CONTRASTING FERRY FORTUNES

Work continues during July at Ferguson Marine on

Contributors this month

Neil McCart Neil McCart is a naval historian

NEWS IN BRIEF

MILESTONE MARKED The 90th anniversary of the launch

Sheerness service moved to Tilbury

FREIGHT FERRY

President Sarmiento reaches 125

ANNIVERSARY

Overboard

FERRY INCIDENT

Manxman reaches her new home

ISLE OF MAN

Ipswich handles a million tonnes

PORT NEWS

Two new lifeboats in two weeks

RESCUE SERVICES

Lightship in the dock

HISTORIC SHIP

Energy density of fuels

In examining the variety of alternative fuels being

The move to methanol

Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk plans to officially name its

Baja Ferries take ro-ro vessel from Europe to Mexico

RO-RO FERRY

Alaska sets cruising records

CRUISE NEWS

Hartlepool hosts

TALL SHIPS

Paddler patron

WAVERLEY

Bright future

DANIEL ADAMSON

NEWS IN BRIEF

LOCHBOISDALE STANDSTILL CalMac cancelled virtually every service to

Passenger carryings improve slowly

BRITTANY FERRIES

CalMac could lose lifeline role to the islands

SCOTTISH ROUTES

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

FOND FAREWELL Following a busy 26 months running

New vessel triggers Channel fleet changes

P&O FERRIES

Busy time for well-travelled vessel

Stean Nordica arriving at Cairnryan on 14 April.

Straitsman and Stavangerfjord

CONDOR FERRIES The purchase by Condor Ferries of

NEWS IN BRIEF

PULLMANTUR The auction of the Pullmantur Cruises brand

Withdrawing from the Great Lakes

AMERICAN QUEEN

Blue Sapphire cruises suspended

SELECTUM BLU

Change of ship

LIFE AT SEA CRUISES

Expansion continues with Viking Saturn

Viking Saturn in Naples prior to her New

French market

CFC

Engine fire in the Wilderness

UNCRUISE

Bankruptcy for troubled Vantage

VANTAGE TRAVEL

NEWS IN BRIEF

ROYAL NAVY The First Sea Lord has announced

Remote working tests prove successful

ROYAL NAVY 

More life in the old timer

NIGERIAN NAVY

Backlog builds

US NAVY The US Navy has been called

Stirling work begins for latest RFA recruit

RFA

Breakdown and recovery

US NAVY The US Navy’s Military Sealift Command

New drive for flagship

SPANISH NAVY

NEWS IN BRIEF

CARBON CAPTURE South Korea’s HMM plans to conduct

Maersk to convert boxboats to methanol

FUTURE FUELS

Rock installation depth record

FALLPIPE VESSEL The flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes, operated

On the rocks

ACCIDENT

Hapag-Lloyd’s three for recycling

CONTAINER SHIPS

World’s largest methanol engine

TECHNOLOGY 

First VLCCs of year at Hound Point

PORT NEWS

Six boxboats for Asiatic

The recently delivered 72,300gt ALS Ceres is the

A2B-online

SHORTSEA Holland’s A2B-online has contracted the Sedef Shipyard

Methanol-ready to dredge the seas

The self-propelled mega suction cutter dredger Krios, which

ONE’s first Megamax boxship

The new 223,200dwt One Innovation has 25 cargo

LNG-powered for CMA CGM

The new LNG-powered CMA CGM Bahia features a

Canada’s next Polar explorer for 2030 ICEBREAKER

Canada’s new conventionally-powered icebreaker, to be delivered in

Another 24,000TEU container giant completed for MSC by Chinese shipyard

CONTAINER SHIP Chinese shipbuilder Hudong- Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group

Next generation windfarmers

Two next-generation wind turbine component transporting vessels are

Methanol-ready for Sweden

A new icebreaker of an Aker ARC 130

National Historic Ships UK flagships 2023

The passenger vessel Lady of the Lake was

International rescuers gather in Rotterdam

The rescue tug Multraship Protector acted as the

BALMORAL

SPOTLIGHT ON LONG TIME FRED. OLSEN FAVOURITE

THE ‘ OLD GREY GHOST’

HMS Albion 1962-64

MARITIME MOSAIC

ERSKINE BRIDGE

SAMSKIP

FROM ICELAND TO THE NETHERLANDS

PICTORIAL

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GERMAN SHIPPING TO THE LEVANT

Malcolm Cranfield describes German shipping companies trading to the Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Atlas-Levante Linie and Deutsche Nah Ost Linie.

CHARTROOM

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The Mexican Navy’s sail training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc

OSCAR WILDE

Irish Ferries’ Star turn

THE EXPANDING IRISH FERRIES FLEET

Isle of Inishmore heading out of Calais Roads

OSCAR WILDE ON BOARD FOR AN IRISH SEA CROSSING

View from the bridge. Passenger cabin. Boylan’s