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Collisions in the River Scheldt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Netherlands Pilots' Association
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On 30 March 1966, Captain A. Wepster, of the Holland-America Line, presented a paper to the Institution on collisions in Western European rivers. Through its publication in the Journal it had considerable impact on opinion abroad and in particular in the Netherlands where it became popularly known in nautical circles as the Wepster Report.

The Netherlands Pilots’ Association invited its nautical committee for the areas most concerned to investigate the findings of Wepster's paper and it is their report which is presented here.

The Wepster Report is a general discussion of the dangers and problems of navigation on the five main navigable rivers of Western Europe. It attempts a critical investigation into the causes of the decline of safety on these rivers and a good deal of attention is paid to the working methods of pilots and of the various institutions charged with organizing river traffic. Captain Wepster concludes his lecture with the remark: ‘… it is now to be hoped that others will throw some light upon it from another angle.’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 448 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1968

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