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48696ce5-5180-5a43-9d9a-321425c0966d · GBLON · Northern Europe

St Katharine Docks

Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom · 51.507°N 0.071°W

MIXEDCOORDINATEDOPERATIONAL

A locked historic dock beside Tower Bridge. Air draft, lock booking, the Thames Barrier and the river's commercial traffic are all first-class constraints. The product is London, not a cruising basin.

Live channels · not a chart · not a reservation

Estimate

Partlycloudy at 2026-10-14T03:00:00Z Europe/London. Wind 4 kn from WSW. It is after local sunset. If this harbour publishes a night-entry restriction, treat it as active until sunrise. Nearest IOC gauge Sheerness (56.5 km) last observed 5.956 m — observational only, not a tide table or controlling depth.

Wind
4 kn WSW
Gusts
—
Waves
—
Twilight
Night

Max LOA

50 m

Reported

Max draft

3 m

Reported

VHF

80

Verified

October band

MODERATE

Estimate

Captain Arrival Brief

Deterministic, source-backed projection. Not legal advice. Not clearance authorization. Never a safety determination.

INCOMPATIBLENOT_COVEREDCOSTS INCOMPLETEINSUFFICIENT_DATA

Identity

St Katharine Docks · 48696ce5-5180-5a43-9d9a-321425c0966d

GB

Vessel & target arrival

LOA 52 m · beam 9.4 m · draft 3.1 m

Arrival 2026-08-12T12:00:00Z · factsAt 2026-08-12T12:00:00Z

Static compatibility

INCOMPATIBLE

Matching berth classes: Standard <22 m PHYSICALLY_INCOMPATIBLE · Large yacht 22–50 m PHYSICALLY_INCOMPATIBLE

Physical berths: UNKNOWN — no inventory

Approach / depth

Entrance controlling depth UNKNOWN. Guest schematic is not a chart.

Published draft 3 m · datum UNKNOWN

Swell UNKNOWN — swell is not invented from significant wave height.

Formalities

Pilotage: No matching PILOTAGE rule is recorded for this harbour/jurisdiction. That is NOT_COVERED, not NOT_REQUIRED.

Towage: No matching TOWAGE rule is recorded for this harbour/jurisdiction. That is NOT_COVERED, not NOT_REQUIRED.

Customs: No matching CUSTOMS rule is recorded for this harbour/jurisdiction. That is NOT_COVERED, not NOT_REQUIRED.

Immigration: No matching IMMIGRATION rule is recorded for this harbour/jurisdiction. That is NOT_COVERED, not NOT_REQUIRED.

Decision-support intelligence only. Not legal advice. Not clearance authorization. maritimIQ does not authorize entry and does not determine formal status.

Services

Fuel: No fuel facility record. Missing service is UNKNOWN, not unavailable.

Shore power: No shore-power specification recorded.

Water: No freshwater record. Water is not inferred from waste.

Waste: No waste or pump-out record. Solid waste ≠ black-water pump-out.

Refit: No sourced refit capability. Marketing prose is not a capability.

Medical: No medical relationship. A nearby clinic is not an emergency hospital.

Airport / transport: No airport relationship. Airport Intelligence is an external product boundary.

Known harbor costs

none GBP · incomplete

Tax: Tax treatment UNKNOWN. Not assumed included.

Source currency: GBP

Reference conversion: FX not applied — source currency retained. rate=none

Unknown charges: none listed

Traffic

0 in approach, 0 inside harbor radius, LOW (0 moving / 0 in approach / 0 inside harbor radius)

Occupancy: INSUFFICIENT_DATA. AIS does not see dark vessels, covered yachts, or berth identity.

Seasonality: HIGH summer and event weeks on the Thames · forecast DEFERRED

Traffic is not availability. Capacity is not occupancy. A reservation flag is not a live berth. EMODnet density is historical context. Forecast is deferred.

Warnings & restrictions

SPEED: Dead slow, no wake inside the harbour.

BRIDGE: Locked dock on a tidal commercial river. Lock booking, PLA reporting and air draft are separate constraints.

UNKNOWN — upcoming warning coverage is not a global feed.

Alternatives

Cowes Yacht Haven · 119 km · certainty LOW · score 0.301 · alt-rank-1.0

Ocean Village · 114 km · certainty LOW · score 0.281 · alt-rank-1.0

Lymington Yacht Haven · 132 km · certainty LOW · score 0.263 · alt-rank-1.0

Unknown / conflicted / stale

Unknown: vessel.airDraftM, vessel.displacementT, waterLevel, current, wind, waves, visibility, formality.PORT_ENTRY, formality.ADVANCE_NOTICE, formality.PILOTAGE, formality.TOWAGE, formality.CUSTOMS, formality.IMMIGRATION, formality.HEALTH, formality.SECURITY, formality.COMMERCIAL, formality.NOAD, formality.EMSWE

Conflicted: none listed

Stale: Pilotage price: 1999 franc ordinance remains STALE. Current price UNKNOWN.

Source index

compiled-ledger · decision-engine · aisstream-optional · none · USCG NVMC / eCFR · EUR-Lex

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