UK marine equipment database
The UK marine equipment approval database is a list of marine equipment which has been granted UK conformity assessment.
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Marine equipment must be UK-approved to be placed on board UK ships. This means it has valid UK conformity assessment certification and carries the Red Ensign - the UK conformity mark for marine equipment. Please see Part I of MSN 1874 as amended for further details.
Equipment covered under the UK-US Mutual Recognition Agreement for marine equipment, approved by the United States Coast Guard (USCG), accompanied by a US declaration of conformity, and affixed with the Red Ensign UK conformity mark is also acceptable. Please see Annex 6 of MSN 1874 as amended for details of what marine equipment categories are covered under the Agreement.
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4 July 2025 Marine equipment database updated for June 2025
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2 June 2025 May 2025 version added
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9 May 2025 Marine equipment database updated for April 2025
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24 April 2025 Text within the 'Body' has been updated along with the removal of the 'related content section'.
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10 April 2025 March 25 version added
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5 March 2025 File attachment for UK Marine Equipment Database updated from January (01/25) version to February 2025 (02/25) version.
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5 February 2025 Attachment updated from Rev 12/24 to Rev 01/25.
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3 January 2025 Marine equipment database updated for December 2024
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3 December 2024 Marine equipment database updated for November 2024
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6 November 2024 October version added. September version removed
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2 October 2024 Updated the database to September 2024
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3 September 2024 Marine equipment database updated for August 2024
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6 August 2024 Marine Equipment Database April csv attachment deleted and replaced with Marine Equipment Database July csv attachment
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30 April 2024 Marine equipment database updated for April 2024
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28 March 2024 Latest database 03/24 replaces 02/24
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29 February 2024 Updated database for February 2024
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1 February 2024 Marine equipment database updated for December 2023
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3 January 2024 Novembers update to the database uploaded.
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29 November 2023 Marine equipment database updated for October 2023
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31 October 2023 Updated with the UK marine equipment database as of September 2023.
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29 September 2023 Augusts update to the MED uploaded
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31 August 2023 Updated UK Marine Equipment Database - July 2023
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31 July 2023 Updated database for June.
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30 June 2023 Updated UK Marine Equipment Database - May 2023
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31 May 2023 Updated database for April to replace the March version.
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28 April 2023 Database for March 2023 uploaded
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24 March 2023 Link to MSN 1874 A6 replaced by link to MSN 1874 A7
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23 March 2023 Updated UK Marine Equipment Database - February 2023
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31 January 2023 Confirmed as an updated version of January spreadsheet for the whole of January 2023.
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12 January 2023 Database for the first half of January 2023 uploaded
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3 January 2023 December's database uploaded
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1 December 2022 November update added
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4 November 2022 October 2022 update added.
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4 October 2022 Uploaded Septembers Database
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5 September 2022 Updated database for August added
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3 August 2022 Updated link to reflect latest amendment to MIN 590 and some body text removed
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29 July 2022 Replaces Junes Marine Equipment Database update database with Julys Marine Equipment Database update
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1 July 2022 Updated link to reflect change from MSN1874 Amendment 5 to Amendment 6
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30 June 2022 Updated June database
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6 June 2022 Uploaded UK marine equipment database May 2022
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29 April 2022 Uploaded UK marine equipment database April 2022
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4 April 2022 Uploaded March’s update to the UK Marine Equipment Database and deleted MSN 1874 amendment 4, replaced with amendment 5
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4 March 2022 02/22 version added
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4 February 2022 added January 2022 cvs version of spreadsheet
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6 January 2022 Attachments updated with Decembers attachments
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2 December 2021 November databases uploaded
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2 November 2021 uploaded databases for October 2021
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4 October 2021 Uploaded new versions of UK Marine equipment database sept 2021
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2 September 2021 Uploading August databases
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2 August 2021 Uploaded revised UK marine equipment approval databases
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2 July 2021 June databases uploaded
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2 June 2021 Marine Equipment Approval Database updated for May 2021
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4 May 2021 New databases uploaded
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1 April 2021 Uploaded March 2021 databases
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9 March 2021 Uploaded February 2021 databases
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4 February 2021 Uploaded Jan 2021 database
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30 December 2020 First published.