Dock

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Ships that are in your crew and any crew that you are jobbing with will appear in the top section. Ferries will appear in the second section. The third section contains ships that have recently been boarded that are docked.
Thick blue outline: Personal vessel
Thin blue outline: Crew or flag vessel of your flag & its allied flags
Grey outline: Unrelated vessel
Red outline: Vessel of flag you're at war with or have declared war on
Abandoned at sea: Vessel deported without anyone on board
Lock icon*: Vessel locked by owner
Unlocked icon*: Vessel can be sailed by any crew officer, but not into sinking blockades, flotillas or Atlantis.
Unlocked skull*: Vessel is free to be sailed anywhere, including sinking blockades, flotillas or Atlantis.
Yellow wind icon: Vessel not ported at that island's dock
*Locking icons can only be seen by officers and above in a crew for that crew's vessels.

The dock allows you to see which ships are in port at the island you are on. Not all ships are shown. Ships that belong to your crew are always shown. Other ships are shown only if a pirate has been aboard them in the past thirty minutes. (Note: a server reboot wipes clean the list of recently boarded ships.)

Ships belonging to other crews are colored based on their relationship to your flag. Allies' ship names are blue. Ships you hold the deed to are outlined slightly thicker in blue. Red names indicate ships belonging to flags with which you're at war or declaring war against.

If you are on an island with functional buildings, you may also use the dock to take a ferry to any other island with functional buildings in the same archipelago.

Some pirates like to docktart, hanging around the docks and chatting with other pirates.

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