If a vessel is currently registered with the UK Ship Register but you would like to remove it from the registry, this can now be processed online:

https://ukshipregister.service.mcga.gov.uk

There is no fee to close a vessel’s registration.

The following documents are required to close a vessel’s registration:

• Application to remove a British ship from the register - MSF 4744
• This form must be completed and sent with the original certificate of registry, to the Registry of Shipping and Seamen (RSS):

Registry of Shipping and Seamen
Anchor Court, Keen Road
Cardiff CF24 5JW

Telephone:

02039 085204 (Pleasure)

02039 085202 (Fishing)
02039 085203 (Commercial)
Email:

comm.registry@mcga.gov.uk
part1.registry@mcga.gov.uk
fishing@mcga.gov.uk

A vessel may be deleted from documentation upon the request of the vessel owner or an authorized agent on behalf of the owner. The request must be in writing and must include the vessel’s official number and reason for deletion. The original Certificate of Documentation (COD) is to be returned by the owner named on the certificate

Please provide evidence of sale or transfer AND a statement indicating the nationality of owner and/or country in which vessel will be flagged (in the event the vessel is being sold to a non-US citizen(s) or being flagged in a foreign country).

If a letter evidencing removal from documentation is required, include that information in the letter request with fee of $15.

If the request for deletion is accompanied by a complete, original or copy of a bill of sale and $8 per page filing fee, it may be recorded to evidence transfer of ownership.

Instructions: NVDCINST 16713

Credit Card Payment Form: CG7042

Mailing Address:

USCG NVDC

792 T. J. Jackson Drive Falling Waters,

WV 25419

+1 304-271-2400

NVDC.PDF.FILING@uscg.mil

No fees are associated with return of a flag certificate.

Please use the Return of a flag certificate form (only available in German), print out each completed form, sign it and send it to the BSH by post.

Please submit your application in good time. Applications will be processed in the order in which they are received. If there is a high volume of applications, you will have to expect a longer processing time.

• The 1) original registration document must be returned together with a 2) cancellation request and a copy of the 3) Bill of sale document to the office of DG Navigation.
• A deregistration notice will be sent to you by email

An original registration document can be:

1. the original commercial or non-commercial flag letter (lettre de pavillon)
2. and/or the orginal license plate (plaque d'immatriculation)
3. and/or the original of the registration document (document d'immatriculation)
4. or the original business and professional registration letter ( lettre d'enregistrement)

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Cancellation request document:

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DG Navigation

Rue du Progres 56

1210 Bruxelles

Belgium

1. If you have a valid or expired ICP from the Watersportverbond, you can request an 'ICP deregistration valid or expired ICP' for an existing vessel online using the same login and password for original registration: https://webshop.watersporters.nl
2. After requesting your deregistration, you must send the original ICP by post with a cover letter. In the cover letter note that you need deregistration. Please include your address and e-mail address: 
3. Costs of ICP deregistration: €20.00

Contact the Watersportverbond to get instructions for de-registering by post:

Watersportverbond

Orteliuslaan 1041

3528 BE Utrecht

NETHERLANDS

Phone: +31 030 3077500
Email: info@watersportverbond.nl

The deletion application must be filed with the Sea Captaincy (Capitania Maritima) with these documents:

1. Copy of passport or ID
2. Original Bill of Sale
3. Original Spanish navigation license (Patente de navegacion) and Navigation authorization (Rol de despacho y navegacion)
4. Radio license certificate (Licencia de Estacion de Barco)
5. Certificate from a radio technician of de-programming MMSI
6. Petition to unsubscribe flag (Solicitud de baja)

Download a petition to unsubscribe flag:

Solicitud de baja

Online unscubscribe request:

https://sede.mitma.gob.es/SEDE_ELECTRONICA/LANG_CASTELLANO/OFICINAS_SECTORIALES/MARINA_MERCANTE/Registro_buques/aband_matric_baja/Baja/

• Send a request to the State of Delaware DRNEC

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State of Delaware

Division of Fish and Wildlife

89 Kings Highway

Dover, DE 19901

USA

+1 302 739 9916

dnrecboatreg@delaware.gov

 http://www.facebook.com/DelawareFishWildlife

• Applications for the de-registration of a watercraft in a paper version should be submitted to the Resident Service Department of the City Hall, Economic Activity Department.
• A residential address in Poland is required

Where the owner of a small ship desires to close the register of such small ship, he shall make an application to that effect to the Authority, giving all such particulars and information as the Authority may require for the purpose.

Client may either call personally at SSR Office or send another person, or may wish to mail all documents together with a cheque payment payable to ‘Transport Malta’. Once processed, a Deletion Certificate is issued and sent to client. Documents to be submitted:

• Copy of ID Card (front and back) for verification purposes only;
• Last original Certificate of Registry.
• Form SSR 126
• Payment

Form SSR 126: Request for closure of registration of a small ship:

Download Application SSR 126 Form

Address:

Registrar of Ships

Merchant Shipping Directorate,
Malta Transport Centre

Triq Pantar, Hal-Lija

LJA 2021 Malta

In the event that you just want to deregister your boat (e.g. when selling it abroad), please use the Registration and deregistration form.

Registration and deregistration form

ÖSTERREICHISCHER SEGEL-VERBAND
A-7100 NEUSIEDL AM SEE
Seegelände 10
phone: +43 2167 40 243
fax: +43 2167 40 300

With an act of francization ( acte de francisation):
You must contact the customs office and then send your file to the registration service of pleasure craft of the delegation to the sea and the coast (with the documents requested below)

With a circulation card (carte de circulation):
To put together your dossier, you must attach:

• Your handwritten request for cancellation for export, specifying the vessel's registration number and the country of export;
• The original + the copy of your circulation card (carte de circulation);
• The original + the copy of the deed of sale (dated and signed);
• A copy of your identity card or passport;
• Proof of address;
• A sworn statement indicating that the vessel is leaving for export (specify the country);
• Attach a simple stamped envelope (for the return of the cancellation certificate)
• A mobile phone number

Warning: In the absence of all these elements the file will not be able to be investigated

Contact information for all Departmental Directorates of Territories and the Sea - Delegation to the sea and the coast:

https://www.mer.gouv.fr/coordonnees-des-services-plaisance-immatriculation-et-enregistrement-des-navires-permis-plaisance#e1

Download: Zahtjev za Brisanje Pormorskog Objekta

The documents to be sent to remove a vessel from the VISR (Virgin Ilands Shipping Registry) are:

• A letter from the Owner on record to the Registrar of Shipping (original)
• A copy of the Bill of Sale (VISR formatted Bill of Sale only)
• A copy of Certificate of Good Standing (if owner is a company)
• A certified copy of list of Director(s) (issued by the Registry of Corporate Affairs)
• Payment of annual fee (if any,Return of Certificate of Registry)

The fee for a Closed Transcript of Registry is US$150.00, a copy of the same can be send electronically for an additional fee of US$25.00.

Registrar of Shipping

Virgin Island Shipping Registry

Ritter House - 1st floor Wickham's Cay II - Road Town

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

+ 1 284 468 9646

VIShipping@bvimaritime.vg

• Since 1 March 2018, pleasure craft of less than 20 GT can no longer be registered in the Register of Shipping.
• If your ship is under 20 GT and was already registered in the Register of Shipping before 1 March 2018, the ship will be deleted from the register when all mortgages and other interests in the ship have been removed.

• Declaration of Danish owner's registration of ship under foreign flag:

https://virk.dk/myndigheder/stat/SFS/selvbetjening/Erklaering_om_dansk_ejers_registrering_af_skib_under_fremmed_flag-0/

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The Danish Maritime Authority

Caspar Brands Plads 9

4220 Korsør

Denmark

+45 72 19 60 00 (9-16)

sfs@dma.dk

 Document authorizing Danish citizens to perate under the Danish flag and to fly the flag on their vessels: 

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1. Original boat registration certificate (MS 36)
2. In case of loss of the original certificate of registration of the boat, a police certificate must be submitted for the owner to report the loss or a sworn statement
3. Small boat deletion request form ( MS 21 )

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MS 21 - APPLICATION FOR DELETION OF A SMALL VESSEL

Permanent Secretary Deputy Ministry of Shipping Postal Address:

P.O. Box 56193,

3305 Limassol,

Cyprus

You will need to provide the following:

• A statutory declaration stating the extent of your interest in the ship and the date in which that interest was acquired
• The Bill of Sale by which the ship was acquired.
• Form 202 - Application for closure of registration for a ship

1. Original completed form 202
2. Original registration certificate
3. Statutory declaration
4. Bill of sale

Application for closure of registration for a ship- 202

The Registrar of Ships

Shipping Registration Office

PO Box 255
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Courier address:
Shipping Registration Office
Level 2, 28 Gordon Street
Coffs Harbour NSW,2450 Australia

+61 (2) 6279 5925

Owners of a yacht can request its deletion from the register in accordance with Article 13 paragraph 1 of the Yacht Ordinance, after which they return the flag certificate.

To proceed with the cancellation, it is necessary to download the specific PDF document, which must be attached to the flag certificate and sent to the following address:

Swiss Maritime Navigation Office (USNM)
Elisabethenstrasse 33
casella postale
CH-4010 Basel

SWITZERLAND

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FDFA Swiss Maritime Navigation Office - USNM
Elisabethenstrasse 33
casella postale
CH-4010 Basel

SWITZERLAND

The following documents are required when deregistering a boat:

1. Form no. 17: application for boat deregistration
2. Explanation of deregistration.
3. Possible nationality certificate, if issued.

Deregistration can be made by a new, non-registered, owner or by the person who is registered as the owner in the ship register.

Form no. 17

Transportstyrelsen Sjöfartsregistret

Box 502 601 07

Norrköping

SWEDEN

• The ship's ticket (Судовой билет)
• A written statement on the need for deregistration
• Owner's ID document

Submit an electronic application and schedule an inspection visit online at the State Inspectorate for Information Technologies website. 

Electronic register for deleting a yacht:

https://www.gosuslugi.ru/42108

info@mchs.gov.ru

Teatralni Prospekt 3

Moscow 109012

RUSSIA

+7 (495) 983-79-01

Please use the form. Notification for deletion, KR-0009.
To be signed with binding signature by
registered owner or owner's Norwegian Representative.
Send a signed copy to post@nis-nor.no
The original is not to be forwarded afterwards.

If the vessel is more than 50 years old and being sold abroad
Export license from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
The owner himself must contact the ministry.
Once obtained, the license is to be sent to the
Department of Ship Registration in original.

Deletion fee:
Free of charge

Notification for deletion, KR-0009

All documents related to the registration process must be sent directly to the

Department of Ship Registration
The Norwegian Maritime Authority, Department of Ship Registration
P.O.Box 73 Nygårdstangen
N-5838 BERGEN

Phone: (+ 47) 55 54 12 50
post@nis-nor.no

• A certified copy of declaration of export from the customs authority is required if the yacht is exported from the European Economic area.
• If a boat is issued a certificate from the relevant port authority the fee is set at 20 euros
• Deregistration is done electronically at the Register of Ships website

Electronic register for deleting a yacht:

https://www.gov.gr/arxes/anexartete-arkhe-demosion-esodon-aade/anexartete-arkhe-demosion-esodon-aade/metroo-ploion

Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE)

AADE

Car. Serbias 10

101 84 Athens

GREECE

+30 210 337 5000

 Required document:

• Completed application by the owner. Application must be made as a notarial act
• Written consent of ship’s mortgagees, if anyo riginals of Registration certificates issued by LSR
• Copy of Bill of Sale (in case of sale) cancelation of ships Call-sign issued by Electronic Communication Office

A deletion certificate is issued s soon as the registered mortgages and other encumbrances are discharged and all matters pending with the Registry, including financial obligations, are settled.

Issue of Certificate of Deletion: 70  (EUR)

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Application download:

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Inspector of Registry of Ships

Svetlana Salaja

+371 67 06 21 65

kr@lja.lv

 https://www.traficom.fi/en/services/deregistration-watercraft-registration-service-point

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