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DECOMMISSIONING: ‘Fighting G’ bows out

Another of the Royal Navy’s old guard has passed into history, with the decommissioning of HMS Gloucester on 30 June. The Type 42 destroyer...

NEW CRUISE SHIP: Fincantieri gains P&O Cruises order

Only a few days after announcing that it would have to shut down two of its shipyards and lay off over 2,500 workers because...

GERMAN NAVY: Long term investment

Production of the first Type 125 frigate for the German Navy got underway on 9 May with a steel-cutting ceremony at the Blohm +...

LIBERTY SHIP: Liberty ship found and lost

There are a number of Liberty ship hulls still afloat, most nearly unrecognisable in their present form. One such is the 1942-built Davy Crockett,...

ICE PATROL: To survey and protect

The Royal Navy has a new interim Antarctic patrol vessel. The leased icebreaker was commissioned HMS Protector on 23 June, a date that coincided...

RESEARCH SHIP: Canadian hybrid

British Columbia’s University of Victoria has been collaborating with BMT Fleet Technology of Ottawa, Canada on the conversion the former Canadian Coast Guard vessel...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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