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

BRETAGNE BOWS OUT IN STYLE

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

New eSAIL installation boosts efficiency

Steamer’s 100th birthday trip

Methanol power

German coastal tanker ablaze

Ruby goes to Yarmouth

Arctic Sunrise visits London

Stena marks Futura float-out

Damen delivers

New training ship Patriot State delivered

Belfast says farewell to FPSO

Wallenius acquires two ro-ros

End of the road for former Pride of York

Targe Towing’s fleet expands

New Irish rescuer delivered

Tenders for seven new ferries

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sea trials, then Saint-Malo heads west

Balearia’s new Mediterranean connections

FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

CalMac forced to ring the changes

Mistral moves

South Korean freight float-out

Green conversion completed

Fleet expansion continues

Another ship nears completion

New operator in Alaska

Quiet year on south coast

Final decision on historic liner

Oasis refitted

First drydocking for Adventure

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Clean-up ahead of the blame game

‘Awesome Aggie’ launched

Strike Warrior

US building toward two-class amphibious fleet

FDI frigate firsts for French

New direction for OPV project

NEWS IN BRIEF

CLdN orders ten new container ships

Essberger orders new tankers

PIL names two

Wind power for two gas carriers

Sopot baptised

Combi Freighters ordered

Spliethoff’s orders new ships

FAREWELL BRETAGNE • Brittany Ferries’ well-known cruise ferry, which has been a fixture on the south coast for decades, ended her service with the French operator on 3 November.

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HERE COMES THE SUN PRINCESS Princess Cruises’ new flagship • The new Sphere class cruise ship Sun Princess made her debut at Southampton in September prior to an inaugural season which took in the Mediterranean, followed by a repositioning to Port Everglades and the Caribbean. Alan Moorhouse reviews this significant ship, three decades after he cruised on the earlier ship of the same name.

THE THREE PRINCESSES

ON BOARD SUN PRINCESS

Ships MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC BELFAST CARGO CALLERS • The port of Belfast is visited by a wide variety of cargo ships which bring everything from containers to oil to wind turbine blades to Northern Ireland. It is the fifth busiest commercial port in the UK, with 12,476 commercial shipping movements in 2022. This selection of photographs by Roy Thompson shows some of the ships which visited in 2023.

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