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

PERFECT PADDLE POWER

Contributors this month

Remembering two ship lovers from both sides of the Atlantic

HMS Cattistock awarded Freedom of Poole

Incat proposal

Dual fuel power for Wallenius

Tug converted to methanol

NEWS IN BRIEF

Oldest active icebreaker

Hydrogen power for Vestfjord pair

Royal celebration for Hebridean Princess

Lifeboat flotilla in Poole

ACL launches speedy service

Australia ban live sheep exports

Win a piece of maritime history with Medway Queen

NEWS IN BRIEF

Spirit of Britain chartered out

Stena to convert North Channel pair to methanol

FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

E-Flexer tailored for Canada’s Marine Atlantic

Big boost for Rathlin Island links

Freight vessels’ capacity boost

NEWS IN BRIEF

Expedition ship refurbished

Another newbuild delivered

Stern-wheelers to be scrapped

Another oldie about to go for scrap?

Majesty at home in the Netherlands

Refitted at Harland & Wolff

Latest Queen christened

NEWS IN BRIEF

PLAN to trial EMALS

Black Sea fleet ins and outs

Big deck news

Norway means business

‘Golden Age’ of shipbuilding

The Duke frigates soldier on

NEWS IN BRIEF

More bulk carriers for Belships

Panama Canal’s problems end?

Greenpeace

First through new Baltimore channel

Messina Line expands fleet

US to impose import tariffs

New tankers for Seaspan

Historic flagships announced for 2024 by NHS

Steam tug gets lottery grant

Historic ketch in need of help

First of the puffer training cruises

On the move

Paddle steamer damaged

Tall ship celebrates 150 years

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NEW MARINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR A NEW AGE • New technologies are being introduced to the maritime sector that are expected to radically change it over the next several decades, as Jim Shaw reports.

CARBON CAPTURE RETROFIT

THE MOVE TO ALL ELECTRIC

CONDOR ISLANDER • Darren Holdaway profiles Condor Islander, the latest ferry linking the Channel Islands, which arrived last year after more than a decade of service across the Cook Strait.

ON BOARD CONDOR ISLANDER

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE • Andrew Cooke talked to Captain Alistair Butlin, from Brixham in Devon, about his career at sea and his time on Condor Islander during a crossing from St Helier to Portsmouth.

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.

KINGSWEAR CASTLE’S FASCINATING STORY

MEDWAY QUEEN’S LENGTHY CAREER IN THE SOUTH...