Help! Where are my ships?

yes, I'm a newbie

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I just got GCII yesterday and I'm having trouble finding my ships.  Ships that were prebuilt by the game are visible around the planet when the game starts, but ships that I build in the starport do not show up.  They do appear in the Ships and Planets list, but I am unable to get them to move from there.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.  

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

When you build a new ship, it starts orbiting the planet where you built it. You have to "launch" it from the planet in order to be able to move it and other stuff. By clicking a planet you should be able to see the ships orbiting it, and launch them accordingly.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Could you be a little more specific, please?  This is not covered in any of the tutorials.  Thank you. 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

When you click on one of your planets you should see the planet´s details in the central area below the main galaxy view. There you can see the planet´s population, approval, influence points, etc. To the right of the planet´s details you should see a small window showing what ship the local starport is building (if any). There you can also see what ships are orbiting the planet, and there´s also a button for launching any of them (you have to select which one to launch first).

Hope this clears it up!

 

Edit: Here you can see it (though without any ships orbiting the planet)

 

 

If there was any ship orbiting the planet, you´d see small icons of them below the "Ships in orbit:" headline.