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...