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

SIX DECADES OF FERRIES

Contributors this month

Historic Ships

Unusual experience for cruise passengers

Record boxboat call at Antwerp

CSOV delivered by Ulstein

Historic warship scrapped

Electric ship off to South America

Largest cruise ship caller

Two next-generation vessels ordered

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Wärtsilä propulsion for Grimaldi

Smuggler

Ammonia-powered gas carrier delivered

Ferry sinks

Northern Sea Route season

Largest vehicle carrier calls

NEWS IN BRIEF

CMAL buys ships ahead of time

Green Ship 2.0 in Germany

Scilly milestone

States look to capitalise on change

Bristol Channel ferry link

Rail ferries named for explorers

Tall Ships boost 250th celebrations

Extended repairs for Vasco da Gama

Ready to move

Expanded Med itineraries

NEWS IN BRIEF

The shape of things to come

New Missile Range Vessels

The High North consortium

Germany opts for MEKO frigates

Infrastructure investment

UK enhances cooperation

NEWS IN BRIEF

Joint ice-class newbuild programme started

Moller acquires Ocean Yield

First Shaper class ship delivered

Rotterdam record for CMA CGM

Leak closes Antwerp Dock

Vertom and UAL set to merge

Global orders dual-fuel carriers

ORIANA THE LAST ORIENT LINER • Few ships captured the glamour and ambition of Britain’s post-war ocean travel quite like Oriana. Sleek, modern, and built for longdistance routes, she marked a bold new chapter in liner design and global passenger voyages. Neil McCart traces the career of the famous Orient Liner.

IMPLACABLE CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS • Conrad Waters reviews Britain’s largest World War II aircraft carriers, the Implacable class, and their relatively short careers in the Royal Navy.

60 YEARS OF FERRIES • As Ships Monthly marks 60 years since it was first published, we look back at six decades of ferry operations.

Ferries of the 1960s and 1970s

Ferries of the 1980s

Ferries of the 1990s

Ferries of the 2000s

Ferries of the 2010s

Ferries of the 2020s

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HUDSON THE HERO • Hudson is the only surviving pre-war Dutch seagoing tug, a vessel that served through wartime and postwar commercial operations, before being preserved as a historic ship. She is of cultural and maritime heritage significance and is fully maintained as a rare seagoing example of early 20th-century tug design, as Kees Booster explains.

SHIPS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA • How shipping services in the Singapore region in the 1970s changed when European companies left, recounted by the late Jim...