Ships Monthly

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

CARRY ON CRUISING

Contributors this month

Fully electric

Ulstein Verft delivers Nexans Electra

Sailing on for half a century

Delivered to Carisbrooke

Ellerman boosts UK-Poland links

German cruise numbers rise

Stena recognised with Award

NEWS IN BRIEF

New ice breakers on the way

Suez transit for new LNG giant

Olympic conversion completed

North Star’s four-vessel deal

Damen delivers new service vessel

Successful dry-docking

Boxboat to be dismantled

Most powerful electric tugs

NEWS IN BRIEF

New floating bridge for Åland link

Baleària in the fast lane

Summer options

Hibernia Line gets under way

Electric ferry shocked

Tasmania’s ongoing ferry fiasco

Virus outbreak in the headlines

Final season

Production line continues

NEWS IN BRIEF

Babcock takes a hit

Japanese tech in demand

Trump battleship goes nuclear

Enterprise on the move

Struggling to cope

French design for Sweden

NEWS IN BRIEF

Spain’s record drugs seizure

Cory’s newbuild barges delivered

Fast Lines names two

Vroon sells Livestock Express

A2B online boosts barge frequency

Coaster sinks in the Aegean

Turkish tanker taken on

Collision off Dutch coast

Clyde Puffer gets funding

Flagships 2026

Swedish gentleman’s yacht

Transatlantic training ship

Paddler is ready for another season

Summer trips

Lausanne Shipyard open days

New hope for Rhine cruiser

The Hormuz six and the ‘Great Escape’ • Alan Moorhouse assesses the effect of the Iran conflict on the cruise industry with a focus on the ‘Hormuz Six’, the six cruise ships which found themselves blockaded in the Persian Gulf.

The six cruise ships trapped in the Gulf

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MEDIA AND FLAVIA TOTAL TRANSFORMATION • Media and Flavia embodied Cunard’s post-war transition from traditional cargo-passenger liners to more flexible, modern passenger ships. Media represented the line’s first new post-World War II cargo-passenger design, and Flavia symbolised her later reinvention as a full emigrant and cruise vessel, as Ian Sebire explains.

SOLENT SHIPPING… past the Sconce • Ships visiting the Solent’s ports often use the western Solent and pass through the Hurst Narrows, between Fort Victoria and Hurst Point. Andrew Cooke’s photographs show some of the variety of ships using this route.

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.

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