JUPITER (1955)

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JUPITER (5177559), Germany, 407gt,
completed Rendsburg 3-1955
83 JUPITER B - 86 REBEKKA - 87 EASTERN STAR I - SABRINA - 89 ALEXANDER (still listed in Equasis)

The JUPITER (407/55) slides into the lock at Goole on 14 June 1981

Ron

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See also: viewtopic.php?f=69&t=17708

R.

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Belated disposal data report: deleted 6.13 - existence in doubt

Ron

[northeast]

How long before you have checked as far a 'Z', Ron?
All good stuff.

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Hopefully, in two or three months, providing I don;t get suspended by Equasis for breaking their limit of 750 look-ups in a week!

You'll be able to check my progress through entries similar to this vessel.

Ron

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Hopefully, in two or three months, providing I don;t get suspended by Equasis for breaking their limit of 750 look-ups in a week! You'll be able to check my progress through entries similar to this vessel.

10 weeks from start to finish. Good going and I didn't trip up with Equasis for a change!

Some useless statistics. In almost 60 years of observing and photographing ships I have a database covering 15100 merchant ship sightings over that same period. I have a pretty steady average of 260 new sightings each year, 5 new ships on average each week. There have been considerable ups and downs over those years for various reasons. My highest annual total of new sightings was 575 in 1981 down to only 14 in 2004. With only 4 new sightings in my notebook for 2020, that lowest figure might be challenged if the lockdown doesn't end soon!

Having worked through my database, which covers 57100 ship names including all former and later names of those 15100 sightings, Equasis records 5639 of them as still extant. I would query that because there are a lot of older ships now showing as flag unknown, and which do not currently feature in Marinetraffic for instance. In the course of my check I seem to have found almost 350 renames, so not a particularly great number. I don't know how many have been scrapped, lost or deleted, but it is much lower that that for renamings. In passing I have notified Rodger at Miramar of 250 amendments/updates to his fantastic resource.

I've not tried to count how many changes I've reported affecting ships showing in NEM. However, I hope you find such reports all worthwhile. I think it is quite important to give full details of ships whenever possible in the interests of posterity and future researchers.

Ron

[northeast]

"I've not tried to count how many changes I've reported affecting ships showing in NEM. However, I hope you find such reports all worthwhile. I think it is quite important to give full details of ships whenever possible in the interests of posterity and future researchers."

Very welcome indeed, Ron, thanks for your initiative in posting changes and fuller details on NEM. I haven't had much chance to look at 'Marine News' in past 3 years so many of these changes would have been missed. Also useful for updating the UK shipbuilding sites. Our databases must coincide on the majority of ships especially from the 1960's. I have 24585 since somewhere around mid-1959, I guess working in the ports helped considerably but I did little in way of overseas sightings since after 2002. 13032 are listed as dead and 11553 as living though as you write, many in doubt!