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

PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

Contributors this month

Busy summer ahead in Outer Hebrides

MSC boxboat runs aground

Return to Finnmarken

NEWS IN BRIEF

Green retrofit project for BAM Shipping

Channel Seaways’ stand-in

Refurbished

Former Falmouth tug broken up

Keel-laying for new OSV

Purus christens battery hybrid CSOV

Veterans take different paths

CLdN launches new service

Freight ship unveiled on the Mersey

New tug for Lithuanian Navy

Sea Shepherd on patrol

Troubled bridge over water

Scottish ferry saga rumbles on

The People’s ferry service

James Joyce makes her return to UK waters

All go on the Western front

Back to business as usual?

Another veteran heads to the breakers

Fleet reduced in size with more sales

End of the road after 45 years

More large ships for MSC fleet

New lease of life for veteran

A watershed moment for undersea ops

Serco secures new contracts

Denmark to increase surveillance

Impressive but going nowhere

Unfortunate

Cuauhtémoc strikes bridge

Container ship appears in garden

Going down in the Arabian Sea

Tanker on fire in Caribbean

Maersk boxboat drifts for weeks

High demand for boxboats

UECC slashes emissions

Peel Ports seeks expansion

NHS-UK Historic flagships for 2025 announced

Clyde steamer hosts royalty

Historic tender gets new timber

The ‘Shetland Bus’ operation remembered

Little Ships’ anniversary with first return to Dunkirk in a decade

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QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 BUILT AT CLYDEBANK • Queen Elizabeth 2 was the last liner built on the Clyde, and possibly the most famous. Bob Wright recounts how the ship inspired his first photography expeditions when he was just a teenager in Glasgow.

FIREMEN’S FAREWELL TO QUEEN ELIZABETH 2

KEY DATES IN THE CAREER OF AN ICONIC LINER

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.

CALLERS AT IPSWICH • The Port of Ipswich, located at the head of the River Orwell, has been a key trading hub on the coast of East Anglia for almost two centuries. Today, operations are overseen by Associated British Ports, and Ipswich has become the UK’s leading grain export port. This selection of photos by Derek Sands shows some visiting ships.

THE BIG PICTURE CITY OF JOHANNESBURG

CORK’S CRUISE CALLERS • The port of Cork has one of the world’s largest natural harbours and is a popular destination for cruise ships, which Patrick Healy has...