The first of three next-generation warships from the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Alliance has successfully completed sea trials off the coast of South Australia. The trials included testing the ship’s hull, propulsion and navigation systems. HMAS Hobart was built at…
Incat announced on 7 October 2016 that it has been selected by Virtu Ferries of Malta to design and build a 110m vehicle passenger (RoPax) ferry. Robert Clifford, Chairman of Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania, said: ‘Virtu Ferries is among the…
Vision of The Fjords, a futuristic carbon fibre tourist vessel operated by The Fjords DA, has won the coveted Ship of the Year 2016 accolade at SMM in Hamburg. The 40m long, 399-passenger capacity hybrid craft, which was completed by…
On 6 September 2016 Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest leisure travel company, signed a memorandum of agreement with leading German and Finnish shipbuilders Meyer Werft and Meyer Turku to deliver a next-generation cruise ship for P&O Cruises, the…
HMS President Preservation Trust, the charity that owns HMS President 1918 (“The President”), London’s last remaining World War I ship, and one of only three left, has been refused Lottery funding of £330,000 to secure its future. During World War…
Just out is the latest Ships Illustrated, No.9: Maritime Britain, by well-known photographer and Ships Monthly contributor Gary Davies. This outstanding new book provides a pictorial record of shipping in and around the waters of Great Britain over the last quarter of a century. It…
The naming ceremony of the new-generation icebreaker built at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard took place on 11 December 2015. A bottle of champagne was broken against the hull of the ship during the event. Paula Risikko, Second Deputy Speaker of the Finnish Parliament,…
The first of a series of eight 27,500m3 capacity multi-gas Dragon class vessels being built by the Sino-Pacific yard in China for Denmark’s Evergas, the 20,400dwt JS Ineos Insight, has entered service as the world’s first ocean-going ethane-powered ship. Once…
Wind turbines and wind farm development continue to be big business in the UK, with the Port of Inverness the latest harbour to get involved, welcoming its inaugural cargo of wind turbines in early October 2012. Arriving in two ships…
The wind turbine installation vessel MPI Adventure has been commissioned by Narec, the National Renewable Energy Centre, to collect a 750-tonne Met Mast fitted with the latest technologies for measuring wind resource and collecting marine conditions and marine life data.…