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

CONTRASTING FERRY FORTUNES

Contributors this month

Sheerness service moved to Tilbury

NEWS IN BRIEF

President Sarmiento reaches 125

Overboard

Manxman reaches her new home

Lightship in the dock

Ipswich handles a million tonnes

Two new lifeboats in two weeks

SPOTLIGHT ON ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Baja Ferries take ro-ro vessel from Europe to Mexico

Alaska sets cruising records

Ferry problems

Hartlepool hosts

Paddler patron

Bright future

Passenger carryings improve slowly

NEWS IN BRIEF

CalMac could lose lifeline role to the islands

FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

New vessel triggers Channel fleet changes

Busy time for well-travelled vessel

Straitsman and Stavangerfjord

Withdrawing from the Great Lakes

NEWS IN BRIEF

Blue Sapphire cruises suspended

Change of ship

Expansion continues with Viking Saturn

French market

Engine fire in the Wilderness

Bankruptcy for troubled Vantage

Remote working tests prove successful

NEWS IN BRIEF

More life in the old timer

Backlog builds

Stirling work begins for latest RFA recruit

Breakdown and recovery

New drive for flagship

Maersk to convert boxboats to methanol

NEWS IN BRIEF

Rock installation depth record

On the rocks

Hapag-Lloyd’s three for recycling

World’s largest methanol engine

First VLCCs of year at Hound Point

Six boxboats for Asiatic

A2B-online

Methanol-ready to dredge the seas

ONE’s first Megamax boxship

LNG-powered for CMA CGM

Canada’s next Polar explorer for 2030

Another 24,000TEU container giant completed for MSC by Chinese shipyard

Next generation windfarmers

Methanol-ready for Sweden

National Historic Ships UK flagships 2023

International rescuers gather in Rotterdam

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BALMORAL SPOTLIGHT ON LONG TIME FRED. OLSEN FAVOURITE • Russell Plummer brings the story of the much-loved Britain-based cruise vessel Balmoral up to date.

TITANIC REMEMBERED

THE FOUR-SHIP OLSEN FLEET GETTING TOGETHER

THE ‘OLD GREY GHOST’ HMS Albion 1962-64 • Neil McCart recounts two eventful years in the career of HMS Albion, after she had been converted from an aircraft carrier to a commando carrier.

THE BIG PICTURE

OSCAR WILDE Irish Ferries’ Star turn • George Holland reviews the latest addition to the expanding fleet operated by Irish Ferries.

THE EXPANDING IRISH FERRIES FLEET

OSCAR WILDE ON BOARD FOR AN IRISH SEA CROSSING

MARITIME MOSAIC ERSKINE BRIDGE...