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

WELCOME • NEW FERRIES DUE TO DEBUT IN 2023

Contributors this month

New Polar researcher

Mediterranean to become ECA

Shieldhall gets ready for a busy season

Ammonia-ready for Grimaldi

MyStar up and running on the Baltic

Hydrogen-powered mini-bulkers

On the beach

First robotic vessels delivered

NEWS IN BRIEF

Enchanted Capri under demolition

China develops cruise ship

New for Japan

Dual-fuel crude tanker on the Clyde

P&O’s new year comings and goings

Hydrogen-powered

Viking Line sells oldest ferry

FERRIES IN THE NEWS…

Significant increase in trading results

New vessel, bridges and pier updates planned

First double-ender on trial

Color Line ferry heads south

Transmanche ring the changes

Brittany makes vessel switch

Unscheduled maintenance needed

Cruise giant’s smallest order book for years

Last new ship of 2022 debuts at Southampton

Another new record for RCI

Cutting back on stewards

New Arleigh Burkes on trials

Poland’s Arrowhead frigates

Inbound missiles

A job well done by Montrose

Uncrewed sub for the deep

Watching the noisy neighbours

‘K’ Line shifting to alternative fuels

Yet again world’s largest boxship

Dual-fuel tankers completed for Fisher

Wan Hai to scrap ten feeders

Highest valued world fleets

Japan’s ONE charters ships

Caught in the Bosphorus

Remembering the loss of Princess • Russell Plummer recalls the tragic day in January 1953 when North Channel vessel Princess Victoria sank on the Irish Sea in a storm, with only 44 of a total of just over 300 passengers and crew surviving.

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NEWHAVEN-DIEPPE INTO A SECOND CENTURY • Continuing our series looking at major ferry routes from British ports, Russell Plummer traces the history of an English Channel connection with France that started back in the late 19th century and now employs two modern vessels which were introduced as recently as 2008.

SERVICE BY PARIS IN PEACE AND WAR

ROUTE’S BRIEF HIGH-SPEED INTERLUDE

ON BOARD THE CURRENT DIEPPE SISTERS

ABANDONED THE STORY OF LINER-CUM-CRUISE SHIP MEDITERRANEAN SKY • Lying half-sunk and keeled over at the North Western end of the Gulf of Elefsina are the rusting remains of the Greek ferry Mediterranean Sky, once the passenger cargo liner City of York and part of the once-mighty Ellerman & Bucknall fleet. Henry Brayshaw traces the history of this once famous ship, which dates from the 1950s.

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