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Help and Advice / Fram on Marine Traffic advice sought

« on: April 20, 2020, 03:03:51 PM »

I have been watching the Hurtigruten fleet, on Marine Traffic, lately and noticed Fram arrived in Bergen a couple of days ago. Since then the Marine Traffic site seems to show her having left and returned on a number of occasions and when selecting "Past Track" there are a series of vectors shown , mainly, radiating outwards from Bergen. I have not noted this method of displaying past track before, normally it is what you may expect, a line showing the vessels movement across the surface of the sea with periodic marking points that show time, date and speed.
I was surprised to see all the departures and arrivals of a ship having been so long from her home port and having only returned from the South Atlantic to her home port.
If selecting "Vessel Details" and going down the page there is a "Vessel Timeline" graphic which shows the comings and goings in a different format and a quick comparison of both these ways of showing vessels movement do not seem to agree with each other.
Any advice from more experienced folk would be appreciated.

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Help and Advice / Copyright

« on: June 01, 2012, 02:04:06 PM »

I have just visited www.nsri.org.za to see an article from a link on Vessel Tracker and was surprised to see what appears to be a photo taken by me and posted on Shipspotting.com on 30 October 2010. I have asked nsri for an explanation.

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Shipping News and information / Margaret Hill

« on: January 25, 2011, 01:50:27 PM »

Does anybody know for certain the fate of the Margaret Hill?
I saw on AIS that she was heading east in the Mediteranean on 17th December 2009 and there was talk of her going to Dubai for conversion into a re-liquification or storage vessel.  I kept my eye on AIS around Dubai for a while with no news but I did hear from some source that she became SS Chill and was possibly going to India for demolition. Any definate news would be welcome.