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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Ships Monthly

60 YEARS OF CHANGES

Contributors this month

Ship-to-ship in Klaipeda

Griffon Marine sells unique BHT-130 craft

Montrose delivered for Targe

Skye welcomes new rescuer

The great escape from the Gulf

Launch of new Damen Windcat

New UKD dredger ordered

NEWS IN BRIEF

Iran seizes MSC container ships in Gulf

Grimaldi’s latest named

Ferguson yard unable to bid

DFDS acquires Stena Vinga

Major upgrade for old timer Nautica

NEWS IN BRIEF

Surprise order

Elegant is back in service

More RCI Icons

NEWS IN BRIEF

Inter-island saga rumbles on

Hibernia Line firms up plans

Infrastructure improvements

CalMac sails into perfect storm

Mersey icon bows out

Scilly Steamship makes progress

France Libré

Long deployments new normal

Mini-carrier floated at Galati

Mine clearance mission gears up

High North vigilance

Ringing the changes

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Pacific Basin cancels bulk carrier order

Wallenius Lines takes control

Heavylift for National Grid

World’s first ethanol sea-going ships

ONE expands

Scorpio makes further sales

Fuel spill shuts Antwerp

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THE ECONOMY TWINS TRANSFORMED Ryndam/Atlas and Maasdam/Stefan Batory 1951–2003 • Holland America Line’s sisterships Ryndam and Maasdam entered service in the early 1950s on transatlantic routes, with Ryndam eventually becoming a Greek-operated cruise vessel and remaining in service until the early 2000s, and Maasdam, renamed Stefan Batory in 1968, serving as Poland’s flagship liner until 1988. Stephen Payne reviews the ships’ careers.

SHIPPING OF SHETLAND • Variety is the spice of shipping using the waters in and around Shetland, at the very northern end of the British Isles. The Port of Lerwick hosts vessels of all kinds, from anchor handlers to cruise ships, and fishing vessels to ferries, as this selection of photographs shows.

MEMORIES OF SCHELDT SHIPPING • In the 1980s photographing ships along the Scheldt River to and from the port of Antwerp consisted mainly of capturing general cargo ships, bulk carriers and crude tankers. Today, the ships that pass the same shipspotting locations are very different, and most are carrying containers. Urbain Ureel recalls some more of the ships that he photographed more than four decades ago.

60 YEARS OF THE ROYAL NAVY • As Ships Monthly marks 60 years since it was first published, we look back at 60 significant Royal Navy ships which have seen service over the past six decades.

MARITIME MOSAIC Battling the North Sea • Even when bad...