Ships Monthly is the world’s number one shipping magazine and Britain’s best-selling monthly magazine for ship lovers. Read by seafarers and enthusiasts all over the world, it contains a unique mix of shipping and maritime news, broken down by ship type, with sections focussing on ferries, cruise ships, warships, preserved vessels, tugs and cargo ships. The features, written by experts in their field, cover ships old and new, historic shipping companies and their vessels, modern cruise liners and passenger ferries, warships and naval vessels, profiles of docks and harbours in the UK and around the world, and personal accounts of voyages on ships round the world. Every issue contains an interview with the captain of a ship. In addition to the latest happenings in the shipping industry, the Ship of the Month feature goes behind the scenes on a significant ship to give readers an all-round insight into the world of ships and shipping.
Ships Monthly
FERRIES OR CRUISE SHIPS?
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New dredger
HMS Agamemnon begins sea trials
Power for winter navigation
Autoliners takes over for Ford
New hybrid ferries for Sweden-Denmark
COSCO order
Damen unveils feeder design
Fire on ro-ro Blue Carrier 2
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Brittany Ferries introduces Wexford
Dajin HI selects Ulstein
PaxOcean Group selects Ulstein
Norwegian veteran on tour round UK
Final voyage for Batavia
New era dawns in Venice
NEWS IN BRIEF
Solent fares cap on the table
Series of unfortunate events
Lax safety
More cash for late Turkish ferries
Unable to make progress
Holyhead Port takes action
Expansion continues
Clipper back into service
Bleak future for 1960s classic
Sale for former Olympic Explorer
Uncertainty for Gemini
Second ship for Indian waters
NEWS IN BRIEF
Indonesia joins the carrier club
Foreign frigates considered
The North’s blue water ambition
Building of future support ships begins
From Dolphins to Dakar subs
Icebreakers all the rage
NEWS IN BRIEF
St Helena damaged in Strait of Hormuz incident
Maersk orders 26 boxboats
Coaster lost following collision
A2B-online switches to Tilbury
Terra Marique comes to Truro
New cranes for London Gateway
Sanctioned tanker set free
Historic dredger scuttled in South Australian waters
Special 125th cruises planned
World War II gunboat survivor
‘The Danny’ set for new Cheshire home
NEWS IN BRIEF
Replica frigate set to close
DRESDEN PADDLERS • Historic ships in a modern age
WORLD NAVIES OVERVIEW 2026 • Conrad Waters, Editor of Seaforth World Naval Review, provides his annual assessment of the latest global naval developments.
FINNLINES’ SUPERSTARS • As Baltic shipping companies race to build the greenest ship afloat, the Italian-owned company Finnlines is investing in newbuildings, employing the latest technologies to lower emissions and improve efficiency. John Pagni went aboard to assess these impressive new ships.
ON BOARD FINNCANOPUS
THE BIG PICTURE BENVRACKIE
A DAY ON THE SHIP CANAL • Traffic on the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1960s
MARITIME MOSAIC BOXBOATS ON THE SCHELDT • In April 2022 the ports of Zeebrugge and Antwerp merged, but photographing containerships in Zeebrugge is virtually impossible because of security measures. However, boxboats coming to and from Antwerp can easily be seen from any location on the Scheldt, as these photographs by Urbain Ureel show.
SS MONTEREY AMERICAN BEAUTY • Matson’s ‘white ship’ Monterey was one of the...