Is there an online database of small ships names?

[changeman]

How can I find out if a small ships name is already in use? Is there an online database I can search?

 

[Malcb]

You could try the MARS database at
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/mars/index.asp
It gives all ships that have radios installed. Click on 'Particulars of Ships Stations'. At least it will be a start.

 

[MIKE_MCKIE]

You can try the below site, but you need to type in a name & then query to see if it is in use. Try my boat name "HOODWINK", there are 3 of, or containing that name.

http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh#start

These are just registered boat names, they do not take into account the many thousands of boats that are not registered with anyone!

Best of uck.

 

[paulrae]

Great post. I've spent the last hour seeing which name is most popular (on malcb's link). Serendipity yields over 100 hits, Dream (and its derivatives) 200. Anyone beat 200?
(apologies to those with the lack of imagination to come up with anything even vaguely original)

 

[chinita]

Carpe Diem (!) without derivatives numbers 200. However, I am delighted to say that there is only one Chinita!

 

[TheBoatman]

I think you'll find that as soon as the datebase goes up 200 it asks you to narrow the search
After 2 tries I lit on "Mary" and got a 200.

BTW try putting in this call sign (no guesses as to which boat it applies to)

GBQM

NOTE no number after the letters /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[gandy]

It failed to find one boat we've viewed for sale, Part One reg as well. I assume his radio licence wasn't renewed while the boat was laid up.

Tony S

 

[kunyang]

http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mars/ship_search.sh

 

[duncan]

more like - 'what radio licence.....'

they didn't previously pull vessels off at all, and only recently started for those that hadn't been renewed for a long time.........

Others have comented that it can now take a little time for vessels to be entered onto the database - longer than in Mike Martin's day!- but once on they are slow to leave.

 

[gandy]

Just checked again, the boat we have just bought had a radio licence which expired in 2004, not renewed. (Radio is unserviceable). The boat doesn't appear in the database.

Tony S

 

[duncan]

I would suggest that they took the recent opportunity offered to positively confirm that they didn't want to retain their call sign.

Do you have the call sign and have you tried a search on that?

Finally is it an obsure boat name - a friend has his boat called Mr Blue Sky - if you don't enter it exactly as the RL peps have it won't find it!

Just to follow up on that last comment - I went to check which way was right adn wrong on Mister Bluesky..........can't find it!!! I know it was there 'cos I had no end of trouble last time and eventually found it but I tried every combination I could think of this time! Will get the MMSI over the weekend and work back......... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif