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Colin Smith A native of Clydebank, Colin Smith

New E-Flexer makes debut

BALTIC FERRY

Drought affects Rhine shipping

INLAND TRANSPORT

Historic Alaskan ferry sold

AMERICAN FERRY

Old tanker goes for scrap

TANKER

Fjordsteam 2022 attracts historic ships

STEAM EVENT

Rotor powered

CO2 CARRIERS

Collision damages both ships

INCIDENT

Fire on ferry in the Baltic

STENA LINE

NEWS IN BRIEF

CHARTERS Two well-known Baltic super-ferries from the Tallink

Felixstowe port workers walk out in pay dispute

PORT NEWS

Rocket recovery plan fails

FREIGHT FERRY

What next?

PASSENGER SHIPS

Latest Meyer-built cruise ship floated out

NEW CRUISE SHIP

Fully electric

RO-PAX FERRY

Busy summer time on the Firth of Forth with 11 cruise visitors

CRUISE NEWS

NEWS IN BRIEF

ORKNEY LINK FOR SALE John O’Groats Ferries, which

THE BUSY SUMMER AT DOVER

CHANNEL SITUATION

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

PASSENGER LINK DFDS started carrying passengers and cars

Harris residents’ ferry services protest

CALMAC

Green ship delivered

GRIMALDI GROUP

Baltic veteran heads for the Med

MOBY LINES

Second P&O newbuild floated

P&O FERRIES

Grounded

HURTIGRUTEN

Covid update

INDUSTRY NEWS

Another ship bound for Turkey

PULLMANTUR

The end for old expedition ships?

INDUSTRY NEWS

Life after the pandemic for old HAL ship

SEAJETS

World’s largest cruise group sees 24 ships depart

CARNIVAL

NEWS IN BRIEF

AMBASSADOR Ambassador Cruise Line’s second ship, the 1,200-passenger

NEWS IN BRIEF

US NAVY General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard has received

Hypersonic first for destroyers

US NAVY

Queen’s Frigate forward deploys

ROYAL NAVY

Numbers vs sustainability

US NAVY

Ukrainian corvette named

UKRAINIAN NAVY

Westlant carrier goes technical

ROYAL NAVY

NEWS IN BRIEF

WAN HAI’S FINAL FEEDER Taiwan-based Wan Hai Lines

Maersk moves from Tilbury to Southampton

CONTAINER SHIP

Navios combines its fleets

COMBI FREIGHTERS

TORM takes control

TANKERS

Hapag-Lloyd begins fleet improvement

COMPANY NEWS

Feedership capsizes

INCIDENT

The next ‘World’s largest’

CONTAINER SHIPS

Rotor for combination carrier

TECHNOLOGY

A look back as HAPAG celebrates 175 years

Jim Shaw marks the 175th anniversary of the establishment of HAPAG with a look at some of the company’s ‘university’ ships.

WAVERLEY

CELEBRATING THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF THE PADDLE STEAMER

PICTORIAL

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REACHING THE ZENITH

Built 30 years ago, the medium-size cruise ship Zenith has reached the end of her days and, under the name TSM Singapore, is heading for Vietnam breakers to become another victim of the post-Covid era, as Edward Fordson relates.

AURORA BOTNIA

Green dream newbuild debuts on Gulf of Bothnia

SHIPS OF BEAUTY

Marine photographer Steve Belasco selects his personal favourite images captured in recent years on his home waters of Portland and Weymouth.

AN INDIAN OCEAN CROSSING

Jim Shaw describes a voyage he took on the Shipping Corporation of India’s State of Haryana across the Indian Ocean from Mombasa to Bombay in 1970.

ACQUIRING ARTEFACTS AT AUCTION

The auction house Charles Miller Ltd specialises in nautical, maritime and shipping antiques, selling many impressive and interesting items.

COUNTY CLASS CRUISERS

Conrad Waters provides a photographic review of the Royal Navy’s famous County class ships, an impressive heavy cruiser design.

Maritime MOSAIC

Naval visitors

THE STORY OF A WELL-KNOWN CARGO SHIP

CAXTON

SHIPS MAIL

THE LADIES LOOK GOOD

MYSTERY SHIP

AUGUST’S MYSTERY The August mystery ship is Covadonga

SHIPS LIBRARY

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