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

AN ENDURING FASCINATION

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Falls of Clyde reaches end of the road

ESL sells to fund greener ships

Stena Line to take on ‘Ben’

Swift’s five years on Lake

Felixstowe suffers operational disruption

Ships pulled after sanctions

Cook Strait ferry switch

Poor outlook for NZ cruise season

Damen delivers ASD tug Argo

Farewell to Hebridean Isles

Aberdeen’s cruise records

Mixed news for Manx operator

PIL marks naming of fourth

NEWS IN BRIEF

Flexing for the future of ro-ro freight

IOW operator changes hands

Stena’s Baltic buyouts

Scotland’s shipbuilding dilemma

New ‘Whale’ for the Baltic

Faroe flagship back to work

Drydock visits at end of the season

Another delivery

Bad weather affects cruises

NEWS IN BRIEF

Japan’s long-range strike stopgap

Carriers congregate for Konkan

Breaking the ice together

Red letter day for the Silent Service

Kilo stricken

First strike for HMS Somerset

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

HMM’s major newbuild order

Tanker drifts near wind farm

SAL Heavy Lift expands fleet

Rotterdam expands further

IMO delays net zero framework

Antwerp upgrades terminal

Set for further service

MN Pélican A decade of Spanish freight running • As the freight ferry MN Pélican leaves the Poole link to Spain, Kevin Mitchell looks back at the ship’s career since 1999.

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT LASTS ALL YEAR!

WORLD NAVIES OVERVIEW 2025 • Conrad Waters, Editor of Seaforth World Naval Review, provides his periodic assessment of the latest global naval developments.

EUROPEAN CAUSEWAY 25 YEARS OF SERVICE • P&O’s purpose-built ro-pax ferry European Causeway has operated the Cairnryan to Larne service for the past 25 years. Luke Wilson looks at the ship’s career on the North Channel route linking Scotland and Ireland.

ON BOARD EUROPEAN CAUSEWAY

EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR

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.

AN ENDURING LEGACY RMS TITANIC • The legacy of the Titanic endures, and Belfast’s iconic Titanic Museum and the restored tender SS Nomadic provide a tangible reminder today of the world’s most famous ship. The impressive museum tells the story behind the Titanic, its construction and sinking, and the legacy it has left. The last surviving White Star Line vessel can also be seen in the heart of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter.

SHIPS INVOLVED IN THE TITANIC DISASTER • When RMS Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic on...