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

CONTRAST OF OLD AND NEW

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Massive new floating LNG facility

Next generation icebreaker

Multratug for the Black Sea

Float-out for new Mersey ferry

Direct Morocco-Europe service

Farewell to Silver River

Orca class heavy lifters debut

Cook Strait ferry upgrade

DFDS sat to optimise fleet

Svitzer expands

UK bans Russian services

Another delivery

Looking into the Futura

Cross-Solent catamaran

New Orca class debuts for SAL

Combi Freighter 5000 planned

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Spirits of Leith

Upgrade for ferry pioneer

Stena adds Bothnia service

Chronic unreliability continues

Moby forced to sell five

Japan aims for efficiency

Ready to Grace the seas

Another Wish on the way

Failed Goddess project ends

Dry-dockings round Europe

Time to say goodbye to Deutschland

Out of business

Residents’ charters cancelled

NEWS IN BRIEF

Amphibious ambitions revealed

First remote mine hunter

Copycat carrier enters service

First intervention frigate delivered

Doomsday weapon

Arms race going nuclear

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Stena Bulk sells two product tankers

Ellerman acquires Viasea

Torm buys from Scorpio

Evergreen orders from Samsung

LPG carrier hit by drone

Aasen returns to Dutch yard

Uranium loaded at Dunkirk

NEW YEAR SALE

P&O SS CANBERRA TURBO-ELECTRIC LINER TURNED FALKLANDS WAR LEGEND • The P&O SS Canberra, launched in 1960 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, was a strikingly modern ocean liner known for her sleek profile and powerful turbo-electric propulsion system. She gained legendary status after serving as a troopship during the 1982 Falklands War, and remained a beloved cruise vessel until her retirement in 1997. Neil McCart looks back over her career.

COMPAÑIA TRASMEDITERRÁNEA ICONS OF SPAIN’S MARITIME HERITAGE Part One Inception to the 1950s • Few visitors to Spanish ports prior to 1992 can have failed to admire the stylish and immaculately maintained vessels of the Compañia Trasmediterránea (Trasmed), in the company’s striking traditional livery of white hulls and yellow-and-red stacks. Trevor Jones presents a historical view of some of its most notable vessels and vessel classes in that splendid colour scheme.

THE BIG PICTURE

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HMS BELFAST Standing guard over Britain’s wartime legacy • HMS Belfast has been an iconic sight in central London on the River Thames since she became a museum ship in 1971. She entered service just before the outbreak of World War II, during which she was...