[Scan-DC] ship

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US Navy (MIL) will NOT show up rotinely on AIS, typically only during a Harbor transit.   USNS (merchant marine) fleet will show tho

Bill in Miami on a Scan-Cation


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-----Original Message-----
From: "Thomas P. Clouse" <tom at clouse.com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:04:28 
To: Scan DC<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] ship

If it was a navy vessel, would it show up in the AIS?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:50 PM, David Jones <djoneses at verizon.net> wrote:

> According to the website the Viking is 182 meters long.  In the pictures is
> certainly doesn't look 600 feet long -- it might be 182 feet long.  If it
> is
> 182 m long, that is in fact one large, odd looking boat.
>
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:19 PM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] ship
>
>
>
> Looking at marinetraffic.com, seems to be a tug out of Yorktown VA called
> the Viking... sure looks big for a tug, tho, and strange... of course, the
> only thing I know about tugs is from reading _Little Toot_ fifty years ago!
>
> :)
>
> I've still never seen anything that large this close to the shore.
>
> (No interesting scanner activity here, by the way.)
>
> Oh well. We now return you to your regularly scheduled homes and places of
> business.
>
> DK
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