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About Ships Monthly Ships Monthly magazine 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.

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Commander Ben Ripley

The Type 23 frigate HMS Kent emerged from a multi-million pound upgrade at Rosyth towards the end of 2011 and Patrick Boniface met up...

Fred Olsen: I saw three ships . . .

On 12 June three of Fred. Olsen Cruise Line’s four-vessel fleet were together in Copenhagen on what was thought to be the first occasion...

COASTAL CRUISING: Appeal to bring back Balmoral

A £350,000 appeal has been launched to return the excursion ship Balmoral to service in 2014, the greater part of the money being needed...

NEWBUILD: First Triple-E named

On 14 June Mærsk Line’s first Triple-E vessel was named at a ceremony at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea....

How many boxes can they carry?

SEPTEMBER 2013 ISSUE The number of new container ships entering service recently has been considerable, and every month brings a spate of new boxboats calling...

ROYAL NAVY: Last hurrah for Type 42

The last of the Royal Navy’s venerable Type 42 destroyers was decommissioned on 6 June, shortly after arriving at Portsmouth for the final time....