BRETAGNE BOWS OUT IN STYLE

The departure of Bretagne and arrival of Saint-Malo

NEWS IN BRIEF

COSTS TRIPLE Reflecting the increasing age of

New eSAIL installation boosts efficiency

A major European operator in shortsea, bulk, general

Steamer’s 100th birthday trip

Built in 1924 for service on the Dart,

Methanol power

CONTAINER SHIP

German coastal tanker ablaze

INCIDENT

Arctic Sunrise visits London

GREENPEACE VESSEL

Ruby goes to Yarmouth

CARGO UNLOADED

Stena marks Futura float-out

NEW FERRIES

Damen delivers

NEWBUILD

Belfast says farewell to FPSO

SEAROSE FPSO

New training ship Patriot State delivered

TRAINING SHIP

Wallenius acquires two ro-ros

FERRY NEWS

End of the road for former Pride of York

GNV Aries, the former Pride of York, at

Targe Towing’s fleet expands

NEW TUGS

Tenders for seven new ferries

CLYDE & HEBRIDES

New Irish rescuer delivered

NEW LIFEBOAT

NEWS IN BRIEF

BERTH DELAY There is still no sign

Sea trials, then Saint-Malo heads west

BRITTANY FERRIES

Balearia’s new Mediterranean connections

BALEARIA

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

THUNDER The 1998-built Austal Auto Express 86

CalMac forced to ring the changes

CALMAC

Mistral moves

DFDS

South Korean freight float-out

CLdN

Green conversion completed

NORLED

Fleet expansion continues

VIKING

New operator in Alaska

MSC

Quiet year on south coast

CRUISE PORT

Final decision on historic liner

SS UNITED STATES

Oasis refitted

ROYAL CARIBBEAN

First drydocking for Adventure

SAGA CRUISES

NEWS IN BRIEF

SEABOURN During a submarine dive on 14

NEWS IN BRIEF

PLAN The first of China’s next class

Clean-up ahead of the blame game

NEW ZEALAND NAVY

‘Awesome Aggie’ launched

ROYAL NAVY

Strike Warrior

NAVAL EXERCISE

US building toward two-class amphibious fleet

US NAVY

FDI frigate firsts for French

FRENCH NAVY

New direction for OPV project

RAN

NEWS IN BRIEF

CARL BUTTNER REBRANDED Lomar Shipping has rebranded

CLdN orders ten new container ships

CONTAINER SHIPS

Essberger orders new tankers

CHEMICAL TANKERS

PIL names two

NEWBUILD

Wind power for two gas carriers

TECHNOLOGY

Sopot baptised

BULKER

Combi Freighters ordered

NEWBUILD

Spliethoff’s orders new ships

MULTIPURPOSE

FAREWELL BRETAGNE

Brittany Ferries’ well-known cruise ferry, which has been a fixture on the south coast for decades, ended her service with the French operator on 3 November.

PICTORIAL

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HERE COMES THE SUN PRINCESS

Princess Cruises’ new flagship

Ships MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC BELFAST CARGO CALLERS

The port of Belfast is visited by a wide variety of cargo ships which bring everything from containers to oil to wind turbine blades to Northern Ireland. It is the fifth busiest commercial port in the UK, with 12,476 commercial shipping movements in 2022. This selec tion of photographs by Roy Thompson shows some of the ships which visited in 2023.

Arran stalwart passes 30 years of service

CALEDONIAN ISLES

Remembering CL AN LINERS

Classic cargo liners f rom the 1930s and 1940s requisitioned for service during World War II

HMS CENTAUR

Workhorse of the Royal Navy’s post-war carrier fleet

THE SHIPBUILDING TR ADITIONS OF MEYER WERFT

Meyer Werft is a tradition-rich shipyard with a long histor y that includes the building of major cruise ships. But the yard has been fighting for its sur vival despite gaining an order for another cruise giant. Patrick Boniface looks back at the company’s long history

A TRAGIC SINKING

THE LOSS OF HM SUBMARINE OXLEY IN 1939

TOLTÉN

Chile’s first motor ship

CRUISING MEMORIES OF FLORIDA IN THE 1960s letter of the month

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