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

PRESERVING OUR SHIP HERITAGE

Contributors this month

New Polar researcher

Busy times at the Tranmere oil terminal

Vroon restructure fleet

American-built windfarm worker

World’s largest zero emissions ferry

Battery power for Norwegians

Built for Latsco

Acta goes for next generation

NEWS IN BRIEF

Tasmanian twins set to be delivered

P&O rings changes at Teesport

Chilean breaker

St Helena drydocked

Third of six Edda sisters launched

Methanol-powered

Eco-friendly 24,000TEU boxship

Praise for cuts in carbon footprint

Another order for Cemre in Turkey from Scotland

FERRIES IN THE NEWS…

Latest E-Flexer Santona handed over

Former Brittany vessel for sale

Great Belt

The ferry news from Spain

More new ships set to enter service

Collision at Turkish Black Sea port

Line closure

UK fleet grows with ambitious acquisition

Another set for disposal

Boost for French cruising

New ships for RFA

New surveillance mission

The Dukes of Ankara

Hypersonic or hyperbole?

The Americans’ wish list

I is for indigenous production

Seapeak acquires and rebrands Evergas

Six Tsakos tankers sold

New Suez Canal record transits

First boxboat scrapped in two years

Good second-hand market

Record-breaking

Algoma Central buys twins

Urgent repairs

Regeneration programme for paddler

Reopened after two years

Loch Ness flagship for hire

Funds needed for seagoing paddler

Replacement mast needed

Changing rules

Badger marks 70th birthday

Historic tug celebrates 75 years of service • The motor tug Kent is 75 years old this year, and, now based in the south, is a fine example of a successful preservation project.

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PANDORO IRISH SEA FREIGHT FERRY TRAILBLAZERS • David Fairclough looks at the ro-ro revolution on the Irish Sea that was started in the 1970s by Pandoro, and recalls the vessels operated by the company.

FROM STENA TRADER TO LEOPARD

SCOTLAND TO IRELAND LINK

GREYHOUNDS OF THE FLEET • Conrad Waters assesses the Royal Navy’s Type 21 Amazon class frigates, designed in the late 1960s and built in the 1970s in time to play a prominent part in the Falklands War.

THE FALKLANDS WAR

THE BIG PICTURE

SINGAPORE IN ‘74 • Victor H. Young recalls a trip to Singapore in 1974 to photograph the ships in the pre-boxboat era, when conventional cargo vessels were much in evidence.

CHANDRIS TANKERS • Although the Chandris family is best known for its passenger liners, during the 1960s the company became one of the first...