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

LOOKING BACK WITH PRIDE

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hunting for unexploded ordnance on the seabed

Taking dredgers to work

New for Smyril

Furetank orders more Vingas

Singapore sets tonnage record

World’s oldest

Three sails to be retrofitted

Steamer trips

Work begins on Wingfield

Former Mersey ferry set for new role

A new life for S.A. Agulhas

Bridgemans complete Isabelle purchase

Old Mormac ship scrapped

New ASD tug

Chemship’s wind Challenger

NEWS IN BRIEF

Harland and Wolff plan Scillies route

Storm Henk hits services to the Isle of Wight

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

Glen Sannox finally starts trials

Stena Line begins Liverpool-Dublin freight link

On the move

NEWS IN BRIEF

Another health scare with homeports moved

More mega ships on the way

Another failure

Epic world cruise lasting 274 days

One named and one ordered in Carnival merry-go-round

Chinese in the market

NEWS IN BRIEF

Russia’s Black Sea losses grow

Refurbished frigates return

Steadfast Defender 24

Substitute aircraft carrier saves the day

Evolutionary LPD delivered

Greece looks to the stars

NEWS IN BRIEF

James Fisher ready for more tankers

Swire ship sold for New Guinea Islands service

ONE orders 12 alternative-fuelled boxboats

Arkas starts new link to US market

World’s box fleet at 30 million

From bulker to juice carrier

Longship orders

Megamas

Ammonia power developed

Eight energy efficiency bulkers on the way

Indian-built hybrids for ESL

NYK orders twin-engined LNG carriers

Ammonia-powered world first

Heavylifter delivers tugs

Orange order

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BLUE FUNNEL’S ‘P’ CLASS VESSELS • Mike Dovey recounts the careers of Blue Funnel’s ‘P’ class ships, which were a groundbreaking design in the 1960s, but which quickly became redundant when the container revolution took over world trade routes.

50-YEAR MILESTONE FOR LOCH RYAN PORT SCOTLAND’S SHORT LINK TO IRELAND • Russell Plummer looks back at over half a century of growth for ferry travel on two routes from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast and Larne in Northern Ireland, recounting Irish Sea North Channel ferry crossings which go back over a century from the time Stranraer was first developed as Loch Ryan’s major ferry port.

P&O first to bring in new Cairnryan pairing

Stena Line introduce route’s largest ferries

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