Vessels — the basics

The Vessels module is your directory of ships. You can look up a vessel, see its details (dimensions, identifiers, current position, recent port visits), and keep your own vessels and notes alongside the shared data.

Open it from the sidebar: Vessels (the ship icon). You need the Ships permission to see it.

Where vessels come from

SHIPM8 already knows about a huge number of ships from shared maritime data, so most vessels are already there to look up — you don't have to add them. On top of that, your organisation can:

• Add its own vessels that aren't in the shared data.
• Tag any vessel and add extra fields of your own, to keep the information that matters to you.

There's an important difference to keep in mind:

• Shared vessels (from the maritime data) can be viewed by everyone, but their core details aren't editable — you can still add your own tags and fields to them.
• Your own vessels (ones your organisation added) can be fully edited and deleted.

What you can do

• Find a vessel — search the list, simply or in detail.
• Vessel details — what the details screen shows.
• Add a vessel — register a ship your organisation needs.
• Edit or delete a vessel — change or remove your own vessels.
• Tags — label vessels so they're easy to group and find.
• Custom fields — add your own pieces of information to a vessel.

A note on the buttons

A few buttons — Save, New, Add, Edit, Search, Clear — show in English even when the app is set to Dutch. This guide uses those English labels so they match your screen.