Oh, I see it's being used for storing Ukrainian refugees

A worthy cause I'm sure. But not so glamorous.

I saw three of them.

And what was in those ships all three?

There was an old man with a beard at the wheel, a young man dying on a cross rigged up on the deck, and a woman in tears looking out over the water. And the very same thing on the next ship, and the next.

Worst Christmas morning ever.

Is that the Flying Dutchman?

Or the version with Ava Gardner in it?

Considering everything currently going on in the Red Sea near Yemen there's an awful lot of boats sailing through to the Suez Canal.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:36.0/centery:20.3/zoom:4

On that map there's a minus button to zoom out but I can't find a plus button to zoom back in.

It seems the plus and minus keys on my laptop's keyboard can make it zoom in and out. I did not know they could do that.

They do it for Google Maps too. I've just learnt something after a couple of decades of using these things.

They probably did the same for the maps on my 1997 Encarta CD ROM encyclopaedia and I never knew it.

Loads of oil tankers in the Red Sea.

Butterfield wrote:

Considering everything currently going on in the Red Sea near Yemen there's an awful lot of boats sailing through to the Suez Canal.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:36.0/centery:20.3/zoom:4

I notice all the UK ones are called GB, even the little tugs in Northern Island ports.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6875006/zoom:16

This is currently sailing past St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6309287/zoom:12

This website doesn't cover enough of the Midlands.

Though there is an unidentified "pleasure craft" just to the south of Worcester.

Butterfield wrote:

This is currently sailing past St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:6309287/zoom:12

I wonder if there's one just like it going past Mont St Michel, as well?

Wait till they force Long Ships Narrowboats to have tracking.

Butterfield wrote:

They probably did the same for the maps on my 1997 Encarta CD ROM encyclopaedia and I never knew it.

The numpad + and - for zooming used to work reliably across a range of applications. But I find they so often don't work nowadays, that I don't bother to try.

I literally never used the number pad on my old PC's keyboard that I used from 1998 to 2005!