Mozambique)
25. In the case of goods shipped from Angola, Mozambique, or San Thome, to
Portugal or Portuguese Guinea or the Portuguese Atlantic Islands, the Ship Navicert
should be made valid only to the vessel’s next port of call, where a further Ship Navicert
may be obtained for the next succeeding stage of the voyage to the following port of call.
The endorsement on the Ship’s manifest should be to the following effect:—
" I hereby certify that all cargo loaded at has been passed for
export, and that this endorsement constitutes a Ship Navicert which is only valid
up to and excluding (name of next port of loading whether a port
where there is a British Consul or not).”