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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Photos
« on: April 03, 2022, 05:50:02 PM »
"Drag and drop" is working fine for me when uploading (using Chrome), however when I click on the "...5 photos..." box and select a photo instead it does not upload.

BRGDS / foggy


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Digital shoes?

A shoebox full of old memory cards and USB-drives perhaps. ;-)

But we

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The "new locations" you are seeing on the "Photos" page are not actually new additions, they are locations on the existing list which have not been selected before.

Just an observation, it seems that sometimes pre-existing locations come up as "new locations" in the list - today I notice that Tampa, USA is at the top of the new locations list although the first photo from there was uploaded to the site in 2009... a couple of months ago I noticed the same with Liepaja, Latvia.

I sincerely hope that we find a tenacious IT tech soon, who can solve the new locations issue...

BRGDS / foggy

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Hello all,

Here are my suggestions/hopes for improvement:

1) As someone who  don

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Help and Advice / Re: Japanese Ship Names
« on: September 16, 2019, 10:35:12 AM »
There is a new batch of unidentified Japanese vessels in Mystery Ships by "foggy".  Hope someone can help with IDs (at least one has visible Japanese Official Number identified)

Thank you @davidships, much appreciated. Is there any public source/database with japanese ship register/registry numbers available online?

BRGDS / foggy

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Help and Advice / Re: Vessels discharging water
« on: April 03, 2015, 11:28:15 AM »
Hi,

The fire main is also commonly used for cooling of the mooring winch hydraulics, and the the hydrant for anchorwash is usually kept open to get a flow through the hydraulics cooler.

BRGDS / foggy

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Shipping News and information / Re: VLCC Eliza 9387578
« on: December 16, 2011, 10:29:42 AM »
According to gCaptain, the Eliza will load North Sea crude around Christmas and then go to Korea.

http://gcaptain.com/majors-books-supertankers-ship/?35475

BRGDS / foggy

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I have to agree with Paul, if a vessel has an IMO number, why leave that out? Not only RFA vessels have IMO numbers, a lot of naval auxiliaries around the world are ex civilian vessels (especially US Military Sealift Command vessels, but there are a lot of other examples) and it is always intresting to track the career of such vessels, something that would be very difficult if IMO numbers were deleted. Why not keep both pennant and IMO?

BRGDS / foggy

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Shipping News and information / Re: Oldest Seagoing Ships In Service
« on: November 18, 2011, 01:24:48 PM »
The coaster Sydfart is a strong contender for oldest ship in commercial service. Built as a steamer in 1879, re-engied to diesel and rebuilt in 1950's. She is still active and trading Baltic Sea ports, usually with grain.

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=5262768

BRGDS / foggy

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Trip reports / Re: A strange ship in Rhodes greece +/- 1955
« on: November 14, 2011, 08:19:08 PM »
It's most probably the USCG Courier, transmitter ship for Voice Of America. Indeed an ex C1-M type.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uscgc_courier

http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/courier_wagr410_photos.asp

BRGDS / foggy

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Henrik,

Thank you for a quick and explanatory reply. I suspected it was linked in some way to the AIS project...  ;)

If I may suggest a reliable source, then most ports around the world are listed in Lloyds Maritime Atlas with position data. Why not simply enter this information (or from a similar source) into the system, instead of sporadic updates whenever a new photo is uploaded or you get a new AIS entry?

BRGDS / foggy

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Help and Advice / Photo location - How to suggest additions / updates?
« on: October 20, 2011, 12:25:31 PM »
Hi,

Having spent quite a lot of time adding the photo location to my "back catolouge" on this site, I noticed that a lot of ports are missing in the photo location database, especially ports in the Caribbean/Latin America area and ports in the USEC/New York area. I also miss some ports in Philippines and South East Asia, as well as some ports in Sweden and Scandinavia. I'm sure there are others.

1. What database/list of ports do you use?
2. How can this database list of ports be updated, and how can we users suggest ports to be added?


BRGDS / foggy

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Help and Advice / Re: Copyright issue - automatic watermark
« on: January 09, 2010, 11:04:53 PM »
I don't see the problem. If you don't want people to download your photos - don't upload them.

Personally I upload my photos here so that as many people as possible can view them. And as far as the media is concerned, I get about one or two emails a month from people (including large news agencies) that ask permission to use my photos, and I always agree as long as my name and shipsotting.com is quoted as the source.

Please don't start with idiot ideas such as watermarking or barring non-members from viewing (and thus downloading) photos. If anything this will certainly decrease traffic to this site, something I'm sure the new siteowners are NOT intrested in...

I have high hopes for the future of this site, but in the recent past it has been far too litte shipspotting and far too much dot.com about shipsotting.com, as Tony said - we are a community.

BRGDS / foggy

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ship Longevity?
« on: August 11, 2007, 01:43:59 AM »
Hi!

I can't help smiling when I read this... We are currently anchored off Visakhapatnam, India, and when I look around I don't see many ships that look to be newer than 15-20 years. If India goes ahead with this (which I think they won't, it's just politics) they won't have much trade. And forbidding FoC flagged ships as well... India already have some of the most stringent cabotage rules (outside USA) in the world and are obviously looking to further these in a non-realistic protectionist move, probably in the hope that all trade to/from India will be with Indian flagged ships. As I look around again I do see quite a few Indian flagged ships here, but the majority seems (as everywhere else in the world) to be FoC flagged. In conlusion, this seems to be a rather naive suggestion by some protectionist politician, who has taken hint from what's going on in the EU... :-x

Also it wouldn't suprise me if this is intended to, in some  slightly misdirected way, boost the Indian shipbuilding industry.

BRGDS / foggy

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