Ships Monthly

www.shipsmonthly.com EDITORIAL Editor • Nicholas Leach

FERRY CHANGES AHEAD

Barfleur visiting St Peter Port, Guernsey in April 2024.

NEWS IN BRIEF

BALMORAL A 75th birthday celebration for the veteran

National Historic Ships UK award winners

PRESERVATION

Polaris goes round the Cape

NEW GNV FERRY

Keel-laying event

ELECTRIC FERRY

End of the line for Hebridean Isles

CAL MAC

Lightvessel moves to Chatham

HISTORIC SHIP

Inaugural LNG bunkering

BUNKERING VESSEL

Clacton set to go all-weather

NEW LIFEBOAT

Reefer sector continues to decline

REFRIGERATED SHIPS

Fire damaged carrier on the move

CAR CARRIER

Largest cargo caller at Poole

SOUTH COAST

Long-awaited Glen Sannox handed over by Ferguson

FERRY NEWS

Maersk moves to Tilbury

PORT NEWS

Multipurpose collaboration

NEWBUILD

NEWS IN BRIEF

FIRST ORDERS Regency Craft from Rhode Island in

Guernsey go for Brittany Ferries while Jersey opt for DFDS

CHANNEL ISLANDS

Ben-my-Chree on trials in Scottish waters

IOMSPC

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

TRIPS CANCELLED Irish Ferries’ fast craft Dublin Swift

Scottish lay-up for Australian ferry

NEW FERRY

First new ferry for 60 years

RIVER MERSEY

Moby Corse sold

MOBY LINES

Freight ro-ro joins Olsen fleet

CANARY ISLANDS

NCL move ships and change itineraries

FLEET NEWS

Three ships ‘down under’

PRINCESS

Midnatsol back to the coast

HURTIGRUTEN

Treasure is named and enters service

DISNEY

Delays and repositioning

ROYAL CARIBBEAN

NEWS IN BRIEF

PORT CANAVERAL Port Canaveral is officially the

US Navy set to extend careers of older ships

US NAVY

Not so ‘second-rate’ frigates

RAN

Combat supply ship delivered

NETHERLANDS NAVY

Scott to get a new lease of life

ROYAL NAVY

Frigate friends

NORWEGIAN NAVY

Suspended Admirals find new home

INDIAN NAVY

NEWS IN BRIEF

FRENCH NAVY Naval Group has used the

NEWS IN BRIEF

DALI TO BE REPAIRED On 13 November

Rotor sails installed on Oceanus Aurora

CONTAINER SHIPS

Hamburg Express named

NEWBUILD

LNG diverted

RUSSIAN CARGOES

MSC sends its first newbuilds for scrap

CONTAINER SHIPS

Monitoring the maiden voyage

One of the two new Combi Freighters 5000,

Vertom orders four cargo ships

NEWBUILD

Maersk upgrade

METHANOL

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

SHIPSPOTTING

Cement carrier ships are specialised vessels designed to transport bulk cement in a dry, powdery form. These ships are equipped with a unique system that prevents moisture from entering the cargo hold, which is crucial because cement is highly susceptible to clumping and degradation when exposed to water.

TWO DECADES OF SERVICE BY USS RONALD REAGAN

The nuclear-powered Nimitz class aircraft carrier has had an eventful career with the United States Navy over the past two decades. James Hendrie looks back over the operations in which the ship has been involved

CVN-76 DEPLOYMENTS

2003 21 July: USS Ronald Reagan begins

HALCYON DAYS

Passenger shipping in the 1940s and 1950s

LUXURY UNDER SAIL

A few niche cruise companies are catering for people who want environmentally-friendly cruising, and it does not get much greener than sailing cruise ships, many of which offer their guests five-star luxury, as Steve Newman reports.

EASTHAM AND THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL

Eastham Channel, and adjacent QEII oil dock, stand at the entrance to the Manchester Ship Canal, the historic waterway which provides Manchester with a direct link to the Irish Sea, as Malcolm Cranfield explains.

P&O AUSTRALIA SUN SETS ON A HISTORIC BRAND

P&O Australia transported Britons to the Commonwealth and pioneered cruising ‘down under’, but the brand is now being absorbed by Carnival and will disappear. Allan E. Jordan traces the history of P&O and its role in the development of the cruise industry in Australia

Ships MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC TUGS AROUND THE UK

A look back at various tugs in ac tion about five years ago, mainly from West Countr y ports, where they are ac tive in the Bristol Channel assisting vessels in and out of Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. Tugs represented here are from the fleets of SMS Towage, Targe Towing, Holyhead Towing, Multratug Towage & Salvage and Svitzer.

EDWARDIAN EXCELLENCE

THE HISTORIC STEAMSHIP KEEWATIN IN HER NEW HOME IN ONTARIO

CHARTROOM

SHIPS MAIL

MYSTERY SHIP

NOVEMBER’S MYSTERY I recognise the stern of the

CHARTROOM

SHIPS LIBRARY

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Captain Charlotte Høijord Johansen talks to Steve Newman about her career and being master of the Hurtigruten vessel Trollfjord, which was built in 2002 and navigates the rugged and scenic coastlines of Norway and beyond.

North Sea cruise ferry focus

KING SAWAYS