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

TECHNOLOGY BOOST

Contributors this month

Saving Savannah • The world’s first nuclear merchant ship

Portland to suspend container operations

NEWS IN BRIEF

Bunkering vessel tours Northern Europe

New electric hybrid ferry

Two heavylifters ordered

Newbuilds on the south coast

New for Iceland

Waverley is national flagship for 2024

Ammonia-to-electrical power

‘Four-wheel-drive’ of the seas

Arklow’s latest hits the water in Netherlands

Second ‘methanol enabled’ boxboat

Newbuild for Mercy Ships

HMM orders heavylift ships

Manannan makes Mersey history

Cross-Thames passenger service comes to an end

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

Long delay for Caledonian Isles

Extra ferry

Stena Line widen scope

Trial trips for Brittany and DFDS

Triple sail towers fitted

New lease of life

Expansion for smaller line

Delayed delivery

Massive order for eight new ships over a decade

Coastal operator grows

Expansion for smaller line

QUEEN ANNE MAKES HER DEBUT • First new Cunarder for more than a decade

MAIN FEATURES ON QUEEN ANNE

Ukrainians in the UK

New independent deterrent

Light fantastic

‘Something is wrong with our ships’

Peru commits to fleet renewal

More European exports

WindWings’ positive results

MSC continues buying spree

Retrofitted

Stena Bulk sells LNG fleet

Zero-emission via ammonia

Massive gas tanker proposed

New reefers for Seatrade

USS HORNET AND HER FOUR BATTLE STARS • James Hendrie recalls the career of the Yorktown class aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Midway, but was sunk a few months later.

HMS STARWORT COTSWOLD SUB KILLER AND SOUTHERN WHALER • Guy Ellis traces the career of HMS Starwort, one of the venerable Flower class corvettes that performed valuable and valiant service throughout World War II.

D-DAY Eighty years on • Conrad Waters looks back 80 years to the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. Codenamed Operation Neptune, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

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.

CRYSTAL SERENITY FROM RUIN TO RENAISSANCE THE CRYSTAL ERA RETURNS • Fresh from a comprehensive $150 million revitalisation, Crystal’s flagship Crystal Serenity recently docked at Miami to commence a series of cruises to the Caribbean, where Andy Hernandez was invited aboard.

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