Suggestions to ensure getting data on a specific
vessel of your choice include:
The vessel name may be
entered in upper or lower case.
The vessel name that is
entered must be identical to the
vessel name listed in our vessel data base. You could not retrieve data
for the vessel "MOONLIGHT III" if you entered the name as "MOONLIGHT 3".
The data retrieval
program will return documentation and
other information on up to 20 vessels based on entry of only a portion
of a vessel's name. For instance, if you enter the name "ANN" you could
retrieve data on vessels named ANN, ANNIE, MARYANN, BANNER, etc.
If more than 20 vessels
match the name you enter, then an
abbreviated listing (reporting the vessel name, year built, service,
hailing port, length, and documentation number) of up to 400 vessels
will be output to your monitor. Based on data in this listing, select
(click on) a vessel name (in hypertext) to get complete documentation
data for that vessel.
Enter the complete
vessel name whenever possible because
you are limited to retrieving abbreviated data on a maximum of 400
vessels per query. You probably could not get data for a craft named
"SEA ROVER X" if you entered only the name "SEA"because the vessel data
base has over 9,000 vessels with "SEA" in their name.