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Started 2 years ago by johnsee
Latest reply from niels

johnsee
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Who, where, what, when, why you are!

Introduce yourself here!

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Steve Ellwood
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Who?- Steve Ellwood
Where? - Whitley Bay which is on the North East Coast of England - two miles away from the River Tyne - I'm from Geordie Land (Newcastle upon Tyne)
What? - 51 years old, married to Joan with one son (19) Scott - I work for HM Revenue and Customs.
When? - strange question and not sure how to respond ;-)
Why? - Always happy to share my love of shipping photography with others.

Regads

Steve Ellwood

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Zappa
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Who?-Geert van Kesteren-"Zappa"
Where?-Vlissingen(Flushing)-The Netherlands-situated Right Bank of River Scheldt-Island of "Walcheren". Living 50 yards from the Sardijngeulchannel(= Northern entrance) to Flushing Roads- coming from Steenbank Pilotstation.
What?=66 years-married to Henny-two children- son "Zappa" died -
Retired Dutch Riverpilot between Flushing and Antwerp v.v.
best regards
Geert van Kesteren(Zappa)

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Steve Ellwood
Member

Hi Zappa

Do you get out of bed to take your photgraphs on the Flushing Roads <G>

Regards

Steve Ellwood

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Kemblaships
Member

Hi I am Peter Karberg

I live in a town called Albion Park on the New South Wales south coast in Australia. Port Kembla is approximately 20 kilometres north. Sydney is about 100 kilometres north. I work at the steelworks that is at the port as a protective service officer (security, ambulance, fire) which provides me with excellent opportunities to pursue my passion for ship photography. (I also go out of work time). I am 48 years old & married to Lesley. We have 2 grown up kids. Ships have been a passion of mine for much of my life.

Regards

Peter

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Steve Ellwood
Member

Hi Peter

Good to hear from another member - must be good to have such ready access to ship photographt whilst at work ;-)

Regards

Steve Ellwood

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Mattmar
Site Admin

Welcome Peter and we look forward to seeing some photographs from Kembla.

Richard

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Kemblaships
Member

Hi Guys

It helps while working but I prefer to go when off work. I can access many more view points particularly with lighting as the works is on the south side of the harbour the sun becomes a nuisance particularly in Winter. Uploaded some pics last night till the wee hours. The site is very easy to negotiate. Credit to the Site Admin in researching all the ships data already on the site. Must have been very time consuming. Also Richard your old website was one of my first stops when researching my Dad's ships. You have quite a few pics from that era.

Best Regards

Peter

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scottik38
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Hi, my name is Scott, i am 46yo living and working in Melbourne, Australia. I am the Ship Liaison Officer at the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre in Melbourne. For those who do not know what the Stella Maris does, we help assist with crew, mainly foreign, who work on the many vessels that come into Melbourne each day. We are a charity organisation providing free transport, internet, telephones, as well as pastoral assistance. My job is looking after the material type of things, shop, bar, internet, transport, etc. Even though I deal with the crew of the ships rather than the ships themselves, I maintain a database of all ships that come into Melbourne, the type of crew they carry, any problems or needs by members of those crew, the route they travel between ports etc. Have also now started to collect data on the ship itself. Hence my need for fotos of the vessels to attact to my database.

Ship visiting is also an important role and I often get to visit the ships but upgraded security does not allow me to take photos o the ships whilts they are in port.

Our website, if anyone is interested, is
http://www.stellamaris.org.au/welcomeship.html

I thank everyone of you for your effort with this website and making available the information that you do. Any new info I get from visiting the ships will also be gladly added to your site.

Best regards,

Scott Cook

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Steve Ellwood
Member

Hi Scott

Welcome onboard ;-)

Regards

Steve Ellwood

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cody
Member

Hi, I'm Cody, i am a grade 9 student in Devonport Tasmania, hopefully when I leave school I am going to try and become an officer in the Royal Australian Navy.

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Steve Ellwood
Member

Hi Cody

Great choice for a career - hope you don't lose your interest in photographing and sharing photographs of ships if and when you join up ;-)

Regards

Steve Ellwood

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Dave Manley
Member

Hi Everyone,

Nice to find a site that has lots of the info that I like to look for. I always try to include the build date of ships when I photo them; this is not always easy to find.

Best wishes

Dave

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Mattmar
Site Admin

Dave,

Welcome aboard. Thanks for some great photos already.

Richard.

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Dave Manley
Member

Thanks for the welcome Richard; I will upload loads of photo's when I have finished collating them all.

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SD7
Member

G'day all! My name is Steve Thomas. I live near Ipswich and Felixstowe and so get to see quite a variety of ships that call at these ports or pass by.

Shipping has been a passion for me since I was a boy. I guess it started when I was taken to see HMS Bermuda by my uncle, who served in her during the war, as she was being scrapped at Briton Ferry.

I've worked for Lloyd's Register updating the Register of Ships, and as a journalist working for Seatrade, Lloyd's List, Shipping World, and MER to name but a few. This is a great job for a ship enthusiast as you get flown all around the world and you just have to go to shipyards, ports and waterways to do the research you need! You also get to meet some great people and hear some fascinating stories along the way.

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Mike Costello
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Who - Mike Costello
Where - Burnham on Sea, England
What 1 - recently retired thereby allowing me more time to do shipping research. I have a fair size database of my own and concentrate on ships, their builders, dates, renamings and other statistical data, however I don't hold crew lists etc.
What 2 - I am currently trying to identify as many Japanese merchant ships as possible - from 1875 to the present day. I can get most detail from Lloyds Registers and the Miramar ship index (and now this site) but images are harder to come by all the way over here in UK. As you can appreciate, an image is all important to ensure that the ship you are adding to your database is actually correct and not another with the same name.

If any member wants help with a vessels identity, or more likely History, I will try to help if you can provide some basic information: Name, Year built, builder, company etc. Obviously not all the info may be available but every little helps; especially if there is a photo. If you send me a message then I will try to reply with a potted history, including name changes, signal codes, official numbers etc., if I have them.

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Al Kurtass
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Who: My name is Muthanna Al Kurtass
where: Jubail Industrial City - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
what: Consultant in Ports and Maritime affairs
when: Since my retirement in 2003,from the Saudi Sea Ports Aurthority where I was occupying the post of Port's Director General, I established the "Al Nitak for Maritime Studies" consultancy house
why you are: When i was retired at the age of 58 I felt not like going to sit down and do nothing , I have over the years worked with so many consultants and liked this profession very much , it gives me allot of self satisfaction occupies my time and gives me some extra income, that’s why, if you like to get in touch my email address is muthanna@alnitak.org .

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flotilla-australia
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Who: I am John E Hoskin
Where: Currently Wellington Point Queensland ex Melbourne Victoria
What: Work in the boat industry at Brisbane. Am administrator of Flotilla-Australia, an online website of all (getting there) Australian owned shipping lines, including individual owners dating back to 1842. see www.flotilla-australia.com has something for all globally and be amazed at how many ships are involved. The modern era is very much shippingdatabase where I am glad to be a member.
When: I served aboard the Lighthouse tenders/vessels Cape Don, Cape Pillar and Cape Moreton 1979-81 maintaining the lights around Australia. Since 1966 have a passion for ships as a 10 yo sneaking aboard vessels at Port Melbourne and collecting ship postcards. Am now a young grand father and consider myself a maritime researcher.

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CHIEFENG
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Who : Steinar Norheim
Where : Siljan, Norway.
What : Chief Engineer at sea. Have served at sea appr. 40 years, still sailing.

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mariner42
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Who: David Rothwell
Where: Blaxland NSW Australia
What: Presently retired. Sailed as Radio Officer (Sparks) with John Burkes - ANL - McIlwraith McEacharn (all Australian Coastal) - New Zealand Shipping - Federal Steam
during 60s + 70s. Worked ashore since.
Now reliving my past through collection of 1/1250 scale model ships. I have 123 and counting. Also keeping up my morse through amateur radio operations.
I am presently researching vessels I sailed aboard and finding difficulty with Kuranda/John Burke Line + mt Suvarnabhumi on which I sailed on her deliver voyage to Bankok in 1970. Can anyone help?

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jtaship
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Who: Jesper T Andersen, Age: 31
Where: Fredericia - Denmark
What: Starts taking ship photo back in 1994, after sailing between Frederikshavn and Gothenburg, the ferry Stena Jutlandia was very nice and i got my first photos with a one time use camera.
Today i take photos every day, and have my own website. Like to be in forums about ships and meet other people. Works as repairman and welder in heavy industries.

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Hannes
Member

Who:Hannes van Rijn.Age 65
Where:Delft The Netherlands
What:recently retired
I like to take Photo's from ships,especially around the Maasvlakte-Rotterdam
Rgds:Hannes.

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niels
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Who: Niels Eyde Hansen, Age:68
Where: Numansdorp - The Netherlands
What: Retired for some years now. I am Danish, but I have lived in The Netherlands since 1978,where I have been working as a shipchandler representative for 23 years.
Before I went ashore I was sailing Deep-Sea from 1957 until I stumpled over a woman (since many years, my wife)in Rotterdam in 1976.
I am not a shipphotographer, I am just placing Photographs and data of the ships on-board which I have worked .

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niels
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I forgot to mention my websites: http://www.eyde.nl which is about Sailing Ships and http://www.eyde.nl/homepage about my years at sea.

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