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Shipping News and information / Love Boat to be scrapped

« on: March 09, 2012, 06:19:59 AM »

According to the Wikipedia article on the former Princess Cruises ship the "Pacific Princess", currently named "Pacific", has been sold to Turkish interests for scrapping. An Italian news source was quoted. A Princess Cruises blog also acknowledges that their former fleet member's sailing days are over

Regards

Paul

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New identification for military vessels available

« on: December 04, 2011, 11:49:12 AM »

Hi Clyde,
I agree with you re. putting pennant numbers in the title. Now that pennant numbers are a separate data field, this is unnecessary, potentially confusing and likely to lead to the incorrect formatting of titles as has been highlighted

Regards

Paul

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New identification for military vessels available

« on: December 03, 2011, 07:53:05 PM »

Thanks Foggy, Kyle, for your back up- I feel quite strongly about this one. As well as losing the link to that vessel's prior or subsequent history and guises, the link to technical data and AIS ship tracking information is also lost. I do not see how having access to both these identifiers can be confusing for anyone- the site already displays and allows searches by additional identifiers such as MMSI, which to most people is meaningless- but hardly confusing. The addition of pennant number searches is a step forward and a good initiative, but why give with one hand and take away with another? They are not unique and their usefulness appears to be limited to European navies. For me, where an IMO number exists, because it is unique it should take precedence over pennant numbers- but we now have the ability to use both, so why administratively limit to one or the other?

Regards

Paul

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: New identification for military vessels available

« on: December 02, 2011, 07:30:44 PM »

Hi all,
In the UK, ships of the Royal Fleet Auxillary are civilian manned and have IMO numbers as well as pennant numbers. Is it possible that over zealous admins could please leave the IMO numbers intact when editing these naval auxiliaries? There is obviously provision for both IMO and pennant numbers, so why remove the IMO number when editing these photos to the new format? Two photos of mine of RFA Argus (A135, IMO 7822550) that I have found so far have had their IMO numbers deleted when I had originally entered that info.
Thanks

Paul

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Shipping News and information / Re: Terrible Photo

« on: June 16, 2011, 06:33:07 AM »

It's a pity the Daily Mail couldn't get the port right in the last photo- the harbour she was entering for the last time in 2005, with the Spitsand Fort in the background, was quite obviously Portsmouth and not Plymouth! No doubt looking a bit quiet these days with next to no Navy there...

Paul