Ships Monthly

Ships Monthly is the world’s number one shipping magazine and Britain’s best-selling monthly magazine for ship lovers. Read by seafarers and enthusiasts all over the world, it contains a unique mix of shipping and maritime news, broken down by ship type, with sections focussing on ferries, cruise ships, warships, preserved vessels, tugs and cargo ships. The features, written by experts in their field, cover ships old and new, historic shipping companies and their vessels, modern cruise liners and passenger ferries, warships and naval vessels, profiles of docks and harbours in the UK and around the world, and personal accounts of voyages on ships round the world. Every issue contains an interview with the captain of a ship. In addition to the latest happenings in the shipping industry, the Ship of the Month feature goes behind the scenes on a significant ship to give readers an all-round insight into the world of ships and shipping.

Ships Monthly

FAREWELL TO AN ICONIC LINER

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Christmas Day arrival

Electric power and speed

Homeward bound from Antarctica

Farewell to the old Pride of Bruges

Griffon wins Finnish order

Milestones for Portland Port

Ocean Infinity delivered

Top Trumps battleship announced

BW orders two

Rotor Sails power new tankers

Historic freighter to be scrapped

Expansion accelerates

Reprieve for old-timer

NEWS IN BRIEF

First new ship for Windstar

Caledonian Sky changes hands

NEWS IN BRIEF

Half a DP World away

Service problems unravelling

The Sounds of yesteryear

Steam Packet overhauls schedules

Still life in the old design

Incat’s electric renaissance

Shipbuilding struggles continue in USA

Poland’s selects Saab’s A26

Damen lands selection success

The UK’s Gulf drawdown

Atlantic Bastion

Ukrainian autonomous ingenuity

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Blumenthal sells its sole ship

Maersk trial new fuel blend

Maersk returns

Hapag-Lloyd orders methanol-fuelled feeders

Set for repairs

Containers lost off Isle of Wight

CGAS Saturn crew kidnapped

Arranmore Blu brings Island class into 21st century

NEW YEAR SALE

PORT LINE’S PIONEERING TRIO • Port Line operated some of the finest motor vessels of the 1920s and 1930s. Victor H. Young looks back at three of their best-known such ships, which entered service in the mid-1930s, built by yards on the Tyne and the Clyde.

MARITIME MOSAIC CHANNEL ISLAND FAST CRAFT • Condor began high-speed ferry operation to and around the Channel Islands in the 1960s. Car-carrying fast craft were introduced in the 1990s with the 74m Incat catamaran Condor 10 on the Weymouth-Guernsey-Jersey route, and later fast craft included Condor Express, Condor Vitesse and Condor Rapide. Tony Rive has photographed the various vessels during their service to Guernsey.

COMPAÑIA TRASMEDITERRÁNEA ICONS OF SPAIN’S MARITIME HERITAGE • Trevor Jones’ second article about Compañia Trasmediterránea covers the company’s fleet development from 1960 to 1991, from when its splendid classical livery was no longer to be seen.

THE BIG PICTURE

WEST HIGHLAND WANDERINGS • The annual visit of the paddle steamer Waverley to the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland not only offers passengers the opportunity to see glorious scenery and abundant wildlife, but allows shipping enthusiasts to view the diverse range of ships that operate in and frequently visit these waters. Colin Smith showcases some of the vessels encountered by Waverley and her passengers as she cruised the area during May...