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

WELCOME • SIX DECADES OF HOVERTRAVEL

Contributors this month

Navantia shuffles FSS construction

Engineered for versatile work

Hafnia gets stake in Torm

NEWS IN BRIEF

Dual-fuel flagship launched in Antwerp

Global electric shipbuilding

AtoB@C coasters go green

Ceremony for Clacton rescuers

Wallenius expands fleet

Windea Clausius delivered

Sleipner ro-ro concept

First LNG dual-fuel boxboat

Another Felixstowe debut

Joint venture for LNG supply

NEWS IN BRIEF

Orkney eyes ferry replacements

Poland’s new ferry venture

Baleària expansion

Futura arrives on the Irish Sea

Late late show in Turkey

Fair Isle ferry revolution

More Icon class mega ships to be built

Destiny for the Caribbean

Pacific newcomer with cargo

The next Edge class ship should Xcel

Handed over

Major upgrades for Poesia

NEWS IN BRIEF

Norway selects British Type 26 frigates

Tough prerequisite for subs

‘Tit for tat’ drone strikes

New frigate class launched

Ambition for Argentina

Damen lands big MoD order

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hapag-Lloyd signs for bio-LNG supplies

Hoegh presses ahead with ammonia engines

COSCO converts boxboat to methanol

Ship boarded

Eimskip partners with Ernst Russ

YM orders from Hanwha

Centenary

Historic survivor prepared for disposal

Swiss paddlers in difficulty

Major fundraising campaign

Museum Ship of the Year

Rainbow paint

German paddlers get together

Secret signature left in wood

STEAMSHIPS RE UNITED • The historic preserved steamships Shieldhall and Waverley met up in the Solent in September, an event attended by Andrew Cooke.

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT LASTS ALL YEAR!

BIRTH OF THE MEGA CRUISE SHIP Ships exceeding 100,000 gross tons • The size of cruise ships has grown and grown since the industry began its expansion in the 1970s, and while they might now be the norm, cruise ships exceeding 100,000 gross tons were at one time groundbreaking. Allan E. Jordan looks back at the origins of the industry’s growth and the first of the mega cruise ships.

SHIP FOCUS GRAND PRINCESS

SHIP FOCUS QUEEN MARY 2

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.

SAIL TO LNG IN 170 YEARS FISHERS OF BARROW • Profile of the James Fisher group, one of the oldest British shipping companies, and a leader in tank shipping, from its origins with wooden sailing ships and steam to specialised motor coasters,...