book of the month

WELCOME

CRUISE INDUSTRY SET FOR 2023 The new cruise

Main engine for LNG boxship

CONTAINER SHIP

Newbuild Eco Italia enters Grimaldi fleet

The 64,575gt ro-ro cargo vessel Eco Italia has

Vision set for route expansion

The 38,772gt Stena Vision entered service in 1987

Braemar to be sold by Olsen

CRUISE SHIP SALE

Color Line streamlines Baltic operations

BALTIC FERRIES

One in, one out for Cardiff company

COASTERS

Converted AHTS enter service

ICEBREAKERS

Matson orders three

LNG BOXSHIPS

NEWS IN BRIEF

SECOND VESSEL Viking Line plans to offer daily

UECC Achieves green power

NEW PCTC

MOL plans new cruise ships

JAPANESE CRUISING

Newbuild for Anthony Veder

LNG CARRIER

Wind deflector reduces fuel consumption

CONTAINER SHIPS

Celebration for Celebration

NEW CRUISE SHIP

Ultramax changes hands

BULKERS

Ellerman’s new service

CONTAINER SHIPS

NEWS IN BRIEF

REVENUE BOOST DFDS Seaways’ passenger and freight services

New ferries for Skye triangle route

CAL MAC

Contrasting passenger and freight results

BRITTANY FERRIES

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

ISLE OF INNISFREE The 1992-built/28,833gt vessel made a

Five more years for DFDS Seaways

NEWHAVEN-DIEPPE

Uber boat heading for the east

RIVER THAMES

Overhauls ongoing

CAL MAC

Midas chartered on the Channel

CHANNEL ISLANDS

NEWS IN BRIEF

ROYAL CARIBBEAN A new terminal for Royal Caribbean

More new ships make their debut

MSC Seascape was delivered in November 2022. MSC

Busy times for ports of call

PORT NEWS With several popular cruiseports in Europe

Joint venture gets a name

Still laid up, Costa Atlantica will eventually join

End of a brand as SuperStar sisters go to breakers

Superstar Libra and Superstar Gemini at Swettenham Pier,

Surprise Global Dream purchase

A first rendering of the new Disney ship.

New ships get christened

The naming ceremony of Havila Castor in Alesund,

NEWS IN BRIEF

ROYAL NAVY Serco has been awarded a £200

Glasgow’s river transit for launch

The future HMS Glasgow is the first RN

A new kind of warfare

UKRAINE CONFLICT In what is perhaps the first

First FDI frigate launched

FRENCH NAVY The first defence and intervention (FDI)

A change of priority

One of two designs shortlisted for the now

Winning tender revealed

ROYAL FLEET AUX The Ministry of Defence has

New carrier calls in UK

USS Gerald R. Ford with escorts during exercise

NEWS IN BRIEF

AMMONIA-READY VLCC Capital Ship Management Corporation of Greece

COSCO orders methanol-fuelled ships

Completed by South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries in

Brostrom sells

Bro Agnes arriving on the Thames, in 2017.

Four new open-tops for Amasus

SHORTSEA Dutch shortsea operator Amasus Shipping BV has

Japanese-built bulker

The 38,234gt geared bulker Jal Kalpavriksh has been

New ships for Wan Hai Lines

South Korea’s Samsung has completed the first two

First of ten

The recently completed ZIM Sammy Ofer is the

Dual-fuel Aframax tankers

China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company (SWSC) has delivered

Remembering Shaw Savill’s Corinthic class

The 15,869grt Ceramic, completed by Cammell Laird, was

PICTORIAL

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PADDLE STEAMER WAVERLEY ENJOYS BUSY SEASON

During the autumn the paddle steamer Waverley made a welcome return to the south coast of England and the Thames, taking thousands of trippers out so they could enjoy a trip down memory lane on the historic vessel.

Ships MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC PASSING CALSHOT

Late summer is a good time to photograph ships, as there is usually good light to produce excellent images. South coastbased photographer Phil Kempsey spent an afternoon at Calshot, where there are fine vantage points for ship photographers and where a variety of ships can be seen heading to or from the busy Port of Southampton, making it a favourite location for spotters.

WHITE STAR’S OLYMPIC CLASS

MYTH AND REALITY

NORWEGIAN PRIMA

NCL’s first new class of cruise ships in a decade

NORWEGIAN PRIMA

Norwegian Prima making her maiden arrival at Southampton

ON BOARD NORWEGIAN PRIMA

Hudson’s restaurant. Penrose Artium. Observation Lounge. ■ Guests

THE GREATEST NAVAL BASE IN THE WORLD

Today, Norfolk Navy Yard is the biggest and greatest naval base in the world, covering an area of over 1,275 acres with about four miles of berths. Patrick Boniface looks back at over 250 years of the yard’s operations, which have been central to the expansion of the US Navy.

REMEMBERING AMERICAN CLASSICS

Retired ship master Kenneth Halsall from Delaware, USA supplied some photographs from both his career and his father’s, encompassing a variety of ships. His father worked as a dockhand at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Kenneth served as a master until his retirement in 2012. Caption information supplied by Jim Shaw.

FERRIES OF MEXICO’S BAJA CALIFORNIA

Jim Shaw examines the ferries, or ‘transbordadores’, that have plied the Sea of Cortez, connecting the long Baja California peninsula with the Mexican mainland.

SHIPSPOOTTING

The Port of Hamburg is the third busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam and Antwerp) and 15th largest in the world. For the shipspotter it is an excellent place to see a wide variety of ships.

On exercise with HMS PRINCE OF WALES

In June 2022 the 65,000-ton Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales sailed from the Spanish port of Rota to conduct training as part of the FLOTEX exercise. Richard M. Jones was on board and wrote a day-by-day account of his time with Britain’s biggest warship.

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Richard Davies, Senior Master of the Fishguard-Rosslare ferry Stena Europe, spoke to Nicholas Leach about his work in the Irish Sea and his long career.

letter of the month

MEMORIES OF THE HARWICH-HOOK ROUTE

MYSTERY SHIP

NOVEMBER’S MYSTERY The mystery ship is the Fairfield