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Help and Advice / Re: Singapore - Shipspotting locations

« on: April 30, 2013, 10:25:03 AM »

You used to be able to hire a bumboat by the hour to tour the anchorages take you wherever you want

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Deletions again

« on: April 25, 2013, 11:22:28 PM »

I fully concur with Mr Brunkman's idea of limiting to two the number of shots of a ship's passing. More than that is often deadly boring to the viewer and serves only the egoes of members playing the numbers (of posts) game. As our friend in Norway tells us: "Post quality, not quantity". Just my personal view!

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Shipping News and information / Re: OSTEND SPIRIT (EX PRIDE OF CALAIS) RETURNS TO TILBURY

« on: April 22, 2013, 04:25:35 PM »

The ramp-less, double-deck design of the Dover-Calais ferries renders them relatively unattractive to other operators (especially in the present economic climate) due to the need to convert them with shipboard loading ramps. Shipbreakers, of course, are not so choosy.

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Shipping News and information / Re: OSTEND SPIRIT (EX PRIDE OF CALAIS) RETURNS TO TILBURY

« on: April 18, 2013, 06:46:09 PM »

The rest of the TransEuropa Ferries Ramsgate-Ostend fleet lies idle in Ostend and the company's website has gone blank. Ostend Spirit was chartered from P&O with an option to purchase.

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Help and Advice / Re: A smokey question

« on: April 15, 2013, 06:45:17 PM »

Possibly an engine(fuel injection) malfunction but more likely a soot fire in an exhaust gas fired boiler. This ship was built as a sulphur carrier so would have a high cargo heating capability to keep the cargo liquid. While underway, most of that heat would be derived from the exhaust of the ship's main engine(s).

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Help and Advice / Re: Maersk ship color

« on: April 15, 2013, 12:43:49 PM »

Neither of these ships are owned by Maersk but are time-chartered to the Danish company by German owners. Unless the time charters are for exceptionally long periods it is unlikely that the ships will be repainted in Maersk blue.

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Shipping News and information / Re: 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic events

« on: April 13, 2013, 04:21:48 PM »

Ozzy: Please take Kelvin's advice and go make your petty political points somewhere else!

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Shipping News and information / Re: 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic events

« on: April 10, 2013, 05:45:46 PM »

Will the Deutsche Marine be sending a submarine?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: COPYRIGHT

« on: April 07, 2013, 04:12:52 PM »

As long as the MINIMUM allowed photo size/resolution on this site is equal to the MAXIMUM allowed by similar sites, it is inevitable that shipspotting.com, with its high-quality photos will be the milk-cow for photo thieves the world over!
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Help and Advice / Re: Proposed solution for problem of in correct Date Captured vs Date Added

« on: April 07, 2013, 03:56:59 PM »

Thanks to the computer world

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Shipping News and information / Re: NO MORE BACO-LINERS

« on: April 06, 2013, 08:52:04 PM »

The ships were 34 qnd 33 years old respectively. They had a good life even though for many years they operated an obsolete system.

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Shipping News and information / Re: HAV SHIPPING

« on: April 01, 2013, 10:19:19 AM »

They are involved with the carriage of spoil from the London Crossrail project to a reclamation/landfill site at Wallasea Island, Essex.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Website down?

« on: March 04, 2013, 06:35:46 PM »

Looks like some of us have been surprised to find that there is actually life outside shipspotting.com. Maybe we will be told eventually what happened.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Cranes & superstructure/bridge on starboard

« on: February 24, 2013, 12:33:19 PM »

Port-side mounted cranes would seriously obstruct the view from the bridge during normal, red-to-red passing manoeuvres in narrow fairways.

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Help and Advice / Re: WARSHIP PREFIX for CHINA and CHILE

« on: February 22, 2013, 02:00:13 AM »

The website referred to by the webmaster is no more authoritative than any other. It is riddled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. The adoption of this naval prefixing system was like walking into a minefield and would have been better avoided altogether by simply entering the ship's name (eg no HMS)and then perhaps providing a box to say in plain English (since that's the official language of the site) "Royal Navy", "US Navy" or whatever. The powers-that-are have made a rod for everyone's back with this one.