Hello and welcome! Mine is of the fortunate not-so-few (363, according to maxshrike0) Minis slated to be departing on the TITUS on May 8. Who else is TITUS-bound?


In the admirable WW tradition of naming ships after famous tragedies from Antiquity to the Renaissance and the Elizabethan Era, the fine vessel transporting our Minis has been christened ‘Titus’.

A bit of background: ‘Titus,’ at least in spirit, originated as a Seneca tragedy during the times of Ancient Rome. William Shakespeare appropriated Seneca’s themes and storylines, creating the tragedy of ‘Titus Andronicus,’ first published in 1594 and finally completed in Shakespeare’s Folio edition 29 years later as the version we all know today. The title character is a Roman General who returns to Rome to much fanfare from a prolonged battle.

‘Titus Andronicus’ is one of Shakespeare’s earliest, most narratalogically interesting plays and undoubtedly his bloodiest (I will spare you the details). As befits a tragedy, the ending sees all the primary and many of the secondary characters succumb to a less than enviable fate .

I suppose it’s nice to know the pedigree of our ship but let’s hope that its fate does not mirror that of its namesake!

Again, happy sailing to all .

--Yan

 

Yup, I'm on Titus!

 

An interesting experience to track her from England. She had a brief stop on the east coast then a nice trip thru the Caribbean enjoying the sun with her top down (she told me so!!!) and I picked her up on March 16th.

 

After being left behind by Carmen last week ours finally made it on the Titus. Looks like its too soon to track it yet.

 

glad to hear your finally setting sail NUI! yippee!!!

 

Thanks Muse. Think about you everyday. Your ship landed right?

When the big day????

 

well it doesn't arrive in my port til may 13 or 14 cause i am down here in florida (otherwise known as the *** of the USA) so i get it last of everyone else....yep yep...

i am like the little kid who has to wait til really late to get picked up from school...the one left standing while the janitor cleans up...

i spoke to my MA and he aid may 20th it would be a good estimate of day to say to be picked up so i am waiting for the big 2-0

 

 

I ordered mine around April 18th. My status is "Awaiting Transport". Does the "En Route" screen tell you on which ship it has been loaded?

 

Check HERE, then there will be a pull down menu over Customer Centre, click track cargo, then enter your VIN #.

Max, your getting more info then I see, are you on the same site? I haven't looked around there much.

 

Thanks TWON. It appears that I'm loaded on TITUS as of 8 May at 5:01pm. I'll be back in the USA to pick it up in L.A. on 19th June. I expect that it shouldn't take any longer than that to get to L.A.

I get to drive it for 9 days then park it for a year :(

 

Using the WW Tracking Site: If you click on "Voyage" (yours should be ED718-TIT) you'll get the ship's itinerary. If you go to tracking, click booking instead auto, and use your booking number, you'll get all the VIN's on the ship in your booking number. Click Printer Friendly, you'll get the whole 363 Vins, when they were loaded, etc...

 

My MINI is on Titus!

 

Titus has left the Channel! She is west of France and north of Spain steaming towards Panama...

 

Clicky HERE to see where the Titus is!

Don't stare too long, it's gonna take a while for that dot to move, lol

 

Its really making speed.

I was tracking Carmen before as our car was suppose to be on her. It took a long time for it to move. I think the Titus is hauling because they were a day late to Southhampton.

 

If it really is setting sail a little later then expected, it may need to make up time and move a bit faster as I think they schedule an appointment to go through the Panama Canal at a certain time.

 

Titus seems to be making about 400 miles per day... Not bad... Due to dock at Port Hueneme 5/28... I think that distance/time works out about right...

I bet she makes Manzanillo (Panama) right on time on the 19th of May...

 

She's gone about 945 miles from Southampton since leaving the evening of 5/8...

Seems to be making about 18 miles per hour (standard miles, not nautical) right now... I'll bet she picks up speed, especially if they expect to make Manzanillo Terminal (Panama) on the 19th!

 

Looks like Titus slowed a little bit, probably as she approaches the Azores...

She's about 200 miles out of the Azores now, making about 15.8 statute miles per hour...

She better pick it up in order to make her scheduled call at Manzanillo Terminal by the 19th!

 

OK, now she's at the Azores... That's about 1450 miles out of Southampton, which is about 25% of the distance to the Atlantic mouth of the Panama Canal... Not sure how how she'll make about 4,000 more miles by the 19th... (her scheduled call at Manzanillo Terminal)...

Maybe Titus has a sport button? It is open seas between the Azores and Puerto Rico!

 

I tried to Google Earth it but couldn't see the ship.

 

Hi Nui, I'm pretty sure Google Earth isn't real-time... the Satellite images (or aerial view photographs) are usually up to several years old...

But Titus has picked up speed now, She is moving at about 22 mph after passing the Azores....

Open seas now... and maybe the Captain hit the sport button!?!

 

How do you get information about ships like that? Can I do it for a Navy ship too, like the USS Nimitz?

 

Hi Newt- It's from www.sailwx.info... the site gives voluntary position/weather info. If the Captain choses to report it, it is listed...

I'm pretty sure the US Navy wouldn't want such info readily available...