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    Return Of The Saint
    The Royal Navy’s youngest frigate is back at sea after a comprehensive overhaul lasting four and a half years. HMS St Albans is one of only a few Type 23s to receive the Power Generation Machinery Upgrade, with the replacement of all four diesel gene
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    A View From The Bridge
    I was born into an Estonian family of fishermen, so I started my career when I was a small child, going fishing with my father. My teenage years were spent studying, and during the holidays I went fishing. After ninth grade, I went to college and, af
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    Victorious In The Dock
    The UK’s Submarine Delivery Agency has formally awarded a £560 million contract to Babcock for the overhaul of HMS Victorious, although preliminary work on the Deep Maintenance Period (DMP) began back in May 2023. The boat is the second Vanguard clas
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    Australia To Double The Size Of Its Fleet
    The Australian Government has released its blueprint for a larger and more lethal surface combatant fleet for the Royal Australian Navy, following the recommendations made by the Independent Analysis of the Navy’s Surface Combatant Fleet. As such, th
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    Glen Rosa Hits The Water
    Glen Rosa, the second of two dual-fuel vessels being built at Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow, was launched into the Clyde on Tuesday 9 April. Like sister vessel Glen Sannox, she is being built on behalf of Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) t
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    New Service From Ireland To Rotterdam
    CLdN has chartered two 962TEU-capacity feeder container ships, Andromeda J and Pavo J, from German owner Jungerhans to operate in a new lo-lo service linking Rotterdam with Dublin and Cork. In the Dutch port, the pair will use the Distriport Terminal
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    Contributors This Month
    John Pagni is Australian-born and Helsinki-based. He has contributed to many maritime media, combining a hobby with work in the Baltic and Mediterranean. Thomas Rinaldi is a writer and architectural designer based in New York. He has a long-standing
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    Mystery Ship
    The mystery ship is the oil tanker El Oso, which was completed in September 1921 by Armstrong, Whitworth on the Tyne, and was one of a class of three ships that operated from Peru to UK carrying fuel. The tankers had accommodation for oilfield employ
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    Icon Of The Seas larger Than Life At Sea
    Royal Caribbean Group has a habit of going one bigger in its newbuildings. The latest leviathan to come out of the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland sets another record for being not only the largest cruise ship, but also the largest passenger vessel e
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    Drone Warfare Comes Of Age
    A Ukrainian Magura V5 uncrewed surface vessel (USV) squadron attack has claimed another Black Sea Fleet victim. It was the third time unlucky for the Project 22160 patrol ship RFS Sergei Kotov. The warship, which was only commissioned in July 2022, h
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    Next Issue
    Marking the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 which, codenamed Operation Neptune, was the largest seaborne invasion in the history of naval warfare. BLUE FUNNEL IN DISGUISE • Some of the Ocean Group’s ships which were transferred between the B
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    The Dutch Continue Investing
    The Dutch government is continuing its capital investment in the Koninklijke Marine fleet, with more than €11 billion earmarked to replace submarines, frigates, landing ships and patrol vessels in the next decade. Among the combatants to be introduce
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    Avonmouth 90 Years Ago
    Vaughan-Jenkins lived at Combe Down, a small village on the outskirts of Bath. He was responsible for managing the photographic side of the Locomotive & General Railway Photographs collection from its inception in June 1939 until 1951. He continued t
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    Seatruck Name Disappearing
    One of the ferry world’s most iconic names is on the way out, with Seatruck being replaced by the name of Belgium-headquartered current owners CLdN. They have been expanding services over the past few years, having introduced new services from Santan
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    MSC Set To Resume Chinese Cruising
    With cruising slowly coming back to life in China, MSC Bellissima signalled MSC Cruises’ return to the country after a break of four years when she arrived in Shanghai on 15 March to begin a series of cruises from her new homeport. Initially sailing
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    Autonomous Zero-emission Boxboats
    Belgium’s Zulu Associates plans to have an autonomous, zero-emission container ship in operation on the English Channel by 2026, with full autonomous operation taking place after a year of testing. The 200TEU capacity vessel, which has received Appro
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    Major Boost For Balmoral
    The 688gt twin screw motor vessel, built by John I. Thornycroft in 1949, and now undergoing restoration in Bristol, has been awarded a £248,318 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the greater part of which will go towards the cost of dry-d
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    More Heavylift Consolidation
    Heavylift companies Jumbo Shipping of Holland, SAL Heavy Lift of Germany and Intermarine of the USA have formed the JSI Alliance to market their combined fleet of 50 multipurpose heavylift ships. Intermarine recently expanded its fleet through the lo
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    What Happened To The Bounty?
    Many will remember seeing the film The Bounty, released way back in 1984, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. I was involved in a very small way during the building of the Bounty replica in the late 1970s. She was a wonderful example of the skills of craft
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    Samskip Opens New Service To Oslofjord
    Dutch-headquartered shortsea operator Samskip has launched a new service connecting the UK, Netherlands with Norway. The service calls at Rotterdam and Oslofjord, as well as the British ports of Immingham and Tilbury. In Rotterdam, the service calls
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    Economics Versus Risk
    The targeting of shipping in the Red Sea has continued to escalate, with Houthi rebels in Yemen successfully sinking a merchant vessel for the first time, causing many shipping lines to divert away from transiting the Suez Canal. Warships from the US
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    Editor Nicholas Leach sm.ed@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor Mark Hyde Talk Media Sales www.talkmediasales.co.uk Group Commercial Manager Mason Ponti Telephone 01732 920499 Email mason@talk-media.uk Managing Director Phil Weeden Finance Director Joyce Parker-
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    New Double-enders For BC Ferries
    BC Ferries, Canada’s largest ferry system, has released renderings of its next series of ferries, which are expected to enter service linking British Columbia’s Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver starting in 2029. Designed in cooperation with Norwa
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    ORDER TODAY! COVER STORY Pont-Aven two decades INSIDE Blue Funnel cargo liners, Italian Navy, RNLI at 200 COVER STORY Queen Mary 2 at twenty INSIDE, Icon of the Seas, Ferry tragedies, cruise ship Vista COVER STORY Isle of Innisfree INSIDE, Cruise shi
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    CMA CGM Goes For LNG
    Marseille-headquartered CMA CGM has taken delivery of the 30,901dwt CMA CGM Mermaid as the first in a series of ten LNGfuelled 2,000TEU container feeder ships it is having built by South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. All of the vessels measure 204.2
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    Hms Ajax Victor Of The Battle Of The River Plate
    On Thursday 1 March 1934 a new Royal Navy cruiser was readied for launch at the Vickers Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness. After a short religious ceremony conducted under a somewhat overcast sky by the Cumbrian town’s bishop, the ship was name
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    Book Of the Month
    Life on the Liners William H. Miller Published by Fonthill Media Millview House, Toadsmoor Road, Stroud GL5 2TB office@fonthillmedia.com; www.fonthillmedia.com; tel 01453 886959; price £35 The 1950s to early 1980s was the last period in which passeng
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    Shaper Class Ships Ordered
    Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen has declared options to have China’s Jinling Shipyard build four additional methanol dual-fuel Shaper class 9,300 CEU capacity auto carriers. The ships will be capable of using methanol upon delivery, but will also be am
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    BEHIND THE SCENES ON RMS ST HELENA with Trevor Boult
    Built at Aberdeen, St Helena entered service in November 1990. Until 2002 her routine port of departure from the UK was Cardiff. This was changed to Portland until 2011, after which time the ship only operated in the South Atlantic, with her port cal
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