The ShipWatcher Blog

Friday, July 31, 2009

New Instant Slideshows!

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I’ve upgraded ShipWatcher so you can view slideshows of recent images for any ship.


If you have a look under each image, you’ll see a new green arrow that looks like this:


The new

The new "Play Slideshow" but for all ships


Click on that arrow, and you’ll see slideshow of recent images from the database.


ShipWatcher keeps a photo archive of interesting photos from each webcam, but it doesn’t record ALL photos.  So if some of the photos you see in the slideshow are older than you expect, that’s because it’s been a while since ShipWatcher automatically captured any photos from it.  The best way to make sure there are more photos in the archive is to click on the Camera button () and manually take some photos.


You can run slideshows for several ships at once, but the more ships you select, the longer it will take to display a new picture.


While the SlideShow is running, the green arrow will change to a “Stop” button that looks like this:


Click on the Stop button to stop the SlideShow.  The most recent image from the camera will then be displayed.


It took me a while to work out how to do this, so if you use it, please let me know.  If I know that people are using some of these new things, I’ll add more fun toys!


Why don’t you try it out now?


Monday, July 27, 2009

New Webcams: Crystal Serenity / Crystal Symphony

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Thanks to Robert Heuman for suggesting we add ships from Crystal Cruises.


Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony are now available on ShipWatcher. They have three webcams each: forward, port and starboard.


Friday, July 17, 2009

We've Moved!

This blog has moved!

The new address is


Please update your browser and RSS reader to the new links. All of our existing articles have moved too.

I'm now using WordPress as my blogging platform, and really like it.

If you've got any comments or suggestions, please let us know.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Suomen Joutsen

A Postcrossing postcard from Anne in Finland.

The three masted, full rigged "Suomen Joutsen" was built in 1902. She has a steel hull and plied the trade routes between ports in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Since this was before the days of the Panama Canal, this means she frequently passed through the treacherous waters of Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America.

In 1930, the Finnish Navy purchased this beautiful ship for use as a Training Vessel.

From the mid 1950's she was a stationery seamen's training vessel, but in 1991 she was purchased by the city of Turku and operates as a museum.

What a beautiful grand lady of the sea. And what a gorgeous painting by Håkan Sjöström.

Thanks Anne. You made my day!