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Guides

Plain explainers on tracking ships and reading the map.

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  • How to track a shipFind a ship by name or number, read her card and page, and watch her move.

About these guides

These pages explain ship tracking in plain words, for someone who has not done it before. Each one says where Shiptrail hears ships and where it does not: its receivers stand on land, so the map follows ships near coasts and the open ocean is dark.

Positions are not for navigation. About says how the map works and where its data comes from.