Have just signed up for this email group and thought I would test it by
sending you a photo of the Lady Scarlet cruise ship. I took this as we passed
under her bows during a fun race a few weeks ago in the Solent. Luckily she was
at at anchor, otherwise it might have been a bit fraught. You probably can’t
see it from this angle but on the vertical post, right up in the bows is a
black ball. Any vessel at anchor should display this but they all use roughly
the same size. So the mark gets lost on bigger ships, mind you the anchor chain
can be a give away. Another info stream for the museum could be signal marks on
ships!!