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

MILESTONES MARKED IN BUSY YEAR

Contributors this month

Ferry to Flotel for Baltic veteran

New Chinese rescue vessel

Next generation

NEWS IN BRIEF

Aranui 5 set to cruise with cargo

Irish Sea expansion

Second dual-fuel newbuild

Low water on the Amazon

Free crossings

New names announced by Cal Mac

Ellerman MSC partnership

Busy week at Meyer Turku

Heavylifter rebuild

Final departure

Old ro-ro blown ashore in Med

End of the road for Jubilee ST

Second Dover vessel delivered

New Mersey ferry to be built on the Mersey

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

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ireland ferry growth for Rosslare and Dublin

Condor Ferries route debut

Superstar vessel completed

Out of service for a second time

Giants delivered by Meyer

Another sale

NEWS IN BRIEF

Three new ships named and enter service

Unexpected stay in dry dock causes delays

Confusion reigns

New offshore ‘Patrouilleurs’

Spain’s submarine milestone

Modern MEKO

NEWS IN BRIEF

The ‘Swiss Army’ ship

New Type gets under way

Red Sea interceptors

London Scrap Terminal’s first caller

Russia’s Rosatom takes over FESCO

LNG-powered Newcastlemax bulkers

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hapag-Lloyd takes first SFL vessel

Green routes

CMA CGM builds up its fleet

Sevmorput to be retired

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THE MANY LIVES OF ISLE OF INNISFREE • George Holland looks back over the varied career of the cross-Channel veteran Isle of Innisfree, which began her career in the 1990s as Prins Filip and has been known by no fewer than ten names.

ISLE OF INNISFREE • DOVER-CALAIS ROUTE

THE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY SCENE HALF A CENTURY AGO • In 1973 more than 40 ferries were operating a wide range of cross-Channel routes. Part One looked at ships serving the main Dover routes, and here Nicholas Leach looks back half a century at the historic ferries running out of Harwich, Felixstowe, Newhaven, Southampton and Folkestone.

THE BIG PICTURE

‘LINE ASTERN’ AT LAGOS • In January 1976 Malcolm Cranfield visited Nigeria to photograph ships anchored off Lagos, and saw three familiar ships berthed ‘line astern’, discharging cement.

MARITIME MOSAIC WARSHIPS ON THE THAMES • The Thames is visited by warships from countries all around the world from time to time. The ships call at Greenwich and the Upper Pool of London to moor alongside HMS Belfast, often in connection with memorial commemorations, significant anniversaries or for goodwill visits as guests of the Royal Navy. This selection of photographs by Fraser Gray shows warships...