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

FERRY CHANGES AHEAD

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

National Historic Ships UK award winners

Polaris goes round the Cape

Keel-laying event

End of the line for Hebridean Isles

Lightvessel moves to Chatham

Inaugural LNG bunkering

Clacton set to go all-weather

Reefer sector continues to decline

Fire damaged carrier on the move

Largest cargo caller at Poole

Long-awaited Glen Sannox handed over by Ferguson

Maersk moves to Tilbury

Multipurpose collaboration

NEWS IN BRIEF

Guernsey go for Brittany Ferries while Jersey opt for DFDS

Ben-my-Chree on trials in Scottish waters

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

Scottish lay-up for Australian ferry

Moby Corse sold

First new ferry for 60 years

Freight ro-ro joins Olsen fleet

NCL move ships and change itineraries

Three ships ‘down under’

Midnatsol back to the coast

Treasure is named and enters service

Major refit

Delays and repositioning

NEWS IN BRIEF

US Navy set to extend careers of older ships

Not so ‘second-rate’ frigates

Combat supply ship delivered

Scott to get a new lease of life

Frigate friends

Suspended Admirals find new home

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Rotor sails installed on Oceanus Aurora

Hamburg Express named

LNG diverted

MSC sends its first newbuilds for scrap

Maersk upgrade

Monitoring the maiden voyage

Vertom orders four cargo ships

NEW YEAR SALE

TWO DECADES OF SERVICE BY USS RONALD REAGAN • The nuclear-powered Nimitz class aircraft carrier has had an eventful career with the United States Navy over the past two decades. James Hendrie looks back over the operations in which the ship has been involved.

CVN-76 DEPLOYMENTS

HALCYON DAYS Passenger shipping in the 1940s and 1950s • These unique images, from Halcyon Days by Nigel Hughes and Trevor Jones, open a window on passenger shipping in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when some of the most famous ships ever built were enjoying their finest days in an era of peace.

LUXURY UNDER SAIL • A few niche cruise companies are catering for people who want environmentally-friendly cruising, and it does not get much greener than sailing cruise ships, many of which offer their guests five-star luxury, as Steve Newman reports.

KING SEAWAYS • The DFDS cruise ferry King Seaways operates overnight crossings from Newcastle to IJmuiden, and is now nearing the 40th anniversary of her entry into service. Nicholas Leach looks back over the ship’s varied career with three operators.

ON THE BRIDGE

EASTHAM AND THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL...