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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Enlarging full screen photos

« on: January 05, 2023, 07:30:11 PM »

Many thanks for your replies.
None of the bottom three arrows seem to work,only the top right arrow.
To lower the image can use the white bar.
Left to right or right to left have to drag arrow just beyond photo image into the margin to get movement.
Is this just me or does anyone else have this problem ? !!

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Enlarging full screen photos

« on: January 04, 2023, 09:33:37 PM »

Thanks for the reply Pieter.
Am doing what you say,but it no longer works.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Enlarging full screen photos

« on: January 04, 2023, 07:48:50 PM »

The arrows work ok for up and down vertical viewing,but cannot seem to be able to scan the photo from left to right or right to left ?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Soon - New website design

« on: April 06, 2022, 10:08:29 AM »

I do wish there could be far more "Comments" shown,as was the case previously.
Always interesting.

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Shipping News and information / Re: P&O Ferries halts sailings before

« on: March 22, 2022, 05:14:47 PM »

Assume the staff affected are stewards ,stewardesses .Captains ,deck officers,engineers ,deck crew ,chefs,presumably carrying on.
Is this the case?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Ships' Lifeboats and Tenders

« on: November 12, 2021, 08:13:28 PM »

Re-the earlier comment lifeboats are not ships,none of these playthings called yachts are ships either !

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Ships that have no photo in database

« on: June 15, 2020, 03:22:22 PM »

What about all the "yachts" ?

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Trip reports / Re: Your worst memory when you were trying to spot or take pictures of the ships?

« on: May 06, 2020, 05:04:48 PM »

A crowded Gravesend Promenade around 1950,around high tide,typical Thames procession of ships up & down."Hermes" appeared built 1881,iron hull,1317 GT with timber cargo.
Always great to see old ships,but couldn't get much older than that! Probably best memory.
Soon after badly bitten by a dog that jumped out from behind someones deck chair.I suppose on balance really a best memory though !!

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Shipping News and information / Re: Bad weather

« on: February 16, 2020, 08:36:54 AM »

Also in the English Channel interesting to compare the speeds of ships battling against the wind with those with the wind astern.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ships-favourite names,not the ships,but the names,for any reason !

« on: December 26, 2019, 04:00:00 PM »

Titan Uranus -remember being in the newspapers,with picture, sometime ago,saying the name had to be changed due to constant sniggering,jokes in radio communications !!

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Shipping News and information / Re: CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIPS COLLIDE

« on: December 23, 2019, 08:30:36 AM »

Is either ship moored or anchored?
Would a pilot have been on board?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Motor yachts,so many now being posted.

« on: August 07, 2019, 07:47:09 PM »

So many posts of these millionairs playthings ,just me but cannot summon up any interest in these at all.
To me real interest is in commercial ships,including commercial boats and craft.
Appreciate of interest to many,just my gripe !!

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Trip reports / Re: History Afloat: Coasting voyage up the Thames aboard Mark Prior.

« on: July 09, 2019, 08:10:01 PM »

Thanks Chris.
Excellent, very interesting film.How things have changed.
Thanks for posting it.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Scrubbers - an anti view

« on: June 26, 2019, 07:35:30 PM »

Visual aspect of scrubbers - to us shipspotters I suppose an environmental eyesore !

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Help and Advice / Re: Help locating and identifying a ship!

« on: June 15, 2019, 04:53:45 PM »

Any more news?