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

SCOTLAND’S AGED FLEET

Contributors this month

Off to East Anglian windfarms

All-electric

Trimaran Triton to be reactivated in Portland?

NEWS IN BRIEF

Brought ashore

HMS Queen Elizabeth’s Solent gun salute

Heb Isles set to be retired

Rhône works on the Mersey

X-Press Feeders’ green methanol network

Multipurpose triple-deckers

Britsol Channel rescuer named

Spirit of Tasmania floated out in Finland

New ferry for the Baltic enters service

50 years for Baltic route

Electric ferries for West Coast

New minehunter launched

Major industry award for Manx flagship

New fast catamaran joins the Balearia fleet

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

NEWS IN BRIEF

Changes to Isles of Scilly services on the way

More E-Flexers set to be built

Heysham looks to the Futura

New vessel due in October

New direction with new ships

First 200,000-tonners ordered

Fourth ship

NEWS IN BRIEF

Contrasting fortunes for German cruise companies

New ‘yacht’ joins the fleet

Solent record-breaker

Tripartite successor on trial

Corvette breaks cover

Supply ships out of action

NEWS IN BRIEF

Militarising the Arctic with ‘combat icebreakers’

Maple leaf destroyers

Canada looks to the North

New rotor sails for Berge bulker

New Arctic container route

Top Ship charter

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gearbulk sells joint venture

Overboard

MSC reaches six million

Tankers collide near Singapore

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STYLISH SISTERS NOW IN OPPOSITION ON THE DOVER STRAIT • Russell Plummer spotlights P&O Ferries’ Dover-based sisterships Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France, now more than ten years old, with the former now running for route rivals Irish Ferries as Oscar Wilde.

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LEANDER CLASS FRIGATES • Conrad Waters provides a photographic review of the Royal Navy’s Leader class frigates, which totalled 26 and were among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy’s modern history.

QUEEN ANNE CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO IN CUNARD SHAKE-UP • When Cunard’s Queen Anne welcomed her first guests in May, they were met with a distinctly different Cunard Queen. Chris Frame provides a detailed overview of the new Cunarder.

MAIN FEATURES ON BOARD QUEEN ANNE

THE BIG PICTURE

ISLE OF ARRAN Cal Mac stalwart marks 40 years of west coast service • Mark Nicolson traces the long career of Caledonian MacBrayne’s classic ferry Isle of Arran, which has served the Scottish west coast for 40 years.

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