teesships wrote: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