International Copyright Laws

International Copyright law's prohibit the copying, re-distribution, re-transmission of any material featured on this website without the express consent of myself the site owner or my site contributors.

I as webmaster will not give permission for third party contributor articles or photographs to be reproduced elsewhere and will always direct any enquiries concerning such articles to the contributor concerned.

All photographs, graphics and trademarks featured on this website are copyrighted/registered to there relevant owners.

Photographs published on behalf of a contributor are done so in good faith. If you have found an image on our site that you believe to be infringing on your copyright please contact us immediately so the images can be removed from our servers and site backups.

The use of images from this website for your own personal collection is perfectly acceptable but they must not be reused for publication in any form of media (that includes YouTube!) without the express written consent (this can be email) of the copyright owners.

Failure to adhere to these laws may result in legal action being taken by us or against us.

All the images on this site taken by myself are of a reduced quality to improve download times. If you require high quality versions of the pictures featured on this website for publication or your own personal collection please do not hesitate to contact me.

I am afraid I can only provide my own high resolution photographs, those of my contributors are not available directly from me but I can provide them with your requests but I make no guarantee that the images will be provided.

Disclaimer & Advertisements

Material contained within this site is produced in good faith, though no responsibility whatsoever is accepted for the accuracy or legality of the material contained herein and responsibility cannot be accepted for any loss or legal proceedings arising from its usage.

This website is intended to illustrate the various vessels, past/present/future, which have a connection (however obscure) with Dover. This site is owned and operated by myself Ray Goodfellow with contributions from a number of sources.

We do endeavour to make the information on this site as accurate as possible, however no responsibility is accepted for errors and omissions made on this site.

This site is run by enthusiasts for people interested in the varied maritime scene here in the Port of Dover.

Some of our pages will contain advertising links to selected ferry operators. These links are provided as an additional service to our visitors to enable bookings to be made.

All trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners. The only official connection I have with any of the companies featured is as an affiliate business partner, as such therefore none of the companies have any control over this website, it's content and any of the views and opinions expressed here. 

We do not accept any responsibility of any external hyperlinks from this site to other sites, you visit these sites at your own risk. If you believe any of the links on this website to be inappropriate please contact us.

Forum Rules

Dover Ferry Photos Forum - Rules and Guidelines

Please find below the latest version of the `Dover Ferry Photos Forum Rules and Guidelines'. These rules have been set out to make the forums a better place for our members. I would just like to point out that we are not an authoritarian bunch, we are here to manage the forums for the benefit of ALL the members and not the FEW who wish to rock the boat.
 

Important Notes

Your membership of this forum is taken as an acceptance of the rules posted below. If you do not agree with these rules and you are already a member please contact a member of the Administration team and your account will be deactivated and deleted.

All views expressed on these forums remain that of the poster and not that of either the Administration or Moderation team. All members should be aware of possible legal implications of posting libellous material on the Internet. Please note that IP addresses are logged for all messages posted on this forum.

The Administration team has the final decision on all forum content and moderation decisions and there decision is final.

Introduction

Originally launched on another server in October 2006 the Dover Ferry Photos Forums were conceived as a community addition to the website Dover Ferry Photos. In May of 2009 the forums were brought in-house following the failure of the previous host.

Our forum consists of 15 individual message boards each covering a specific subject. The scope of coverage for our forum is primarily the Ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne, Ostend and Zeebrugge. We also offer a free talk and general maritime board for off topic discussions.

These forums are Administered by Ray Goodfellow and DoverT with the technical support of Paul Bilbrough. Your moderator team are Paul Cloke and Aqui_fan. They are here to help you should you experience any problems.

For a complete list of forum staff and contact details please click here.

Membership

To view and post on our forums we kindly ask that you register an account with us. Membership is open to all but subject to Administrator approval. Please note that the approval process could take up to 24 hours to be completed.

Please be aware that due to there association with spam registrations the following domains are banned from registering here; .biz, .org and .ru.

All details submitted during the registration process are encrypted within the forum system. Your details will only be used for the process of forum Administration and will never be shared with a third party.

When your account has been authorised by an Administrator you will receive an email confirming that you now have access to the boards. You will need the user-name and password details that you submitted during the registration process (these should have been sent to you in a previous email).

In an effort to prevent spam appearing on the system your first 5 posts will be set to moderator approval. This means your messages will not appear on the forum until they have been checked by a member of the moderation team. Once you have posted 5 messages this restriction will be lifted and you will be able to post normally.

The moderated message list, known as the `moderator queue' is a tool used by the moderator team to manage those who may have breached forum rules in the past and to those who post outside of the guidelines set out in this document. Any member placed on this list will be unable to post messages directly to the boards until they have been approved by a member of the moderator team. In the event that a message is disapproved a reason will be forwarded to the member in question via a member of the moderator team. The Moderator Queue was introduced to help maintain the general standard of the forums and to prevent some of the idol `chit chat' that has taken over some threads recently. Please note members may be placed in the `moderator queue' without prior notification and the length of time they remain on the moderated list is dependent on there adhesion to the guidelines set out in this document

In the event that you have forgotten your password please click here to retrieve it or contact an Administrator.

Requests for membership can be refused or existing memberships terminated where there is the use of an inappropriate user name or email address where that name may be offencive or deceptive.

The Administration team reserves the right to refuse membership requests without entering into any further discussions.

If a forum account is left dormant and is not accessed for 12 months it will be automatically deleted from the forum system.

Who Are You?

It is notoriously difficult to police the Internet and it is rather pointless insisting on real names however if you wish to introduce yourself to the community please feel free to do so via the `Introduce Yourselves' board on the forums.

Those working within the industry are reminded of their employer’s likely policies regarding confidentiality and public comment. Even though this forum is membership only it remains very much a public platform and your employer is not going to welcome you revealing information of a confidential nature. However, we do welcome public relations managers and other management figures who feel able to contribute to the discussions on behalf of their firm. For this reason, unless you are in a position where you are disclosing non confidential information or making comments your employer would not object to you should consider whether such posts are appropriate. Posting under a nom de plum is one choice in such circumstances or you could forward information to the Administrator. Any information received will be posted in the strictest confidence.

No member shall identify, or attempt to identify, in public, the actual name of any member who uses a nom de plume. Any member who is deemed to be attempting this will receive a warning/ban.

Any member who it is discovered is an employee of a ferry or cruise operator and is posting continual praise for their firm or criticism of another firm under a hidden identity may be subject to a warning/ban.

Message Content Guidelines

Please try and ensure that your posting is placed in the right message board and remains on topic. In the event that your not sure where to place your message please indicate this in the subject line. Any threads that are deemed to be off topic will be either split, merged, moved, locked or deleted. If this does take place a private message will be sent to you explaining why this action has taken place.

Please do not post the same question multiple times in multiple threads. If no one responds to your question or request please leave it 7 days and then press the `bump' button at the bottom of the thread and this will move your message back to the top of the forum.

This is primarily an English language forum, however we do accept postings in French and Dutch. For those who do not speak English as a first language you are still welcome to post. Provided the meaning of a message is clear the quality of English will not be criticised. Any member criticising such messages will be subject to a warning or ban. The use of on-line translators such as Google Translator or Babelfish are acceptable as long as a link to the original article is provided.

Before posting a message please ensure, wherever possible, that the topic has not already been covered. Our forum offers an `Advanced Search Facility' which can be very beneficial when sourcing information or for new members who are joining us and posting for the first time.

Please ensure that your posting is to the benefit of the overall community. We are not here for you to hold a private conversation, we are here to discuss the industry which brought us here in the first place. If a member has taken the time to post a question or comment can you please consider your responses carefully. For instance can we not have a whole series of one line answers like "I agree" or "Yes". If you agree or disagree with a comment please state your reasons why, this is a discussion forum after all. You do not win any prizes for posting in such a manner and you receive no accolades for seeing your name on the Internet. Any member deemed to be posting in such a manner will be subject to having there posts set to moderation approval preventing them from posting directly to the boards.

AIS Observations - The use of internet based AIS has made it easier for us all to track shipping worldwide and is a valuable tool to both the industry and the enthusiast alike. When posting AIS observations to the boards we kindly ask that the sighting is of use and benefit to the whole community. For example the Port of Calais is closed and you note on AIS that the Pride of Dover has just entered the port of Calais, this is news worthy as it is obvious that the port has now re-opened. However we kindly ask that we don't have a whole page of forum posts saying "Oh the Pride of Calais is now sailing" and the European Endeavour is doing this, that and the other. A large number of our members log in to get the latest information and the facts and this process is hindered when you have to wade through countless pages of pointless posts.

We do not mind people asking questions but please use some common sense before posing a question. For instance is the information freely accessible on the Internet or via an Internet search engine such as Google, Live.com or Yahoo? If you can't find the answer please feel free to ask as we have a very knowledgeable membership, from maritime professionals to enthusiasts. Our boards offer an `Advanced Search Facility' which can be very beneficial when sourcing information.

Postings here will not become an 'English exam', however, please take the time to preview your message before posting so the point your trying to make is relativly clear. I can personally recommend IE Spell for spell checking in Internet Explorer.

We kindly ask that you do not use `Text Message Language' in your postings, plain English only please. Any messages using this form of dialogue will be deleted.

Please do not use excessively large font sizes or type in CAPITAL letters, as this can be considered to be "shouting". Any such messages will be edited.

Polls/Surveys are welcome in threads but please make sure they are relevant to the subject in hand. Any polls deemed to be irrelevant will be deleted and the users ability to create polls could be removed if this continually happens.

If you are posting a news story please, where applicable, please provide the source of the information. For example if you use a news story from the BBC website please provide the web site address of the article. This also applies when forwarding messages from another forum or news group. Please provide the name and website address of the other group (For example "Message taken from Ferries of Northern Europe http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/F ... ernEurope/")

Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they consider to be 'inappropriate' without warning.

Please do not question an Administrators/Moderators decision on the forum. If you have an issue with a decision, either contact an Administrator or the Moderator in question via email or the forums Private Message (PM) facility.

Do not post any adult content. Do not make inappropriate or offencive posts - including threats, harassment, swearing (this includes disguising letters in swear words), prejudice, slander, racism, deliberate insults or any other negative remarks about any other member, group or company.

TROLLING is prohibited here and will not be tolerated. Trolling is whenever someone is deliberately posting in a manner for the purpose of angering and/or insulting the other participants of the board. Trolling does not encourage further discussion, in the long run it only encourages personal attacks. Any member acting in this manner will face there membership being revoked.

If you see a post that you believe to be inappropriate or be an attempt at Trolling please click the `Report' button . This will notify the moderator team so the post can be reviewed and any action taken.

Photographic Posts

As a forum built on the back of a photographic website we welcome members photographs to be posted to our forum. A board has been set up for this specific purpose entitled the `The Dover Patrol'.

When posting to the The Dover Patrol board we kindly ask that you state the date and location in the subject line of your message.

Please try not post an excessive number of photographs per post. If you have a large number of photographs that you think members may be interested in seeing there are plenty of websites such as Shipspotting, Ships Nostalgia and Fotopic to host your images on then post a link to them here.

Ideally please do not post anymore than 15 pictures per post. I am willing to be lenient on this if the content is relevant, we don't want to see 20 images of the same vessel taken a few seconds apart.

Our forum offers an attachment facility to enable you to upload your photographs directly to the forums. There is currently a limit of 3 attachments per post and 1 attachment per private message. Images up to 1MB in size can now be posted. If you wish to use a photographic hosting service as per the old forum you still can. A few examples of which are listed below:

PhotoBucket
ImageShack
PostImage
Flickr

Please respect your fellow members as those not connecting to the site via a broadband connection may experience slow page loading times and excessive data charges if doing so via a mobile connection.

If your posting photographs via a photographic hosting service such as Photobucket please don't post photographs bigger than 1024x768 pixels. If you are using our forums attachment facility there is no pixel size limit as the system automatically creates a thumbnail image.

Please make sure your photographs are relevant to the subject matter in hand.

Please do not use images obtained from the Internet unless you have the permission of the copyright holder to use them. If permission is granted please state the name of the copyright holder in your post. Copyright theft is rife on the Internet nowadays and we don't wish to be party to this by hosting such images on our server.

If you find a picture on the Internet that may be of interest to other members please post a link to the website in question and provide the name of the website.

We welcome comments to be left on the `Dover Patrol' board with regards to members photographs but can we not have a whole series of one line posts like "Great Photos". If you would like to leave feedback to the poster please put a bit of thought into your response. For instance, why is is a great photo?, What does it mean to you? As I stated before, this is a discussion forum not a personal blog site and one word responses will be deleted.

Forum Abuse, Private Message and Email Abuse Policies

All Moderation decisions/actions are to be carried out `off list' via use of the forums in built warning and moderation system. This will be backed up by Private Messaging and/or email.

If you receive a Private Message from a moderator with regards to an action that has taken place on the forum a response is required to acknowledge the receipt of the message. Failure to acknowledge a moderator may result in your account being suspended.

Please remember that `Private Messages' received on these Forums are to be considered private and are not to be posted publicly unless the sender of the private message agrees. This rule does not apply to PM's relating to Moderation decisions which may be forwarded to the sites Administrators for dispute resolution purposes and general board management.

We take PM/email abuse very seriously, and it will result in the immediate removal of your membership and ban of your IP address, without warning.

As a member you agree to report any member whom you feel to be in violation of these rules to the Administration/Moderator team immediately via PM, Email or by clicking the `Report' button .

Registered forum members can view a copy of the rules here. We kindly ask that you read and agree with these rules before signing up for an account.

Photographic Submissions

If you have any photographs you would like to submit for possible use in the website please send them to raydover@doverferryphotos.co.uk .

All we ask is that you own the copyright or have permission to use the photographs you are submitting.

Any pictures used will be credited to you and if you own your own website we can even link back to your site.

This page was last updated on the 14 January, 2010

Ray Goodfellow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.