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.

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WHIRLWIND WORLD OF FERRIES

Contributors this month

Latest Channel E-Flexer debuts

NEWS IN BRIEF

Stena develops new concept

First German electric cat

Net Zero demonstrator arrives in the UK

25 years of Dover-Dunkirk

Latest project ship named

Norbank departs British waters

Yno 320 launched

Tallink swaps ferries round

Next-generation green ferry

All change for the Channel Islands ferry scene

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Scotland’s ferry jinx strikes again

NEWS IN BRIEF

Destined for waters new

Hydrofoils revisited by Red Funnel

Stena sale causes reshuffle

Grimaldi’s ‘green’ investment

Zero emission ferries ordered

Another leaves Seabourn fleet

NEWS IN BRIEF

First sea trials

Breakers claim another classic

Residential cruise ships planned

Two more Leonardo ships

Prepared for pastures new

Birth of the 21st century Dreadnought

River class reaches milestone

Danes adapting to change

Indonesia’s Italian interest

Air umbrella

Go heavy on the icebreakers

NEWS IN BRIEF

AirWing installed on Vectis Progress

NEWS IN BRIEF

Global Marine Systems sold

Aground and then refloated

Fatal collision off the Humber Estuary

MSC take over terminals

Tanker gets four 22m eSAILs

Auckland’s annual tug races make fine spectacle

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FERRIES TO THE CHANNEL ISLANDS • Kevin Mitchell looks at the recent process to award ferry contracts to the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and provides an overview of the history of the Islands ferry services.

CONDOR FAST CRAFT

SPOTLIGHT ON FOUR RO-PAX SISTERSHIPS

MARITIME MOSAIC UNION-CASTLE LINERS • Ships of the famous Union-Castle Line, established in 1900 with the merger of the Union Line and Castle Mail Packet Company, linked the UK and South Africa. The Line operated passenger, cargo and mail services, and its lavender-hulled ships, celebrated on the postcards reproduced here, were iconic symbols of their era. However, the rise of air travel, increasing fuel costs and the advent of container shipping led to its eventual decline.

POLARSTERN Germany’s ice explorer • The icebreaker Polarstern has travelled 1.9 million nautical miles over the course of 40 years, operating as Germany’s Arctic and Antarctic explorer. Phillipp Steiner looks at the ship’s operational career.

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.

THE HISTORIC SHIPS OF FJORDSTEAM...