I've had several photographs hit the top, and I only post on Shipspotting. There's no absolute formula, but certainly photos of damage attract the ghoul in all of us. But one of mine was a stack marking! That one had many thousand hits, but has since been removed because a better one was posted. I can't explain what it takes to be a high-hitter. Like you said, some are awfully average.

Agreed, I load to various Facebook groups, as well as on here, but I post separately, without any links. It creates a false number of hits if you lose hits, and some quite ordinary photographs get into the top three. Perhaps there should be a site policy not to have links, or someway of blocking them.

I am with you regarding linking photos on different sites Capt., that is why I only load pics on this site only, even my facebook account is inactive.Years ago I used to send photos to Marinetraffic but have since stopped doing so.
Either shipsspotting or none.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

Emmanuel.L ,,thats the reason why I always opposed the linking of pictures to different sites and when on those sites the hits are counted they are also counted here at Shipspotter. That,s also the reason why one sees always the same posters in the top three spots. A lot people left or don,t upload much anymore,,like me.

Over 4700 in a little over 24hours, must be record. I have noted that casualties are a major attraction. I hope that no human casualties resulted from this incident.
Regards
Emmanuel.l.(Malta)

Hi Sydney- My father worked in Scott's Greenock before me HMS Glasgow bombed off ways laid new ones and launched it from there (Scary stuff)

In 40 years of working in a shipyard thankfully never had something like this happen it would have been our worst nightmare.

Hola Javi, muchas gracias. Esperemos que pronto lo veamos navegando de nuevo. Un fuerte abrazo

JR, soy Javi San. Eres un fenómeno. Un abrazo desde Santander.

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