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.

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IS IT A SHIP?

Contributors this month

New contracts

Cruising with cargo still possible

New route to Rotterdam

Airbus rotor-equipped ro-ros

Megaship Icon of the Seas christened in Miami

Biggest hopper dredger floated

World’s first methanol fuelled

NEWS IN BRIEF

Extra tonnage to combat disruption

Passenger boost for Viking Line

Busy Poole port

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd in new partnership

Hybrid for Italy’s Prysmian Group

French order from Spain

LNG-powered car carriers

Extended deal with Peel Ports

Pride of Canterbury ends career in Turkey

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

Epsilon leaves Irish Sea for the Baltic

Back at work on the Irish Sea

Steel cut for first New-Max

Patria Seaways sent south

Another oldie sold and renamed

More changes to itineraries

Change of plan

Caught in storm, leading to power loss

World Cruises depart on extensive circumnavigations

Another startup?

New frigate shows itself

The X-Form submarine factor

‘No decision’

Turkey’s naval renewal

New hospital ships ordered

Diamond cuts through

Cargo ship contracted for St Helena

China develops rotor sails

Retro-fit rotors

NEWS IN BRIEF

UHT and Dongbang form strategic alliance

Giant liquid ammonia carriers

Sails for new boxships

Ice-class and multi-purpose

Lake tripper updated

Is it the end for historic lightship?

Raised from river ‘down under’

Canadian tug lifted from river

Historic cargo vessel returns home

Wreck to be lifted from Lake

Ambuscade gifted to UK

Sunk at moorings on Thames

HMS WELLINGTON “The Good Shepherd” • This year marks the 90th anniversary of the launch of HMS Wellington, the last surviving Royal Navy Grimsby class sloop, which is now preserved in London on the Thames. Sheena Thomson looks back over the historic ship’s career.

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FERRY DISASTERS IN THE POST-WAR ERA • Over the last 70 years a number of large ferries have sunk, with tragic consequences. Richard M. Jones describes the incidents, which often saw great loss of life, and explores the reasons behind the tragedies.

1968 WAHINE CROSSING TO WELLINGTON

1987 HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE ZEEBRUGGE

2000 EXPRESS SAMINA AEGEAN SEA

PICTORIAL • Have you an outstanding photo that would grace our gallery? Send your image to Ships Monthly for inclusion in these pages, which showcase the best in ship photography around the world.

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