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

EVER CHANGING FERRY SCENE

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Donation helps famous Clyde ship

Historic ferry back from drydock

Jean-Yves Brouard

Grimaldi gets first of six G5 ships

Stena acquires Ventspils port

SolidSails employed by Neoliner

World’s largest for dual fuel

Reopened at Long Beach

Battleship Texas renovation nears completion

Record year for cruising to the capital

Dutch researcher

Golden Princess starts new life in Piraeus

New scientist

Fort Victoria’s uncertain future

Support vessel to spaceship

Manxman delivered from South Korea

Oscar Wilde enters service out of Pembroke

FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

Condor’s Channel Islands fleet expansion

Names of newbuilds announced

Alfred’s charter start delayed

Caen services takes the most

Seasons for Spirit and Epic cancelled

Sunshine, Pride and Dream

World’s largest

World America taking bookings

Fire on board

Cook acquires Caledonian Sky

Third newbuild makes her debut

Fast aid ships

Thailand’s new largest ship

Grave robbers

Back from the sidelines

Crew size drives rethink

Austal’s aluminium and steel

Stena tankers reborn in the USA

MSC passes five million TEUs

Specialists

Seatrade expanding reefer fleet

Zim’s boxships

Newbuild ready for Wan Hai

Samsung’s ‘Eco Container Ship’

Thames barge

Funds raised for famous trawler to be dry docked

Torpedo vessel on the Lough

Historic cruiser reopened

Steamship returns from drydocking

Paddler moved

The Tall Ship gets funding

Spanish galleon on south coast

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HOLYHEAD REMAINS KEY IRISH SEA PORT • Russell Plummer looks at ferry services out of the Anglesey port of Holyhead, now dominated by Stena Line’s and Irish Ferries’ giant ships.

REMEMBERING LONG-SERVING ST COLUMBA

STENA LINE • A new era

IRISH FERRIES • A new force

ARVIA • Alan Moorhouse looks at the main features of the new cruise ship Arvia, the latest from Meyer Werft to join the fleet of P&O Cruises.

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AUXILIARY AND SUPPORT CRAFT

GERMAN SHIPPING TO THE LEVANT • Malcolm Cranfield examines the German shipping companies involved in trading to the Eastern Mediterranean and the cargo ships they...