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Help and Advice / Re: Miramar Subscriptions

« on: Yesterday at 01:31:45 PM »

Hi Bob, Cant see it being updated somehow, may be I should buy a disc, for historical info. and cut my losses.    Its hard enough keeping Ocean Fleets updated (New ed. due this year) so to keep Miramar updated would take several prople fulltime.

Allan

Miramar has decided not to update ist files since the passing of Captain Rodger Haworth. This has been widely published and what you pay for now is to have access to the frozen files of mid 2022. By buying the disc, which seems to be having gestation time, you can close your subscription.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New category

« on: May 26, 2024, 05:35:21 PM »

we would then need an artist as adminsitrator, not a photographer...

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Help and Advice / Re: Miramar Subscriptions

« on: May 26, 2024, 09:23:11 AM »

Hi Peter

I ordered a disc last year, still haven't received it, but I have heard of people who did receive one. It seems to be a matter of patience. Therefore I renewed my subscription until May 2025, just to keep the cash-flow going for them.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: The "like" button question

« on: May 26, 2024, 09:20:59 AM »

It is in the planning, IT though has been given less time to devote to Shipspotting.

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Help and Advice / Re: I can't add photos.

« on: May 23, 2024, 05:29:09 PM »

Hi,

Did you actually see that your photo was ready for uploading, so before you pressed "send"?

Cheers

Pieter

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Site related news, functions and modules / R.I.P. ADRIAN FORD

« on: May 22, 2024, 07:27:20 PM »

Dear Users

It is my sad duty to announce the passing of Adrian Ford, our Vice-Webmaster. He died this morning in hospital in Kings Lynn after a short illness. Adrian joined the web site in September 2005, and was therefore one of our oldest members. Later he became an Admin, involved in the not always enviable task of dealing with the deletion process, which he carried with a great amount of dedication and care. In his later years as Vice-Webmaster he was of great help in further structuring the deletion process. He will be greatly missed.

Our thoughts are with his family.

 

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Maritime Research and History / Help wanted: Vessels passing though the St. Lawrence Seaway

« on: May 02, 2024, 06:32:34 AM »

Our member Rene Beauchamp is trying to collect at least one photograph of all merchant ships that passed the St. Lawrence Seaway since its opening in 1959. While this may sound like a herculean task, a stage has been reached where the number of ships missing is down to manageable proportions.

A list of missing ships is shown here

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Maritime Research and History / Re: Older Dutch inland vessels

« on: April 27, 2024, 06:07:06 PM »

Here is something that possibly explains everything but Dr. Google will be having a hard nut to crack.

https://www.ssrp.nl/stamboek/scheepsregistratie

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: SITE PROBLEM ?

« on: April 01, 2024, 02:20:53 PM »

Hi all,

IT has solved the problem. The discs of the server were filled up to capacity, and new space has been created. It proves that we upload lots of photos, and with a high resolution too.

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Maritime Research and History / Re: Ship CANTIKA PRATAMA 03?

« on: March 26, 2024, 09:54:51 AM »

Interesting, anybody with an answer? Probably one of those ships of which the continued existence is in doubt, but was still more or less active, at least active enough for the owner to apply an unnotice name change.

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Maritime Research and History / Re: Karadeniz Holding o Karpowership

« on: March 24, 2024, 07:59:01 AM »

Hi Mafioso,

Thanks for this, this is how this board was intended.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: SITE PROBLEM ?

« on: March 24, 2024, 07:54:29 AM »

Hi Victor,

This came about because the site duplicated (erroneously) some photos. It is not that you uploaded the shot twice. The reason for the double posting is being investigated.

Pieter

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Help me starting with ship spotting

« on: February 21, 2024, 12:14:24 PM »

Hi,

Depending on where you are, and what the distance from the ships will be, I think that a range coverage of say 25-30mm to 250-300mm would be enough. I found two Fuji lenses that could do the job to a certain extent
1. Fuji XC 50-230 (4.5-6.7)
2. Fuji XF 55-200 (3.5-4.

The lighting for the second lens is much better, especially at long distance, but the range is smaller.
Try to find second hand ones or ask your supplier whether you can rent one for experimenting.

Fow other lenses, check here (X-mount)

https://fujifilm-x.com/global/products/lenses/

For free traffic sites, you can use shipXplorer, which is linked to Shipspotting.com
https://www.shipxplorer.com/

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Shipping News and information / MOVED: Some ships to identify

« on: February 10, 2024, 04:49:14 PM »

This topic has been moved to Maritime Research and History.

https://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php?topic=17850.0

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Shipping News and information / Re: Increase of draft and DWT on container ships

« on: February 08, 2024, 10:33:25 AM »

Just some remarks here:

The DWT increase of containerships is also related to the number of loaded containers that may/can be carried, (no need to increase TEU capacity, just carry more cargo in the containers,  carrying empties is not a big earning model) In the past when Maersk announced that the Lindo yard was about to produce a new series of contanerships, they were very secretive about the actual DWT capacity, which most of the time not became public until the delivery of the first ship of the new series.