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

FUTURE FERRIES SET TO BE CLEAN

Contributors this month

WATERFRONT

Retrofitted with rotor sails

Sovereign goes to MSC

First of four LNG-fuelled PCTCs

Global Mercy begins operations

Chain ferry out of overhaul

HMM goes for methanol

Changing ferries at Fishguard

NEWS IN BRIEF

Efforts to restore historic Irish ferry

Ferry berth changes in Dublin

Methanol power

Historic paddler being readied for summer

Agreed into the next century

WindKeeper SWATHs ordered

NEWS IN BRIEF

Manxman set for her final sea trials

Great Belt takeover of ForSea ready to go ahead

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

Silja Europa back in ferry traffic on the Baltic

Problems for northern routes

Boost for Fair Isle operations

A hybrid future for the ferry industry • The ferry industry is investing in environmentally friendly ships, and a total of 17 new ferries are due to enter service over the next few years, starting with Santoña, the latest E-Flexer.

A new home for Ryndam after refit

Earthquake relief in Turkey

Unexpected sale of Magica

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Double whammy for carrier

The end of the Typhoon era

Carrier scuttled

Autonomous demonstrator delivered

CAMM for Saudi Arabia

Rapid Auxiliary acquisition force

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hapag-Lloyd to retrofit 100 ships

New wind turbine foundation installer delivered

Post-pandemic price drop

Ammonia-fuelled

Tailwind starts new service

Fisher extends charters

Fuel-saving

Capturing the wind

Hybrid and wind-assisted

Methanol-fuelled twins for MCP

Diesel-electric for Vertom

New dual-fuel MSC boxships

AAL’s dual-fuel carriers

OOCL new 24,000TEU giants

Remembering the Canadian City Line

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UNION-CASTLE’S LAST LINER A FINAL VISIT TO WINDSOR CASTLE • Peter Knego remembers visiting Margarita L, the former Union-Castle liner RMS Windsor Castle, 25 years ago, in late 1998, when the ship was languishing in the Bay of Eleusis.

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PICTORIAL • Have you an outstanding photo that would grace our gallery? Send your image to Ships Monthly for inclusion in these pages, which showcase the best in ship photography around the world.

CALEDONIAN MACBRAYNE 50 YEARS OF FAME • In 2023 Caledonian MacBrayne will mark half a century since it began operations and its familiar livery first appeared in the waters of the Firth of Clyde and West Highlands of Scotland. Colin J. Smith looks back over the last 50...