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Ships Monthly

Aug 01 2024
Magazine

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

CRUISE ANNIVERSARY

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

New plug-in hybrid dredger

Seawork at Southampton

New cruise ships ordered and delivered

The next mega-cruise ship delivered

Preservationist rewarded

Good news for Glenlee

Canadian CG’s new breaker

Fifth launched

New boxboat delivered to CMA CGM

Ammonia-to-electrical power

The benefits of wind power

Global container industry hits 30 million TEU

Portland order new Damen tug

West coast rescuer named

Fleet honours veterans on 80th anniversary

NEWS IN BRIEF

Baltic route and super-ferries sold

New ferries for Cowes service

FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

Norbay leaves the Irish Sea

Fast craft trials begin

New ticketing using Expain

Channel Islands future plans

Change at top for IOW

NEWS IN BRIEF

Problems abound for Seajets

Seaventure sold again

Reactivated

End for the line ‘down under’

Biggest ship for Regent fleet

Small ship expansion

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gowind platform divergence

Russia in America’s ‘backyard’

Power for BMD platforms

There may be trouble ahead with US frigates

Norway completes CG trio

F126 build commences

NEWS IN BRIEF

London Gateway expansion pushes on

Dredgers receive a rebrand

Reduction

Methanol-fuelled ships for HMM

New designs

Bunker spill in Singapore

EU hits Russian LNG shipments

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OCEAN’S ‘M’ CLASS SHIPS OF THE LATE 1970s • In the mid-1970s, as containerisation was gathering pace, the Ocean Group saw a need for modern multi-purpose ‘Combo’ type ships. Seven such ships, known as the ‘M’ or ‘Menelaus’ class, were delivered between 1977 and 1980 for employment with Barber Blue Sea Line and Elder Dempster Lines. Malcolm Cranfield looks at the histories of these seven ships.

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.

1 The early pioneers • This year marks 120 years since the advent of ‘pleasure cruising’ by P&O in the early 20th century. Since then, the cruise business has grown to become a worldwide industry, with hundreds of thousands of people enjoying cruises on ships large and small, offering food, facilities and entertainment which the early pioneers could not have envisaged.

2 Early postwar cruising

3 Ocean liners to cruise ships

4 The modern purpose-built cruise ship

5 Growth of the cruise industry

6 Cruise ship design innovations

HMS INVINCIBLE THEY CALLED HER ‘VINCE’ • James Hendrie...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 92 Publisher: Kelsey Publishing Ltd Edition: Aug 01 2024

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: July 26, 2024

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

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

CRUISE ANNIVERSARY

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

New plug-in hybrid dredger

Seawork at Southampton

New cruise ships ordered and delivered

The next mega-cruise ship delivered

Preservationist rewarded

Good news for Glenlee

Canadian CG’s new breaker

Fifth launched

New boxboat delivered to CMA CGM

Ammonia-to-electrical power

The benefits of wind power

Global container industry hits 30 million TEU

Portland order new Damen tug

West coast rescuer named

Fleet honours veterans on 80th anniversary

NEWS IN BRIEF

Baltic route and super-ferries sold

New ferries for Cowes service

FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

Norbay leaves the Irish Sea

Fast craft trials begin

New ticketing using Expain

Channel Islands future plans

Change at top for IOW

NEWS IN BRIEF

Problems abound for Seajets

Seaventure sold again

Reactivated

End for the line ‘down under’

Biggest ship for Regent fleet

Small ship expansion

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gowind platform divergence

Russia in America’s ‘backyard’

Power for BMD platforms

There may be trouble ahead with US frigates

Norway completes CG trio

F126 build commences

NEWS IN BRIEF

London Gateway expansion pushes on

Dredgers receive a rebrand

Reduction

Methanol-fuelled ships for HMM

New designs

Bunker spill in Singapore

EU hits Russian LNG shipments

SUBSCRIBE TODAY

OCEAN’S ‘M’ CLASS SHIPS OF THE LATE 1970s • In the mid-1970s, as containerisation was gathering pace, the Ocean Group saw a need for modern multi-purpose ‘Combo’ type ships. Seven such ships, known as the ‘M’ or ‘Menelaus’ class, were delivered between 1977 and 1980 for employment with Barber Blue Sea Line and Elder Dempster Lines. Malcolm Cranfield looks at the histories of these seven ships.

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.

1 The early pioneers • This year marks 120 years since the advent of ‘pleasure cruising’ by P&O in the early 20th century. Since then, the cruise business has grown to become a worldwide industry, with hundreds of thousands of people enjoying cruises on ships large and small, offering food, facilities and entertainment which the early pioneers could not have envisaged.

2 Early postwar cruising

3 Ocean liners to cruise ships

4 The modern purpose-built cruise ship

5 Growth of the cruise industry

6 Cruise ship design innovations

HMS INVINCIBLE THEY CALLED HER ‘VINCE’ • James Hendrie...


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