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CMA CGM Benjamin New role for Franklin 2 at Los Island Escape Angeles. EX-CRUISE SHIP Retired in late October 2015 after 12 years of Western Mediterranean summer cruise operations, the former Island Escape was advertised in February by Florida-based Floating Accommodations as available for service as an accommodation facility. Now named Ocean Gala following a spell in dry dock at the Damen Yard in Brest, , the 40,132gt vessel, built at Nantes in 1982 as cruise ferry Scandinavia to launch DFDS’s Scandinavian World Cruises operation out of New York, was first linked with a joint UN-RC role in . Offering 1,863 berths in 756 cabins, Ocean Gala then moved to Rotterdam Big boxboats come to USA before a one-year contract to the Swedish Migration Board to operate as Chinese-built containership and the her on the transpacific trade for two CONTAINER SHIP a refugee reception and hotel ship at final vessel in a series of six ultra-large round voyages, with a first call at the a charter rate of €84,000 per day. SHe On 19 February a major milestone Explorer class ships built for the French US ports of Los Angeles and Oakland became Viking Serenade, and owners was reached in US port history when Line CMA CGM. The 178,228gt vessel over Christmas. The company are RCCL and UK tour operator First Choice the first 18,000TEU vessel made measures 399m by 54m. Her declared looking to develop the routes between set up Island Cruises, with the vessel her inaugural visit to the west coast capacity of 17,859TEU includes 1,500 the United States, the and based at Palma, Majorca from 2003. port of Long Beach. Built in 2015 by -controlled units. Europe. After around 1,200 boxes had Thomson secured ownership in 2008, Chinese shipbuilder Jiangnan To date all box ships of this size have been moved, the ship left Long Beach with the Island Cruises name retained Changxin Heavy Industry, CMA CGM been deployed on the Asia-Europe on 24 February, and made further calls but switched to a single brand. RP Benjamin Franklin is the largest trades, but CMA CGM have deployed at Oakland and Seattle. AM New ship for South Seas Survey ship for Taiwan Measuring 126m (413ft) COMBO SHIP by 22m (72ft), the 3,200dwt China’s Huanghai Shipbuilding has combination ship features a mixed recently delivered the custom-built accommodation plan featuring 32 passenger/cargo vessel Aranui suites, 31 superior deluxe cabins 5 to Tahiti-based Compagnie and 40 staterooms for tourist travel, Polynesienne de Transport Maritime and five dormitories plus deck (CPTM) for operation among the space for inter-island passengers. In islands of the South Pacific.She addition, the 7,500gt vessel carries was launched in February 2015 and two rotating deck cranes forward is scheduled to make her maiden and slots for up to 80 containers. voyages during 2016 from Tahiti Passenger fares range from $2,781 Island in French Polynesia to the in dormitory space to $8,564 in the most remote archipelago in the most luxurious suite for a 14-day trip world, the Marquesas Islands. amongst the islands. JS Above To have accommodation for 43 persons, including scientists and crew, Taiwan’s new oceanographic research vessel is being designed in the Netherlands for in . OSD

stern-mounted ‘A’ Frame and two deck OCEANOGRAPHIC cranes, as well as a side ‘A’ Frame with Taiwan has entered into a contract with umbilical winch for remotely operated Holland’s Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) vehicle (ROV) deployment. for the design of a 249ft (76m) by 52ft For core sampling, the vessel will be (16m) research vessel that will be built fitted with a MEBO200 seabed drilling by Vietnam’s Triyards Shipyard for the rig which can conduct core drilling Taiwanese Ocean Research Institute down to 200m below the sea floor. (TORI). The new ship is to be delivered Propulsion and station-keeping will be in August 2017 and will be used for provided by a diesel-electric system terrain surveying, mapping, seismic powering two main azimuth thrusters Above One of the few combi-passenger/cargo vessels to be built for some time, pattern detection and core sampling. and two bow tunnel thrusters to give a the Chinese-built Aranui 5 will sail among the islands of French Polynesia. CPTM For this work she will be fitted with a DP-1 dynamic position notation. JS

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Calypso to WATERFRONT Aground on the Bramble Bank be returned APL Vanda departs on 16 to service February aided by two local tugs. CHRIS BROOKS EXPEDITION SHIP

French explorer ’s [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com well-known expedition ship Calypso is expected to be operational again later this year following reconstruction and re-engining at the Piriou shipyard in Concarneau, France. The wooden- hulled former Royal Navy 294gt minesweeper had been converted into a ferry when Cousteau discovered the ship at in 1950. With  nancial backing from Loel Guinness and other After an extended stay in the Calshot lifeboat, and within two private parties, Cousteau rebuilt GROUNDING Southampton, she departed on 16 hours she was re› oated, before being the vessel and set out on his  rst On the evening of 13 February February bound for Hamburg. She escorted into Southampton, where expedition in 1951. JS the 151,630gt - › agged was escorted as far as the Nab Tower the cargo was unloaded. container ship APL Vanda ran aground by the Solent Towage tug Lomax, An investigation was carried out to on the Brambles Bank in the Solent and as far as the Prince Consort buoy determine what caused her to lose after a complete loss of power. She (near where the incident happened) power, while owners Neptune Orient was re› oated a couple of hours later by the Svitzer tug Svitzer Eston. Lines (NOL) said there was no major on a rising with the assistance The 268m ship was due to arrive damage sustained to her. of eight local tugs,  ve from in Southampton following a passage The incident comes 13 months Southampton (Svitzer Eston, Svitzer from , but a mechanical issue after the 51,000gt car carrier Hoegh Bargate, Svitzer Ferriby, Svitzer Alma triggered a loss of power, leading to a Osaka was also beached on Brambles and Svitzer Sarah) and three from controlled manoeuvre to deliberately Bank after listing when leaving Solent Towage’s base at Fawley (Apex, beach the ship on the sand. Eight port. APL’s ships regularly call at ABOVE Jacques Cousteau’s famous Lomax and Phenix). tugs were sent to assist, along with Southampton’s container terminal. expedition ship Calypso is to be returned to service. COUSTEAU SOCIETY Dutch Navy’s new tug Biting through the ice older vessels do not have suf cient HYBRID TUG BOAT power to handle new ships such The  rst of a series of three ASD as HNLMS Karel Doorman, HNLMS TUGs 2810 Hybrid was navigated Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt. into the Den Helder harbour by the Furthermore, the old vessels still make Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) on use of propellers with rudders with a 20 February. The hybrid tug, named restricted manoeuvrability. Noordzee, is 29m in length and is the The state-of-the-art ASD TUG 2810  rst standard hybrid tug supplied by Hybrid is one of Damen’s standard tugs Damen that the RNLN will employ. and has a hybrid propulsion system The contract for the three ASD with two rudder propeller units for tugs is the of a cooperative optimum manoeuvrability, also being partnership between Damen and the able to operate on full electric power RNLN. The RNLN has four conventional by means of a set of batteries and tugs in Den Helder. However, these diesel-electric on the generator set.

ABOVE The ice-strengthened Nordic Oshima is one of four 76,180dwt Panamax The new hybrid tug Noordzee bulk carriers built in Japan specifically for Arctic employment. NBC has, when full pull is required handymax bulker Nordic Barents and both main diesel engines BULK CARRIERS carried a cargo of iron ore from are used, a maximum bollard Not really an icebreaker but certainly to China. Three years later pull of 60 tonnes. DAMEN willing to chew up a little ice is the it sent its 75,600dwt Nordic Orion, bulk carrier Nordic Oshima (41,071gt), which was launched in 2011, across which is operated by Denmark’s the top of to deliver a Nordic Bulk Carriers and is the  rst of cargo of coal to Finland, the  rst four similar ice-strengthened ships use of the Northwest Passage by a which have been built in Japan. commercial cargo ship. Each of the Nordic Bulk  rst sent a commercial Nordic Oshima type vessels, designed vessel across the Northeast for Arctic trading, carry the highest Passage in 2010 when its 43,700dwt commercial ice class 1A notation. JS

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WATERFRONT Repairing the damage New Chinese shipping giant due to the downturn in the world Excluding chartered vessels, its INDUSTRY NEWS economy and ’ erce competition ‘ eet is double that of Maersk and DREDGER On 19 February, at a ceremony held from larger foreign rivals in the MOL together. Xu Lirong, chairman of On 30 December 2015 the UK was hit in Shanghai, a new Chinese shipping container sector, where the top three China Shipping, wil be the chairman of

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ABOVE The tug Dutch Pearl arrives at Aberdeen on 14 February towing the backhoe dredger Manu Pekka to make a start on clearing debris from berths that were rendered unworkable due to the storms on 30 December 2015. Crane vessel sets record Ionic expanding  eet 380 people, and a transit speed of HEAVY LIFT 12 knots, the Chinese newbuilding China’s Zhenhua Heavy Industries will be operated by Chanxiang-based (ZPMC) has completed the 297.6m ZPMC-OTL Marine Contractors, a joint (976.4ft) by 58m (190ft) Zhen Hua 30 venture between ZPMC Offshore as the world’s largest self-propelled Services Group and OffshoreTech, single-boom crane vessel, which which has a ‘ eet of two heavylift ships, achieved a record lift of 13,200 23 transportation vessels, ’ ve shearleg metric tons during its commissioning cranes, 18 tugs, 22 barges and three trials. Having accommodation for jack-up barges. JS

The new self-propelled single boom crane vessel Zhen Hua 30 set a lifting ABOVE The 56,025dwt bulker Ionic Smyrni, completed in Japan in 2013, has record of 13,200 metric tons been joined in the Ionic Shipping fleet by the 60,425dwt Ionic United, both built during its commissioning by Mitsui & Shipbuilding. IONIC SHIPPING trials in China. ZPMC COMPANY NEWS of vessels within its growing ‘ eet, including three Handysize of about Ionic Shipping of Greece took delivery 34,000dwt, three Supramax of about of its 11th vessel, the 60,425dwt 56,000dwt, one Ultramax of about bulker Ionic United, from Japan’s 60,000dwt and four Kamsarmax of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding about 82,000dwt. (MES) during January. The 199.9m by The company was founded in 32.2m bulk carrier is a slightly larger early 2013 and has all of its vessels sister to the 56,025dwt Ionic Smyrni, deployed on ’ xed-term charters to which was completed by Mitsui three such companies as Louis Dreyfus, years ago. Ionic now has four sizes Cargill, Bunge and Vitol. JS

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BRIEF NEWS P&O’s partnership boost TERMINALS MOVE • Southamp- ton councillors have approved CLdN’s Victorine, pictured in plans to move the city’s Cobelfret colours, is now linking Red Funnel and Hythe Ferry Zeebrugge with the Danish port terminals to the Eastern of Hirtshals. Docks to make way for a £450 million Royal Pier Waterfront development, with over 700 apartments, 50 shops, a 250- bed hotel and a casino. A new terminal and a four-storey car park will be built on a 7.8 hectare site within the Eastern Docks and including Trafalgar Dry Dock. This will handle Red Funnel car ferry services to East Cowes and the Red Jet fast passenger link with West Cowes, as well as crossings to Hythe. to Gothenburg, Sweden. Commercial Zeebrugge and Hirtshals using the NORTH SEA Director Janette Bell commented: ro-ro ship Victorine (2000/23,987gt), NEW DIRECTION • Visentini are Major operators continue to respond ‘The initial demand for this new which brings the possibility for onward returning to shipbuilding, but to growing demand for freight service shows there is a growing connections from the northern in China rather than at the shipments to and from Scandinavia, market for the export and import of Danish port to the main Norwegian Italian yard in Donada, near with P&O Ferries joining with goods from Scandinavia to Britain by cargo hubs of Larvik, Kristiansand, , that turned out more SOL Continent Line to run a service sea. Our partnership with SOL Line Langesund, Stavanger and Bergen in than 20 ro-pax ferries between which has carried over 2,000 units in means customers only have to make co-operation with Fjord Line and Color 1997 and 2014. An order for the its first eight months. As part of the one call to arrange their shipments.’ Line. The weekly trip to Hirtshals, on construction of one ro-ro ship service, P&O North Sea customers are CLdN (Compagnie Luxembourgeoise which both containers and trailers are for delivery in 2018 (with an able to send freight to Zeebrugge for de Navigation) have also opened carried, began on 14 February, and option for a second) has been onward connection via SOL’s service a weekly ro-ro service between reached Hirtshals two days later. confirmed under a deal set up by Unitramp Shipbrokers.

FERRY PLAN • Proposals have Viking Line upgrading most of fleet been submitted for a large new receives new restaurants and bars, with including -Tallinn, is now on THE BALTIC ferry to link the Danish island 100 cabins refurbished with double the short Kapellskar-Mariehamn run, of Laeso with the mainland Viking Line is spending the equivalent beds following similar work to Helsinki and has been registered in the Åland port of Frederikshavn. It will of €8 million to upgrade spas, route partner Mariella last year. Islands since 2014. cost around DKK300 million and restaurants and cabins on Baltic routes Gabriella will also be the last of have space for 600 passengers ferries Rosella (Kapellskar-Mariehamn), the Viking Line ferries to have the and 180 cars. The plan is to use Viking Grace (-Turku), distinctive white wave lines painted one large ferry instead of the Amorella (Stockholm-Turku) and on the red hull. In contrast to the current two smaller vessels. Gabriella (Stockholm-Helsinki). LNG-powered Viking Grace, introduced Delivery is in 2019, with one of Turku-route pair Viking Grace and in 2013, Rosella is the longest-serving the current route pair, Margrete Amorella dry-docked in turn at the Viking ship, delivered to then group Laeso, to be kept as reserve Turku Repair Yard in Naantali, with partner SF Line from the Wärtsilä Yard vessel and the other sold. Gabriella deputising before going for in Turku in May 1980. She has appeared ABOVE Viking Grace departing the her own refit early in April. Gabriella on most of the company’s routes, Swedish capital. RUSSELL PLUMMER

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JETFERRY 1 • The last vessel to CODRINGTON ARROW • The BALEARIA ORDER • A contract for remain in lay-up from the Greek 120-passenger ferry, long laid up an LNG-powered ro-pax ferry, with GA Ferries fleet of Gerasimos in Southampton after Caribbean an option for a sister vessel, has Agoudimos, which failed in 2009, service between Montserrat and been signed by Spanish operator has left Eleusis, near , Antigua, has been sold to Elding Balearia with the La Naval Yard under tow and bound for Turkish for whale-watching trips from in Bilbao. The deal is worth €175 breakers at Aliaga. Completed Akureyri in . Built in 1988, million, with the first ship, powered NOVA STAR • The Singapore- in Norway by Mjellem & Karlsen she called at Holyhead (pictured) by three dual-fuel engines giving built ferry left the Bahamas in 1995, with a capacity for 600 while travelling to Iceland. a speed of 23 knots, expected to for Algeciras in January and is passengers and 160 cars, the be delivered in 2019. The craft will chartered, with a one-year option, 4,423gt monohull fast craft carry 1,600 passengers, with 70 by Morocco’s Inter Shipping for started life as Berlin Express. Her per cent in cabins and the rest in service between the Spanish port sistership, Jetliner (1996/4,563gt), ergonomic seats, as well as having and Tanger Med. Nova Star has was bought by the Sri Lanka Navy 3,300 lane metres of garage deck lately been in Nova Scotia. during 2009. taking 340 cars.

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Côte des Dunes debuts a day late New role for WATERFRONT Craigside Côte des Dunes, arriving in Dover on 10 February, showing US MILITARY off the new DFDS livery. DFDS British-flagged ro-ro ferryCraigside was laid down in 2008 and operated in

commercial service for Maersk in North [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com Sea and Mediterranean trades, and with charters for LD Lines, DFDS, Visemar and Grimaldi, before a final DFDS stint on the Killingholme-Vlaardingen route in 2012-13. Now the 29,429gt vessel, part of a series of eight from the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark, is being converted into a specialised maritime support vessel for the United States Sealift Military Command. Work began at Mobile in mid-2014 to equip Craigside to carry 50 crew and up to 160 vessel and mission operation support crew, together with up to 207 military personnel. Existing cargo spaces and access ramps were retained, so the vessel was able to house and Rodin, is on charter from Eurotunnel based maritime interior specialist support the launch, recovery, refuelling ENGLISH CHANNEL and was joined by near sister Côtes des Trimline, who simultaneously carried and re-supply of small craft. DFDS brought Côte des Dunes into Flandres, the former Berlioz, from 23 out work on the two vessels in Dunkirk A large flight deck will be capable service between Calais and Dover on 10 February. Wearing the new style DFDS using 5,500m2 of Amtico flooring, of accommodating simultaneous February, a day later than planned, after livery, the pair join Calais Seaways on an 4,500m2 of carpet and 1,000m2 of launch/recovery of various helicopters severe weather delayed completion of augmented three-ship service to Dover, tiling, with 2,470 new chairs and sofas with enclosed hangar space. Originally a refit at the Damen yard in Dunkirk. boosting sailings to up to 30 a day. brought in, along with 790 dining and offering 3,740 lane metres of freight The former SeaFrance Rodin, which last The two vessels have been coffee tables. Trimline also installed capacity, Craigside is expected to be crossed the Channel as MyFerryLink’s extensively refitted by Southampton- 21,300m of electrical and data cable. employed as a self-sufficient barracks.

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MEGASTAR • The new Tallink LNG WASA EXPRESS • The long-serving BIRGER JARL • After the fast ferry due for delivery in ferry built in 1981, which spent nine successful introduction of 2017 is to be named Megastar. years on the Ramsgate-Dunkirk three-hour lunch cruises in the The announcement of the name service as Sally Star until 1997, has Stockholm Archipelago last was made before a keel-laying revived the Baltic’s most northerly year, the 1953-built former ferry, ceremony at the Meyer Yard in route between , Sweden and steam-powered until 1982, will Turku, Finland on 9 February. To Umea, Finland, which has seen be repeating the trips most operate on the Helsinki-Tallinn growth every year since 2013. weekends from 30 April through MEDITERRANEE • The 1989-built/ shuttle, the 212m/49,000gt vessel to 18 December 2016. The rest of 30,985gt former SNCM ferry, will have a service speed of 27 the time sees the 369-bed vessel originally named Danielle Casanova, knots. Tallink owns 17 vessels continuing as the Anedin Hostel is expected to become the first on six different routes, employs at Stagsgarden, Stockholm, vessel to emerge in the livery 7,000 people, and their ships following a short move in spring of new Corsica service provider annually handle up to nine million 2015 from her former Skeppsbron Marittima Ferries. passengers. berth in the Swedish capital.

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WAT BRIEF NEWS Longest New Zealand season Windstar • Following the ER grounding of Star Pride on 21 F

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ONT been cancelled until the one commencing on 9 April. www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 • e > [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com Carnival Corporation • Carnival confirmed four new ship orders with Fincantieri. There will be a fourth ship in the series, Costa will build two 135,000gt ships for the new Costa Asia brand and, surprisingly, P&O will get its first new ship. Pacific Pearl will swap the backdrop of • For much the Harbour Bridge for that of of 2015 Costa replaced calls Auckland this year. William Mayes in with visits to Malta and Greece. The perception of 2015) from Auckland, New Zealand, and in 1997 became P&O Cruises’ third P&O Cruises continued security issues has where she arrived on 3 February. Arcadia, based in Southampton. She led to all of Costa neoRiviera’s With the recent expansion of the P&O She will operate the company’s was the first ship to join P&O’s venture Istanbul calls being rerouted Cruises Australia fleet from three to longest programme of cruises from into casual resort-style cruising in 2003, to Rhodes instead. Aida five ships, there is greater scope to the port where she was renamed when she became Ocean Village. The Cruises, which is under Costa provide new home ports and more in 2010, when she was transferred 63,786gt ship’s arrival in Auckland was management, has cancelled its varied itineraries. As a result, the to P&O Australia at the time of the timed to coincide with a major Rugby Turkish calls for 2016. company’s oldest ship, Pacific Pearl, closure of Ocean Village. Built as Sitmar League event. Her itineraries include has been repositioned to operate a Fairmajesty, she was delivered in 1989, a complete circumnavigation of New Louis Cruises • The Louis- series of 20 cruises (up from ten in after the P&O takeover, as Star Princess Zealand and cruises to the South Pacific. owned Thomson Spirit (1983/33,930gt) will be dry- docked in Malta this year after a decision by the company to What went wrong with AIDA newbuilds? move away from ship repair cruise ships since Diamond and Sapphire 2011) changes in personnel were made, Mitsubishi HI facilities in Syros and Elefsis. Princess were delivered in 2004. including bringing in staff from overseas. Following her maintenance, she At a recent press conference, Mitsubishi Technology has moved forward The minor fires in January aboard will return to Thomson for her Heavy Industry’s President and CEO rather more than MHI had anticipated Aidaprima were not thought to have regular summer season. talked about the problems associated from the time of the Princess ships, delayed the final stages of fitting out with the construction of the two new which were themselves not without the ship, but there were suggestions in Grand Circle • When Tere ships for Aida Cruises, the first of which, problems during construction. Another the media that they could have been Moana (1988/3,504gt), recently Aidaprima has just been delivered, difficulty with the Aida ships was that caused by arson. The second currently purchased from Paul Gauguin a year late. The company has so far they were prototypes, whereas the unnamed ship was due for delivery in Cruises, enters service for booked losses amounting to $1.7 billion previous ships had been modifications April 2016, but that is now also likely to Grand Circle later this year, she on an original contract price of $1.3 to largely existing designs. The design slip by up to a year. By early February will be renamed Clio. billion, and that is unlikely to be the concept took longer than anticipated, an Aida crew was aboard Aidaprima, final figure. MHI has not built any large and by 2013 (the ships were ordered in ready to bring the ship to Europe. A good year in Freeport and Jewel of the Seas will follow later Grand Bahama SY in the year. P&O Cruises’ Adonia, NCL’s The Grand Bahama Shipyard at Norwegian Dawn, Celebrity’s Celebrity Freeport, Grand Bahama is looking Summit, ’ forward to a good year for cruise ship and MSC Cruises’ MSC Divina will all overhauls in 2016, with 20 ships already receive attention at the yard, while booked. The first vessel to receive Carnival have seven ships scheduled for attention was Holland America Line’s maintenance: Carnival Fantasy, Liberty, Maasdam, with work including the Magic, Splendor, Sunshine, Triumph fitting of exhaust scrubbers. Other and Valor. Last but not least, Azamara Holland America ships scheduled to Journey arrived for a major internal arrive are Veendam and Prinsendam. makeover in mid-January. The work carried out on Royal The Grand Bahama Shipyard was Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas included established in 2003 and is the largest the installation of additional cabins commercial ship repair facility on the and a new waterpark. She also had east coast of the Americas, with three scrubbers fitted. Adventure of the Seas floating dry docks and 1,000m of quays. ABOVE An aerial view of the Grand Bahama shipyard. Grand Bahama Shipyard

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PRINCESS CRUISES At the ‘ oating-out ceremony at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard on 8 February, Princess Cruises unveiled a new livery for the next addition to the ‘ eet, . The Seawitch funnel logo, which  rst appeared in 1968, has been adapted to create a new piece of hull art on the new ship’s bow. This new livery will be rolled out across the ‘ eet, although that process is likely to take several years. Majestic Princess has been designed as the  rst of the company’s ships to serve the Chinese market from delivery, and thus may never be seen in the west once delivered in spring 2017. The 143,000gt ship has a capacity Aidacara was freshened of 3,560 passengers. She will be the up in Cadiz. fourth ship in the Royal Princess series (the third is P&O Cruises’ Britannia) and 20th anniversary makeover will operate from Shanghai. The  rst ship was renamed AIDAcara carpet and major works to the Pool AIDA CRUISES in 2001 in anticipation of the arrival Bar and the Anytime Bar. Aidacara, at In 1996 Deutsche Seereederei took of the next new ship. The company 38,557gt and with a passenger capacity delivery of its  rst purpose-built cruise was then under the ownership of P&O of around 1,200, is both the smallest ship, Aida. Now, what became Aida Princess Cruises. With the ship now and oldest unit in the ‘ eet, which now Cruises is Germany’s largest operator approaching her 20th birthday, she has numbers ten ships, with a further four of cruise ships, and part of the mighty just emerged from a thorough internal on order. The refurbishment work was ABOVE Majestic Princess brings a new Carnival Corporation & plc. re t that included 1,800m2 of new carried out at the Navantia shipyard. livery for Princess. PRINCESS CRUISES Damaged A  nal reprieve for United States?

in storm How United States could look, under the Crystal ROYAL CARIBBEAN plan. CRYSTAL CRUISES There was widespread criticism of the decision to take Anthem of the Seas out of Bayonne on 6 February in view of the atrocious weather that she encountered, but, to be fair to the captain, the forecasts were for winds of up to 60mph, not the 125mph that was encountered the following day. The 168,666gt ship hove to with her head into the wind for several hours, and once it was safe to do so she returned to Bayonne with some minor She came back to the USA in 1996 costs. Several schemes were explored, CRYSTAL CRUISES damage and one inoperative Azipod. and has since then remained tied but time was running out and bids Following inspection and repairs, the The fate of the remains of what was up, largely unloved. But as a result were sought from shipbreakers. ship sailed again on 13 February. once the world’s fastest of the work of the SS United States Then, in February 2016, the ship was seemed sealed. Laid up at Newport Preservation Society, she was placed thrown a last lifeline by Crystal Cruises, News in 1969, after just 17 years on the National Register of Historic who agreed to pay the berthing costs in service, United States was later Places. NCL came back on the scene in Philadelphia for nine months while moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where she in 2003, but after six years she was conducting another feasibility study remained until 1993. When purchased offered for sale again, this time by on returning the (heavily rebuilt) ship by Turkish interests in the 1990s, Star Cruises, part owner of NCL, and to commercial service. In the unlikely she was towed to Turkey, and later now full owner of the ship. In 2011 event that United States is given this Ukraine, to have all of the asbestos she was acquired by the SS United  nal reprieve, she would be rebuilt ABOVE Anthem of the Seas removed. In the process, the interior States Conservancy, but remained and then operate as a cruise ship encountered some very bad weather of the ship was completely gutted. at Philadelphia racking up enormous based in New York. on a recent cruise. ROYAL CARIBBEAN

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 13 NAVAL Gary Davies

The Royal Navy’s most powerful ever warships need more power. The battle Maritime Photographic for power

enough to cope with the demands or the case for increasing Review in 2011, the risk of power ROYAL NAVY of the integrated electric propulsion their power capacity, they are to outage remains prevalent. The Ministry of Defence has admitted system that powers everything on implement a machinery improvement From 2019 each ship is likely to that reliability issues with the propulsion board. Such sudden outages could package to help solve the propulsion get at least one new generator system of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 have serious consequences. problems. Despite an ongoing during major refits that will involve destroyers are more than just ‘teething Although the government has programme of more than a dozen cutting open the hull for access. It is problems.’ The £1 billion warships are stated there is currently no plan to modifications to improve reliability, unclear who will foot the bill for the prone to total electrical failures, with their launch an independent inquiry into the highlighted by an Independent Power rectification work, which could run into diesel generators seemingly not powerful reported power failures on Type 45 and Propulsion System Performance tens of millions of pounds. Imports and exports Antarctic wanderer navy currently operates six Dutch-built Indonesian NAVY Van Speijk (Leander) class frigates and The Indonesian state-owned PT PAL seven corvettes, including four SIGMA shipyard launched two warships on 9113s. Modular construction of the the same day at Surabaya in East Java, frigate has been carried out in both including its first ever export order. countries, with two of six sections They are Perusak Kawal Rudal, the first being built by DSNS in the Netherlands. of two SIGMA 10514 frigates for the The Tarlac class SSV is based on Indonesian Navy, and Tarlac, the first of the Indonesian Navy’s Makassar class a pair of Strategic Sealift Vessels (SSV) Landing Platform Dock, which is itself for the Philippines. derived from a low-cost design from The frigate project continues Daewoo SB&ME. Costing just US$45 Indonesia’s long association with the million each, the Philippine warships Dutch, and Damen Schelde Naval will be equipped with a stern well for ABOVE HMS Protector is the first Royal Navy ship to call at McMurdo Base, the Shipbuilding (DSNS) in particular. The amphibious operations. largest inhabited community on the Antarctic continent. Royal Navy

The expansion of her operating ICE PATROL area is in direct support of the Foreign HMS Protector has undertaken a and Commonwealth Office’s desire to historic five-week patrol to the East demonstrate the UK’s presence across Antarctic and Ross Sea during her the entire Antarctic continent. Her current deployment to the southern mission was in support of the work of hemisphere. The ice patrol ship became the Convention for the Conservation the first British government vessel of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, to visit the region in 80 years and to protecting the Antarctic eco-system, have travelled so far south, going with representatives from Australia and below 77 degrees latitude. The region New Zealand on board. HMS Protector is where the British explorers Captain inspected a number of fishing vessels Indonesia’s SIGMA 10514 PKR general-purpose Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton to ensure they adhere to the region’s frigates will enter service in 2017. Damen commenced their epic journeys. strict licensing regulations.

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INS Viraat is the last WATERFRONT British-built warship to BRIEF NEWS Eastern promise serve the Indian Navy. GERMAN NAVY • An update on INDIAN NAVY the progress of four Type 125 frigates set to replace eight Type 122s has been revealed. Baden-Württemberg (F222)

has been launched and is on [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com schedule for delivery in 2017. Nordrhein-Westfalen (F223), which was launched in April 2015, is — tting out in Hamburg. Sachsen-Anhalt (F224) will be launched in March 2016, while the two sections of Rheinland- Pfalz (F225) are on course for integration later this year.

ROYAL NAVY • Rolls Royce has delivered the — rst MT30 gas turbine as part of a long-lead foreign navies attending the event. useful equipment ahead of her formal items contract to supply INDIAN NAVY The Royal Navy was represented by decommissioning in June. engines for the — rst three India held its ˆ rst International Fleet the Type 45 HMS Defender Perhaps still best known for her Type 26 frigates. The MT30 is Review in 15 years, and the ˆ rst on her maiden overseas deployment. role as agship of the Royal Navy’s a development of the proven ever on the Eastern Seaboard, off The review was the last appearance Falklands task in 1982 as HMS Trent aero engine. Capable of Visakhapatnam in the Bay of Bengal, in a long and distinguished career for Hermes, Viraat actually served longer producing up to 40MW, it is the between 4 and 8 February. The one of the two participating aircraft in the Indian Navy than she did in world’s most powerful marine occasion provided a platform for the carriers, INS Viraat, which after the British service. Reports suggest the gas turbine. It will also power Indian Navy to showcase its rapidly event became non-operational and 57-year-old carrier is to be converted the Queen Elizabeth class growing military prowess to the 52 sailed for Mumbai to be stripped of into a hotel and conference facility. aircraft carriers, the US Navy’s Zumwalt class destroyers and the Republic of Korea Navy’s next generation of frigates.

Strong ROYAL NAVY • The MOD has placed a £44 million contract silent type with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems UK to ROYAL NAVY replace navigation The new class of lighter, systems throughout the ¤ eet exible general purpose frigate under the Navigation Radar announced in last year’s Strategic Programme. Over the next Defence and Security Review is — ve years more than 60 ships, to be known as the Type 31. The submarines and shore-based warships are to be considerably facilities will receive Kelvin cheaper than the Anti-Submarine Hughes SharpEye solid-state Warfare-optimised Type 26 Global radar transceivers. The contract Combat Ships (GCS). Indeed, the USS Fort Worth is one of two Freedom class LCSs to break down. US NAVY also has options for equipping government’s hesitancy to commit future Royal Navy platforms, to construction of the GCSs may such as the Queen Elizabeth well be as a direct consequence of aircraft carriers, the Type 26 their higher than expected cost. Machinery breakdowns and Successor class submarines. Few details have emerged experienced engine problems during US NAVY since the plan to maintain frigate sea trials that were later attributed to ROYAL THAI NAVY • Thailand has numbers was ˆ rst announced, The Royal Navy is not alone in having incorrect operating procedures. At the signed up for a second British- but it is hoped that the more problems with new ship types. The US time of writing, the brand-new ship designed warship following the affordable Type 31 will increase Navy has also encountered difˆ culties had been moved to BAE Systems yard acceptance of HTMS Krabi in their export potential, something with the introduction of its much- at Jacksonville for identiˆ cation of the 2013. The 90m Offshore Patrol the Type 26 has so far failed to criticised Littoral Combat Ships after problem and a ˆ x. Vessel is similar to the Royal accomplish. The SDSR hinted that two Freedom class vessels were put Just a month later USS Fort Worth Navy’s upcoming patrol vessels. frigate numbers may increase out of action after breakdowns. (LCS3) was sidelined at Changi naval It will be built under licence in the 2020s, which may mean In the ˆ rst incident, Milwaukee base in Singapore for similar reasons. by Bangkok Dock, with BAE more Type 26 orders. A number (LCS5) broke down 40 miles off the The ship was more than a year into a Systems providing engineering of design options are under coast of Virginia during her delivery 16-month Western Paciˆ c deployment support and advice during consideration, including a less voyage from Fincantieri’s Marinette and performing well before the construction. HTMS Krabi has sophisticated variant of the Type Marine shipyard and had to be towed mishap, which was said to have been already completed around 26 and off-the-shelf designs. to the Joint Expeditionary Base at Little caused by a failure to follow established 1,000 days at sea. Creek, Virginia. The same ship also procedures during maintenance.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 15 CARGO Baltic Ace wreck cut up China looks to the Northeast Passage SHIPWRECK Dutch salvage teams have completed the salvage operation to remove the wreck of the car carrier Baltic Ace (2007) from the North Sea. On 5 December 2012 Baltic Ace departed Zeebrugge on a regular voyage, but in stormy conditions she collided with the container feeder vessel Corvus J about 30 miles off the Dutch coast. Baltic Ace began taking on water and capsized and sank in 115ft water within 15 minutes. She lost 11 of her 24 crew, as well as 1,400 assorted Mitsubishi vehicles bound for Russia and 540,000 litres of fuel. For the next two years she lay on her side, impeding traffic using the Port of Rotterdam. RC that will see the establishment of a ABOVE The modified Chinese cargo CARGO ROUTES cooperative initiative on Arctic Shipping vessel Yongsheng made a voyage from China, which is already operating an Technology Development. to Varberg, Sweden over this ice-strengthened supply vessel it The aim of the agreement is to past season, and returned through the NSR to Tianjin, a 37,000km round trip purchased from the Ukraine in 1993, expand COSCO’s use of the Northeast completed in 55 days. PBS and which is also preparing to build Passage for more regular trading, as a dedicated research icebreaker, has well as to explore navigation across ABOVE The car carrier Baltic Ace seen authorised its state-owned China the route and develop ice-classed and Europe, and using the Northern leaving Zeebrugge on 5 December 2012 Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) to vessels appropriate for Trans-Arctic Sea Route reduces the sailing distance with a cargo of Mitsubishi vehicles, only sign a cooperation agreement with shipping. COSCO is a major operator of for vessels by nearly 4,000 miles, hours before she sank. Richard Potter the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) ships moving between northern Asia compared to a Suez Canal passage. JS

U-Ming orders bulkers New Year in Southampton The coaster Ems Majestic was forced to spend (99,212gt) into the U-Ming fleet. Bulk carriers Christmas in Southampton after her engine room The vessel is equipped with the new flooded on 6 December. Simon Smith Singapore’s U-Ming Marine Transport G70 type-ME engine, which helps to has signed a contract for the reduce fuel consumption. construction of two 81,500dwt bulk The vessel was built by Shanghai carriers, one of the few orders placed Waigaoqiao SB, a subsidiary of the for such ships this year because of China State Shipbuilding Corporation record low freight rates. The new (CSSC), as the sixth in a series of eight ships will be built by Japan’s Oshima Capesize ships for U-Ming, which Shipbuilding for delivery in 2018 and has been taking advantage of low will follow the recently delivered shipbuilding rates to renew its fleet 188,000dwt bulker Cape Success with fuel-efficient vessels. JS

were airlifted from the vessel, she COASTER was taken in tow by the new 1,100dwt On 6 December 2015 the 3,420dwt research/survey vessel Thor Frigg, Dutch coaster Ems Majestic (1996) was which took her to the Nab area. making a routine voyage southbound There she was picked up by Itchen in the English Channel from Rotterdam Marine’s tugs Wyetow and Wyeforce, to St Malo when she suffered flooding which towed the stricken vessel to 49 in the engine room and engine failure. berth Southampton. Repairs took quite Around 1900, when 13 nautical miles some time, and the coaster was moved south-east of Eastbourne, she sent to 48 berth on 22 December. Here she out a distress call, as her crew could spent Christmas and New Year before not cope with the influx of water. A finally resuming her voyage to St Malo ABOVE U-Ming has been taking advantage of very low shipbuilding prices to number of vessels responded and, on 14 January. Ems Majestic is operated replace a number of its older vessels, such as the 20-year-old Cape Jupiter. after two non-essential crew members by Fehn Ship Management. RC

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The 17-year-old 311,124dwt Hyundai WATERFRONT Front Chief, now trading as DS Chief, is one of the older VLCCs still in service, the sells  eet result of relatively high daily BULKERS earnings. R. MEULEMAN Financial dif culties and a weak dry

cargo market have forced South [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) to sell its bulk carrier business to Hahn & Co, a South Korean private equity rm and owner of H-Line Shipping, for $450 million. H-Line is made up of a number of bulk carriers purchased from another nancially troubled South Korean carrier, Hanjin Shipping, two years ago for $300 million. HMM has been operating a ‡ eet of 17 bulk carriers, along with its container ships, but has been struggling under a mounting debt load that has already World’s VLCC  eet growing forced it to sell off its LNG ships. JS ships. In the rst two months of the Baltic and International Maritime INDUSTRY NEWS this year, six brand-new VLCCs were Council (BIMCO), the world’s largest With the dry bulk trades suffering delivered by yards in South Korea and international shipping association, the through record low freight rates and China, while a further 37 are expected global VLCC ‡ eet now consists of 654 container carriers facing a negative to be delivered before year’s end. ships, out of which 72, like the 334m supply and demand ratio, tankers are The big ships are currently earning by 58m Front Chief, were built before being ordered in increasing numbers, about $50,000 per day, with some 2000. These big ships may trade ABOVE Extremely low freight rates including Very Large Crude Carriers being employed as storage vessels beyond their normal lifespans as long and a mounting debt load have forced (VLCC), traditionally the world’s largest because of the oil glut. According to as daily charter rates remain high. JS South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine to sell off its bulk carrier fleet. HMM Faversham expand  eet Old Irish favourite sold Germany, which was sailing under the COASTER Antigua and Bermuda ‡ ag. Built in 1998 Isle of Wight-based Faversham by Damen Shipyard, Galati, Romania Ships was formed in 1994 with the as Esmeralda, the coaster was sent to acquisition of the coaster Conformity. MMS Shipyard in Alexandra Dock, Hull Since then, the company has expanded for refurbishment prior to entering steadily and now operates cargo service for Faversham Ships. vessels from 1,280 to 3,850dwt. She was renamed Vitality while in Late in 2015 they decided to expand the Hull dry dock and placed under the their ‡ eet with the purchase of the Isle of Man ‡ ag. She sailed from Hull 4,748dwt coaster Nelli from Lohmann under her new name on 26 January, Bereederungen of Haren Ems, destined for Ghent. RC

ABOVE The Panamanian-flagged general cargo vessel K No 8 at Tianjin, China. She is better known as the tanker Rathkyle, owned by Dublin Shipping. SIMON SMITH

She was built by Kyokuyo Zosen GENERAL CARGO Shipyard, Chofu as the chemical Among the recent lists of vessels sold tanker Rich Star in 1981, and in 1987 for scrapping was one that might not was acquired by Dublin Shipping, who stand out at rst glance, having been operated her in Europe as Rathkyle. She sold to breakers at Chittagong. But was sold again in 1997 and renamed the vessel, the general cargo ship K Della. A further sale took place in 2003, No.8 (1981/13,229dwt), which has been when she was acquired by Middle disposed of by her owners Chang Duk East owners as Gulf Dove. Her current Shipping of Busan, South Korea, and owners acquired her in 2008 and which had been lying at Tianjin, China, converted her to a general cargo ship, ABOVE The latest addition to the fleet of Faversham Ships, Vitality, leaves Alexandra has an interesting history and was well renaming her K No.8. She departed in Dock, Hull on 26 January, where she had been renamed and reflagged. SIMON SMITH known in the UK, Ireland and Europe. February under tow for Chittagong. RC

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 17 NEWBUILD Jim Shaw Connector New design plumbs the depths

delivered Norway’s Marin Teknikk has furnished the design for a Multipurpose Diving CABLE INSTALLATION Support Construction Vessel to be built Denmark’s Maersk Supply Service has in China for Singapore’s Ultra Deep taken delivery of the DP2-rated cable Group. MARIN TEKNIKK installation vessel Maersk Connector from Holland’s Damen Shipyards Group following completion of the vessel by Damen’s yard in Galati, Romania. The 452.7ft (138m) by 90ft (27.5) ship has been completed to a Damen DOC 8500 design and has been Œ tted with a 7,000-tonne carousel system for cable storage as well as trenching and cable installation equipment. It has since gone on a long-term charter to Dutch services provider DeepOcean for employment at the Bligh Bank Phase II Offshore Wind Farm and the Walney Extension Project in the North Sea.

Norway’s Marin Teknikk is furnishing vessel will carry two remotely operated DIVING SUPPORT design and engineering services for the vehicles (ROVs) capable of operation China’s Wu Chang Shipbuilding Industry vessel, which is to be completed to the down to 11,430ft (3,000m), while deck Group has been contracted to build a Norwegian company’s newly developed equipment will include two heave- sophisticated DP2 FiFi2 Multipurpose MT6023 DSCV conŒ guration. compensated cranes, one of 150-ton Diving Support Construction Vessel for Accommodation will be provided for capacity with a depth capability of ABOVE The recently delivered Maersk Singapore’s Ultra Deep Group (UDS), 120 persons, plus 18 divers, and a diving 3,000m and one of 20-ton capacity for Connector has been designed for wind with the 338ft (103m) by 75.5ft (23m) system for operations down to 985ft operation down to 300m, the latter in farm cable installation work. DAMEN ship to be delivered by mid-2018. (300m) will be installed. In addition, the support of operations. Biggest ethane movers the ships. The powerplants will meet ETHANE CARRIERS Tier III emission requirements with China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry the aid of Exhaust Gas Recirculation Offshore Co Ltd (DSIC) has been technology and will drive 7.6m contracted to build Œ ve 85,000m3 Very diameter CP propellers in combination Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) for United with a fairing cone/rudder bulb system Ethane Carriers, a joint venture between to maximise propulsion efŒ ciency. Luxembourg-based Jaccar Holdings Upon delivery, the vessels will be and Hartmann Reederei of Germany. the largest ethane carriers ever built, To meet a tight delivery schedule, and will incorporate Star-Trilobe cargo ABOVE Lindblad Expeditions’ new 50-cabin coastal cruisers to be built by the with the Œ rst vessel to enter service by tanks that consist of three cylinders Nichols Brothers yard in Washington State will operate under the colours of the middle of next year, South Korea’s combined into one to give an increase National Geographic. JENSEN MARITIME Hyundai Heavy Industries will build the in cargo capacity of nearly 30 per cent Lindblad orders cruisers MAN B&W 6G60ME-GI main engines for over similarly-sized vessels. Brothers at a combined cost of COASTAL CRUISER $94.8 million and will operate cruises Seattle-based to Baja California, Costa Rica and and company during the winter months, Jensen Maritime has been selected and to Alaska, Oregon, Washington to provide detailed design and and Canada during the summer production engineering services following their delivery in 2017 and for two 100-passenger US-£ agged 2018. The Nichols yard built two of coastal cruise ships wanted by New Lindblad’s existing ships, National York’s Lindblad Expeditions. Geographic Sea Lion and National The twin screw, diesel-powered Geographic Sea Bird, but for other vessels will be built by Nichols owners in the 1980s. ABOVE A series of five 85,000m3 capacity ships recently ordered by United Ethane Carriers will be the world’s largest ethane tankers when delivered in 2017-18. UEC

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World’s largest asphalt carrier Slim’n’trim WATERFRONT CARGO CARRIERS Dutch shipbuilder Ferus Smit is continuing to deliver its series of narrow-beamed DP2 rated Ecobox

multi-purpose cargo carriers to [email protected] > e • 541444 01959 > t • 3AG TN16 Kent Cudham, Hill, Berry’s Barn, Tithe Cudham • www.shipsmonthly.com Singapore’s Symphony Shipping, with the third unit, Nordana Sea, recently contracted to carry a load of windmill components from Denmark to Greece on her maiden voyage. Six of the 10,500dwt ships are to be built, all measuring 122.5m by 17m, and featuring a single large box-shaped cargo hold served by two 85-ton cranes. Each Ice class 1A ship makes use of a 3,000kW main engine in conjunction with a bulbless Canoe type bow and ducted propeller to achieve an economical operating speed as well as good sea-keeping behaviour.

liquid asphalt at up to ABOVE The world’s largest specially- ASPHALT CARRIER 170o Celsius in 16 independent tanks built asphalt carrier, Asphalt Splendor, One could wonder about naming a with a total capacity of 35,666cm3, has been delivered to Florida’s Sargeant ship Asphalt Splendor, but such is the served by three cargo pumps. Marine by Avic Dingheng. BUREAU VERITAS title given to a new 37,000dwt asphalt The newbuilding comes on line after carrier recently delivered to Florida- Swiss energy trader Vitol Group elected and Trading, will • eld a – eet of 13 based Sargeant Marine by China’s Avic to acquire a 50 per cent interest in specialized vessels and is expected Dingheng shipyard and classed by Sargeant last year with the intent of to trade over a million metric tons of ABOVE Ferus Smit’s new Ecobox multi- Bureau Veritas. Considered the world’s forming a global leader in asphalt asphalt per annum. The newbuilding purpose ships being built for operation largest specially-built asphalt carrier, logistics and trading. The combined is powered by a Wärtsilä 5RT-– ex main by Nordana feature a relatively narrow the 590ft by 100ft vessel can carry joint venture, Global Asphalt Logistics engine rated at 6,400kW at 99rpm. beam of 55.7ft (17m). FERUS SMIT New deep-water vessel Chinese research vessels July 2017, will measure 79.8m in length RESEARCH VESSELS and have a deadweight of 4,400 tons, The Shanghai shipyard of the China while propulsion will be provided by State Shipbuilding Corporation and four nine-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 engines the COSCO yard in Guangdong, China driving twin thrusters. The second have been awarded contracts to build vessel will be 75.8m in length, with two new marine geological research a deadweight of 3,300 tons, and will vessels for the Institute of utilise three six-cylinder Wärtsilä 26 Marine Geology and the Guangzhou engines driving two aft-mounted Marine Geological Survey. WST-21 thrusters and two WTT-11 The • rst vessel, to be delivered in transverse thrusters.

Deck equipment for a new deepwater dive support vessel to be built for China’s Shanghai Salvage Bureau will include a pipe-laying tower and heavy crane for offshore construction work. WÄRTSILÄ

laying and construction work down to MULTI-PURPOSE 20,000ft (6,000m), as well as saturation Finland’s Wärtsilä has been contracted (SAT) diving operations for 24 divers by Shanghai Bestway Marine using two diving bells. Engineering Design Co Ltd to design a When completed, the new Chinese new type of multi-purpose deep-water ship, which will carry a Dynamic dive support vessel for operation by Positioning 3 rating, will be the China’s state-owned Shanghai Salvage world’s • rst SAT Bureau (SSB). The new ship will feature with Multi-Lay and ultra deep water ABOVE Chinese yards have been contracted to build two similar sized geological a unique combination of capabilities, construction capabilities, as well as research vessels to be delivered in mid-2017 for offshore work. COSCO including salvage operations, pipe- underseas salvage work.

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dangerous without a skilful A painting of the 53gt pilot cutter No.6 Pioneer (1852), pilot, and many ships and lives which measured 68ft by 15ft, off Point Lynas, Anglesey, have been lost owing to the demonstrating the kaleidoscope of hull colours specified negligence and ignorance of in 1854 by the pilotage committee which wee intended persons taking upon them to to distinguish the cutters from other craft. The small conduct ships and vessels into boat trailing astern of the pilot cutter is the ‘punt’ which and out of the said Port.’ was used to transfer pilots between cutter and ship. The service began with about 50 pilots selected from those who had been acting informally, and they were issued with a ‘Branch’ or ‘Licence’ for the new pilotage district. The Pilotage District was defined as that part of the Irish Sea bounded by the coasts of Lancashire, , North Wales, Anglesey, the east coast of the Isle of Man, and Cumberland to St Bees Head. In the first few years of the Service the pilot boats were an assortment of sloops, fishing smacks and cutters. These

his year sees the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Liverpool Pilotage Service. TheT Service is responsible for the safe passage of ships using the river Mersey, one of the country’s busiest waterways, with one of the greatest seaports of Britain, the Port of ABOVE Sailing schooners were Liverpool, on its eastern shore. withdrawn from service following the On the western shore lies the arrival of the third and fourth steam pilot Port of Birkenhead and the cutters in May 1898. The last schooner, No.10 George Holt, was retained for the Tranmere Oil terminal, which committee’s annual survey cruise and supplies the Stanlow . was not sold until 1904. Prior to 1766 an informal pilotage service existed in the approaches to the river In 1765, following the loss Mersey, offered mainly by in 1764 of 18 ships and 75 lives local fishermen. However, as in the Mersey approaches, the Liverpool developed into a merchants and tradesmen of thriving commercial port in Liverpool decided to establish the early 18th century, the a proper regulated pilotage need for an organised pilotage service for the port. On 25 service was evident. Although July 1766 the first Liverpool contemporary records show Pilotage Act duly came into some men’s occupation as force, with the following ‘pilot’, there was no regulation preamble: ‘The entrance to or organisation of them. the Port of Liverpool is very

22 • May 2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com RIVER MERSEY proved to be unsuitable, and, The pilot tender launch Puffin outward- after the loss of three pilot bound, passing a Mersey ferry. boats in 1770, it was decided to build nine boats of at least 40 tons, of which six or seven would be at sea all the time, rotating with those in dock. Sailing pilot cutters became the backbone of the Service and by 1859 12 of them were in service. Although referred to throughout the history of the service as ‘cutters’, the replacement pilot boats were now schooners. The first two steam pilot boats, No.1 Francis Henderson and No.2 Leonard Spear of 275gt, measuring 128ft by 24ft, only arrived in 1896. The pilots, somewhat inexplicably, had resisted the introduction of steam for a considerable ‘The first to say number of years. Both vessels were built at the same time by Good Morrow, Murdoch and Murray, of Port the last to say Glasgow. Two similar pilot boats, No.3 Queen Victoria Goodbye’ and No.4 David Fernie, and • On 22 July an exhibition will built at the same yard, quickly be opened marking the 250th followed in 1898. anniversary of the Liverpool In 1913 a considerably larger Pilotage Service at the Maritime replacement, No.1 Alfred H. Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. Read, came into service. The • On Wednesday 13 January 457gt vessel again came from Liverpool City Council, at an the Murdoch and Murray yard. Extraordinary meeting of the She was followed in 1917 by Council resolved ‘to grant the the last Murdoch and Murray ABOVE The last steam pilot boat, William M. Clarke, which was delivered in 1937. Freedom Roll of Association Award newbuild, No.2 Walter J. She measured 155ft by 30ft beam. She is pictured taking part in the 1937 Royal to the Liverpool Pilotage Service in Review at Spithead. She was eventually converted from coal burning to oil, and recognition of its contribution to the was sold to the Humber pilot service in 1963, being renamed Frank Atkinson. City of Liverpool and its residents’. A painting of the 42gt cutter • The Freedom ceremony will take No.9 Liver, which was built in place during the Thanksgiving Church 1796 and measured 46ft by 15ft; Service to be held on Thursday 28 this illustration shows the rather July at 1200 at St Nicholas Church, crude hull form of some of the Pier Head, Liverpool. early cutters. Chambers, which was slightly larger than Alfred H. Read. The outbreak of brought dangers to the pilots’ work, and in December 1917 Alfred H. Read hit a mine near the Bar lightship; 19 pilots, eight apprentices and 12 crew ABOVE The 140ft by 27ft Alfred H. Read on speed trials after her completion. She members lost their lives in the was sunk by a mine in December 1917. incident, with only two survivors. In 1921 two similar-sized boats, No.1 Charles Livingston and No.3 James H. Beazley, were delivered from Ferguson, Glasgow and Phillips & Son, Dartmouth respectively. In 1937 the last steam pilot boat, the 579gt No.4 William M. Clarke, which was larger again,

LEFT Charles Livingston was refloated and refurbished and re-entered service, being sold eventually in 1951.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 23 The fast pilot launch Fulmar operating out of Point Lynas, on Anglesey, the Liverpool western pilot station, from where she can quickly get to the approaches to Liverpool and the Mersey. Nicholas Leach

After the war the pilots had to adjust to the increasing size of ships, as well as a significant decline in the number of ships. was delivered from Smiths service: No.1 Sir Thomas Dock, Middlesbrough. Brocklebank (675gt), No.2 Tragedy struck again at the Edmund Gardner (701gt) and outset of World War II when, No.3 Arnet Robinson (734gt, ABOVE Between 1950 and 1957 three new diesel-electric-powered pilot boats in November 1939, during a 179ft by 32ft ), all of which entered service: No.1 Sir Thomas Brocklebank (675gt), No.2 Edmund Gardner violent storm, the pilot boat were built at Dartmouth. In (701gt) and No.3 Arnet Robinson (734gt, 179ft by 32ft ), all built at Dartmouth. Charles Livingston was driven 1962 pilot tender launches ashore on Ainsdale beach. were introduced, operating disembarkation service, a Eight pilots, eight apprentices a shuttle service between system that continues today. and seven crew members were Liverpool and the Bar pilot Last year the serving pilots lost, and there were only ten boat, using the twin Rolls- planned and rehearsed, on survivors. As well as serving a Royce-engined launches Puffin their sophisticated in-house myriad of Naval ships and local and Petrel, which were also electronic simulator, the shipping, the pilots aided 1,285 built at Dartmouth. complicated manoeuvres for convoys during the war. During Changes in the method of the extremely successful visit the conflict, in addition to the operating continued, with the of Cunard’s three Queens. The usual difficulties, they had to station-keeping pilot boats pilots are now preparing for the contend with severely restricted being replaced by fast launches. arrival of the first post-panamax night-time lighting, as well as This happened first at the Point (triple E) container ships at facing bombing and the threat Lynas pilot station in Anglesey the soon-to-be-completed of aerial mines. in 1974, and then, on 1 July Liverpool 2 deepwater After the war the pilots had 1982, pilot boat No.3 Arnet container berth. to adjust to the increasing size Robinson left the Mersey Bar And so, after 250 years, of ships, as well as a significant pilot station for the last time, throughout every day of the decline in their numbers. thus ending 210 years of year, in all weathers, night and The numbers of pilots on the station-keeping pilot cutters. day, ably served by the launch Mersey fell from a post-war From 1972 new faster tender crews, Liverpool pilots continue LEFT The 1953-built pilot cutter No.2 peak in the 1960s of 185 to just launches were introduced at the service started all those years Edmund Gardner on display at the 55 by 1990, the same number Liverpool, and in 1982 the Merseyside Maritime Museum. She ago with the same objective in as are in the Service today. Bar pilot station operated spent almost 30 years as a base in mind – to pilot their ship, its Between 1950 and 1957 with two launches on duty the Irish Sea for the Pilotage Service, crew and its cargo into or out three new diesel-electric all the time, providing the providing accommodation for up to 32 of the Port of Liverpool in a powered pilot boats entered necessary boarding and pilots at a time. Nicholas Leach safe and timely manner.

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www.shipsmonthly.com • May2016 • 25 themissiontoseafarers @FlyingAngelNews ICEBREAKERS Jim Shaw describes the

MAIN IMAGE Designed to berth latest icebreakers being and unberth large ice-classed designed and built by LNG carriers that will be calling at Russia’s Port of Sabetta as various countries as the part of the giant Yamal gas number of such vessels project, two icebreaking tugs being built for FSUE Atomflot in service increases. will employ four ABB Azipods of 3 MW each, two in the bow and two in the stern. AKER ARCTIC

Expanding the world’s fl eet

n January the based ship that has been living US Coast Guard off spare parts provided by her released a proposed retired sistership Polar Sea. acquisition timeline Other countries, particularly and requirements for Russia, are not waiting that Itwo new heavy icebreakers long. Using its own building that it would like to have facilities, as well as yards in built. Although President nearby Finland and Germany, Obama proposed speeding the Russia has been turning out acquisition and building of a large number of ice-capable new Coast Guard icebreakers ships, with over 40 now in during a visit to Alaska last year, service and a dozen more the head of the Coast Guard’s to come, including the new acquisition offi ce, Rear Admiral nuclear-powered 120MW Mike Haycock, said production Leader class. This ship, plus of a new heavy icebreaker is sisters, is expected to be probably at least fi ve years off operational on the country’s and that the new ships could Northern Sea Route by 2024. ABOVE Russia’s new 15-knot MPSV06 vessels, represented by the recently cost over $1 billion each. Until Finland, an Arctic specialist, completed Beringov Proliv, are powered by a diesel/electric propulsion system then, the US Coast Guard is nearing completion of the incorporating four diesel generators of 10.6MW output driving twin ABB Azipods will have to make do with the world’s fi rst LNG-powered mounted aft and two bow thrusters forward. Nordic Yards 40-year-old Polar Star, a Seattle- icebreaker, while several of its

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ABOVE Pre-launch photo of the recently delivered MPSV07 class vessel Spasatel Demidov discloses forward bow thrusters and ducted twin propellers aft. NEVSKY SHIPYARD

ABOVE The delivery of a new heavy icebreaker for the US Coast Guard may be at least half a decade away, and until then the service will have to rely on the 40-year-old Polar Star, a Seattle-based ship that has been kept going using spare parts provided by her retired sistership Polar Sea. US COAST GUARD

ABOVE Russia’s Nevsky Shipyard has started construction on the first two 1,820dwt MPSV12 class vessels, which have been designed specifically as shallow- draught ships. MARINE ENGINEERING BUREAU

Arctic specialist companies have Amur Shipbuilding has been ABOVE Australia’s new research icebreaker, designed by Denmark’s Knud E. been assisting other countries constructing the fi rst of the Hansen and due to be completed by late 2019, will accommodate 34 crew and up with icebreaker projects. These class, the 86m (282ft) by 19.1m to 116 scientists. KNUD E. HANSEN include new research icebreakers (63ft) Spasatel Petr Gruzinskiy, for Australia, Argentina, China, at its facility on the Amur River, Canada, Norway and Peru. while Germany’s Nordic Yards at Wismar has already fi nished Russian icebreakers sisterships Beringov Proliv and Russia, with a busy commercial Murman. Each of the 1,370dwt sea passage on its northern vessels carries two large cranes frontier as well as major for salvage work as well as a commercial undertakings in the landing platform for helicopters. ice-prone Baltic and western The vessels also have the Pacifi c, has been investing capability of handling remotely substantial sums to build up the operated underwater vehicles world’s largest icebreaker fl eet. from hangars and have Within this programme is the facilities for ongoing construction of a series deepwater divers. Although of icebreaking Multi-Purpose Spasatel Petr Gruzinskiy remains Salvage Vessels (MPSV) that to be delivered, Russia’s Sea are being completed in three Rescue Service has based ABOVE Already commissioned at St Petersburg is the first of Russia’s three 21900M classes known as the MPSV06s, Beringov Proliv at Korsakov, on project icebreakers, the diesel-powered Vladivostok, built for FSUE Rosmorport MPSV07s and MPSV12s, with Sakhalin Island, and Murman by the Vyborg Shipyard in cooperation with Finland’s Arctech Helsinki yard. The the MPSV06s being the largest. at Murmansk. The four slightly similar Murmansk, completed in Finland, is being outfitted at Saint Petersburg Of the latter, Russia’s smaller MPSV07 ships, Spasatel and will be followed by sistership Novorossiysk later this year. ROSMORPORT

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 27 European polar research icebreaker Over the past decade the European Union has been designing a polar research icebreaker under the European Research Icebreaker Consortium (ERICON-AB). A principal feature of the new EU ship, to be named Aurora Borealis, has been the incorporation of a core drilling tower, but unacceptably high costs have led to a downsized version of the ship in order to cut its estimated €800 million cost to below €500 million. A revised design has since been accomplished by Finland’s Aker Arctic Technology without compromising too many of the scientific goals behind the original concept. A major change has been in size and propulsion, with the latest version of the ship calling for a displacement of 42,000 tonnes powered by triple 15MW Azipod units compared to the original 65,000-tonne displacement design and three fixed-pitch propellers driven by three 27MW electric motors. The latest design also provides for running the ship on LNG for at least one week, with the fuel to be stored in special tank containers carried on deck. Although operational costs for the latest version of Aurora Borealis are projected to be nearly 45 per cent less than the initial design, the icebreaking performance is anticipated to be similar, with the new version able to maintain two to three knots through 2.5m thick ice. However, the drilling tower will be replaced by removable drilling equipment.

LEFT Russia’s nuclear-powered LK-60 class, to be 14m longer and 4m wider than the country’s largest existing icebreaker, will have a displacement of 33,540 tonnes and be used to escort commercial vessels across the Northern Sea Route. Rosatomflot

Karev, Spasatel Kavdeykin, to be completed, but will be Spasatel Zaborschikov and shallow-draught vessels when Spasatel Demidov, have all delivered in 2018, with the first now entered service following two now under construction the latter ship’s completion at the Nevsky Shipyard near by the Nevsky Shipyard in St Petersburg. They will have Schlüsselburg last year. These a speed of 14 knots while 1,171dwt vessels measure operating on a maximum 73m by 16.6m and have a sea draught of 4.5m (14.7ft) and endurance of 20 days as well are expected to be deployed as the capability of supporting at Russia’s major river estuary operations ports in the Arctic, as well as in to depths down to 300m. the Azov and Caspian seas. The first three have been based at Novorossiysk, Port icebreakers Murmansk and Vladivostok, Already commissioned at with the final unit still to St Petersburg is the first of be assigned. The 1,820dwt Russia’s three 21900M project ABOVE China has stipulated that its new icebreaker be equipped for both cargo MPSV12 class, to measure icebreakers, the diesel-powered handling and research work, with a container-handling crane to be mounted 79.85m by 17.36m, have yet Vladivostok, built for FSUE forward and an A-frame for marine sampling installed aft. MARIC

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Already working in the is the new Russian icebreaker Baltika, which can open up a channel for vessels that are wider then her own beam of 20.5m by moving sideways through the ice using an asymmetric hull form. Aker Arctic

Icebreakers for Russian oil major Two new icebreakers being built to of breaking ice up to 2m thick in air operate within the mouth of the temperatures as low as minus 50°C. Ob River in arctic Russia are to be Due to be completed next year powered by two 16-cylinder and two for Russia’s Gazprom Neft, they will eight-cylinder Wärtsilä 32 engines be used to keep Novy Port open for and one six-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 tanker traffic.T he recoverable reserves engine each. The twin 122m by 25m in the arctic area are estimated to be vessels are being built by the PJSC more than 250 million tonnes of oil ABOVE Finland’s Aker Arctic Technology and China’s MARIC have joined forces to Vyborg Shipyard to Aker Arctic’s and condensate and more than 320 create a new icebreaker for China that will employ double-acting technology to ARC 130 design and will be capable billion cubic metres of gas. break level ice at least 1.5m thick, ahead or astern, at two to three knots. Aker Arctic

Rosmorport by the Vyborg former will be updated versions Shipyard in cooperation with of the already delivered Aleksey Finland’s Arctech Helsinki yard. Chirikov and Vitus Bering, both The similar Murmansk, built in of about 4,200dwt and now Finland, is being outfitted at St operating in the Sea of Okhotsk, Petersburg and will be followed by while the latter will be ship- sister Novorossiysk later this year. assist vessels that will berth and Known for its expertise in unberth ice-classed LNG carriers building ice ships, the Vyborg at the Port of Sabetta on the yard has also been chosen to western shore of the Ob estuary. build a series of icebreaking To accomplish this latter platform supply vessels for the task, the Sabetta ships will be Sakhalin projects in the western fitted with a rather complex Pacific as well as two port propulsion system that will icebreakers for the Yamal LNG consist of four ABB Azipods of ABOVE Russian oil major Gazprom Neft will take delivery of two ARC 130 project in northern Russia. The 3MW each, two in the bow and icebreakers for stationing at the mouth of the Ob River. Aker Arctic

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 29 two in the stern, while power will come from three eight- Chile has contracted Norway’s Vard Marine to develop the design of a new icebreaker that will be constructed cylinder Wärtsilä 31 engines at the ASMAR shipyard in Talcahuano, Chile for operation by the Chilean Navy. Vard fitted with ABB’s Power2 800- M two-stage turbocharging systems. The vessels will also make use of ABB’s Onboard DC Grid system which, besides providing space and savings, will allow the engines to run at variable speeds rather than at one fixed speed. Strongest icebreakers Russia has a number of other icebreakers under construction or in the planning stage, including the multi-purpose nuclear- powered Arktika, being built by the Baltic Shipyard, and the nuclear-powered 120MW Leader class, still on the drawing board. Drawing on Aker Arctic’s The latter ship, being expertise, the vessel will employ designed by the Krylov State double-acting technology to Research Center in cooperation break level ice at least 1.5m with the Central Design Bureau thick, ahead or astern, at two to Iceberg OJSC, is intended to three knots. Two azimuthing operate year-round along the propeller drives of about 15MW entire Northern Sea Route, will draw power from four main where her main customers generating sets, while heavy are expected to be very large twin skegs fitted aft will be used capacity commercial vessels to protect the propulsors from of over 100,000dwt. For this multi-year ice blocks. In open duty, she will have the ability to water, the ship should be able break through 2m thick ice at to attain 12 knots using a single ABOVE Peru is having its latest ice-strengthened research ship built in Spain to an economically efficient speed main genset, and 15 knots on a Norwegian design and Polar Class PC7 standards for resupplying its bases in of about ten knots. two, while all four will be used Antarctica. Skipsteknisk The ship will follow Arktika for icebreaking in the toughest and her two sisters, which are conditions. Irizar out of service. Although Antarctica as well as serve as an expected to enter service in 2018, For resupplying operations, a decade-long rebuilding oceanographic research platform. 2020 and 2021, although Russian container capacity will be programme is expected to put While design work on the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry provided forward, along with a the 38-year-old ship back in new ship moves forward in Rogozin recently moved these deck crane, while a second crane service towards the end of this Finland, Spain’s SENER dates forward to next year for and A-frame will be mounted year, Argentina still feels it needs has been brought in by the Arktika and 2019 and 2020 for aft for marine sampling. The an ice-strengthened vessel that Argentine Navy to assist local the remaining two. With dual- newbuilding will be completed can be used to supply its bases in contractors in completing the draught capability, these heavy to ice class PC3 standards and icebreakers will be suitable will have dual classification from for operations in the Barents, the China Classification Society Pechora and Kara Seas, as well and Lloyd’s Register. It will be as in the shallow waters of the owned by China’s State Oceanic Yenisei river estuary and Ob Bay. Administration and be used by both the Chinese Arctic and Icebreakers for China Antarctic Administration and the China, which has been making Polar Research Institute of China. considerable commercial use of the Northern Sea Route and Argentina also maintains three permanent Like China, Argentina research stations in Antarctica, maintains a number of research operates the ice-strengthened stations in Antarctica, and it Xuelong, which it purchased is also drawing on the skills of from Ukraine in 1993, but Aker Arctic to come up with an it is also to build a dedicated advanced design for a 131.5m research icebreaker. The design by 24m ice-strengthened for this 122m by 22.3m ship special purpose ship that is has been entrusted to Finland’s expected to be built in China. Aker Arctic Technology Argentina once operated one and China’s MARIC, with of the world’s most powerful construction expected to take icebreakers until, in 2007, a fire place in Shanghai. put the 1978-built Almirante

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Norway research icebreaker

Norway does not have a great Marine Research. Due for delivery need for icebreaking capability next year, the 100m by 21m ship is as its coastline is relatively ice- being completed to a Rolls-Royce free throughout the year, but the NVC 395 POLAR design and will make Norwegian Coast Guard operates use of two Bergen B32:40L9ACD the 2002-built ice-strengthened and two Bergen B32:40L6ACD diesel patrol vessel KV Svalbard in the Arctic generator sets to drive azimuthing waters north of Norway. With a main thrusters as well as tunnel displacement of 6,375 tonnes, and thrusters. This will give it a capability using two ABB Azipods driven by four to maintain ‹ ve knots through 1m diesel/generator sets, the ship can thick ice and up to 12 knots when break through smooth ice 1m thick. breaking ice of 0.4m thickness. A similar capability has been speci‹ ed Once delivered, it will be employed for the new Polar research vessel FF in environmental research at the Kronprins Haakon currently under North and South Polar regions by the ABOVE Argentina is having designs drawn up for a new polar supply ship while construction by ’s Fincantieri Norwegian Polar Institute and the it completes a major reconstruction of the 1978-built icebreaker Almirante Irízar, for the Norwegian Institute of Arctic University of Norway. heavily damaged by fire in 2007. TNDS The new Norwegian research reconstruction of Almirante Humboldt, a 1,731-tonne vessel FF Kronprins Haakon, being Irízar. Using the facilities displacement ice-strengthened built by Italy’s Fincantieri, will be of Talleres Navales Dársena ship completed by the SIMA able to go at five knots through Norte (Tandanor) at Buenos yard at Callao in 1978. 1m ice. ROLLS-ROYCE Aires, the heavy icebreaker As a replacement, the Peruvian has received completely Navy has ordered a larger and new machinery, including stronger vessel from Spain’s new main engines, as well as Construcciones Navales P. Freire, more accommodation and which is expected to enter service improved scientifi c spaces. The next year. To be completed reconstruction is projected to a ST-344 design furnished to give the 14,900-tonne by Norway’s Skipsteknisk, the displacement icebreaker 99.7m vessel will be completed another 30 years of service. to Polar Class PC7 international the 6,000-tonne displacement Maritime, a subsidiary of standards, which cover ships ship a speed of 15 knots. Serco Australia, for a new Peru’s icebreakers that are not classifi ed as Several other South American icebreaker that will replace the It might seem odd that Peru icebreakers but are still required countries are also contemplating 27-year-old Aurora Australis is having an ice-class research to operate in waters with a high the procurement of ice-going by her 30th birthday in vessel built, but the Latin ice presence. This means the research and supply ships, 2019. The new 23,400-tonne American country does maintain newbuild will have to make its including Colombia, Ecuador displacement ship, designed by a base in Antarctica and this supply runs to Antarctica when and Chile, with the latter Denmark’s Knud E. Hansen facility has been supplied ice fl oes are less frequent. already advancing design funds and expected to be built by hitherto by the Peruvian-built Accommodation will be for a ship to replace its 47-year- the Damen Group’s yard at oceanographic research vessel arranged for 110 people, old icebreaker Almirante Oscar Galati, Romania, will be larger, including scientists and crew, Viel. This vessel was built as faster and stronger than the and a helicopter hangar and the Canadian Navy’s Norman P&O vessel, and will also offer fl ight deck will be carried aft. McLeod Rogers in 1969, and increased endurance and more Diesel/electric propulsion will was acquired by Chile in 1994. expansive facilities for scientists. be used in conjunction with an Under a proposed agreement azimuthing drive system to give Australia to be concluded this year, DMS Like the South American Maritime will cover the design, countries, Australia has no need construction, operation and LEFT Canada hopes to have its new of an icebreaker to keep its own maintenance of the A$500 heavy icebreaker in service by 2022. sea lanes open, but it has had million ship, which will be A name was chosen for the vessel as a long-term involvement in chartered by the AAD on a far back as 2008, John G. Diefenbaker, Antarctica through the Australian long-term basis. To measure and an initial design contract was Antarctic Division (AAD) of 512ft (156m) by 84ft (25.6m), awarded to STX Canada Marine three its Australian Department of years later, with the new icebreaker the vessel will be able to break expected to be in service by next year. the Environment. This agency ice 1.65m thick at three knots However, numerous delays have hit has regularly chartered the compared to Aurora Australis’s the project and its construction has 8,158-tonne displacement 1.23m at 2.5 knots, and will be now been pushed behind two Joint research icebreaker Aurora equipped with two landing craft Support Ships wanted by the Canadian Australis, a 311.4ft (94.9m) by and a dedicated science tender. Navy. This is expected to delay the 67ft (20.3m) ship built for P&O It will also have a helicopter icebreaker’s entry into service until Maritime Services by Australia’s hangar and fl ight deck aft, and 2022, while its projected cost has Carrington Slipways in 1989. a cargo hold of 1,200 tonnes almost doubled to 1.3 billion Canadian The agency is now capacity forward, the latter dollars. CANADIAN COAST GUARD negotiating with DMS served by two deck cranes.

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32 • May2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com TM SHIP OF THE USS NEW MONTH JERSEY

USS New Jersey under way in her heyday. US NAVY PHOTO

The US Navy’s most decorated battleship

Stephen Payne profiles USS New Jersey, America’s most decorated battleship, which has gained more battle honours than any other warship.

SS New Jersey On 23 December 1944 was one of New Jersey was superfi cially four Iowa class damaged by friendly fi re from warships, the an escorting destroyer when a last and largest fi ve-inch shell was accidentally battleshipsU used by the US discharged at her during fi ring Navy, all of which were built practice. New Jersey herself in the early 1940s. New Jersey caused considerable damage commissioned on 23 May 1943, to her destroyer escort Franks but returned to the shipyard during a severe storm on 2 that September to have her April 1945, when the two ships open bridge enclosed with a collided. Thereafter the ship circular bridge front, which was was very active against Japanese subsequently replaced with the forces until the end of the present squared-off bridge in Pacifi c confl ict. During World 1945. She undertook her fi rst War II New Jersey steamed operational sortie on 23 January more than 220,000 miles and 1944, when she acted as an anti- had the distinction of shooting aircraft escort for a Pacifi c carrier down 20 enemy aircraft. task force. Less than a month She was placed in the reserve later, on 17 February 1944, she on 30 June 1948 at Bayonne, was in action off Truk, sinking New Jersey. But two years later, an armed trawler and engaging on 21 November 1950, she was at extreme range the Japanese recommissioned for the Korean Katori and the confl ict for two separate periods destroyer Maikaze. until November 1953, being

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 33 TM Various views of USS New Jersey in serene retirement at her berth in Camden, New Jersey.

USS New Jersey US NAVY BATTLESHIPS NORTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA IOWA CLASS 1943 IOWA CLASS 1980s DIMENSIONS 222.12m x 33.01m 202.99m x 32.96m 270.43m x 32.96m DRAUGHT 8.15 8.91 8.84 USS New Jersey • Behind the scenes DISPLACEMENT 35,000 tons 35,000 tons 45,000 tons USS New Jersey (BB62) resides SPEED/POWER 28 knots/121,000shp 27.5 knots/130,000shp 32.5 knots/212,000shp at Camden, opposite the MAIN ARMAMENT 3x3 16-inch Mk.6 3x3 16-inch Mk.6 3x3 16-inch Mk.7 Philadelphia waterfront on the SECONDARY 10x2 5-inch 10x2 5-inch 10x2 5-inch 6x2 5-inch Delaware River. She is berthed ARMAMENT starboard side to, with her ADDITIONAL 40mm Bofors 40mm Bofors 80x40mm Bofors 32 BGM-109 Tomahawk bow facing upriver, and is WEAPONS 28mm machine guns 28mm machine guns 49x20mm Oerlikon 16 RGM -84 Harpoon accessed forward via a stairway/ 20mm Oerlikon 20mm Oerlikon 4 20mm Phalanx CIWS lift/gangway QUARTER DECK ON MAIN DECK primarily engaged in shore • Passing main turrets #2 and #1, bombardment duties. During visitors can walk as far forward the fi rst period, on 21 May as the anchor capstans. The teak 1951, she suffered the only decking in this area is in rather poor fatalities throughout her career condition, with some planks being when a shore battery engaged almost completely wasted away, her while she was at anchor, leaving only the remaining ridges of a shell burst killing one and caulking. However, sections of the injuring three sailors. planking are being replaced. Having again been placed in STEEL FORECASTLE • This has the the reserve on 21 August 1957, two main 342m anchor chains. Each New Jersey was reactivated ten link weighs 50kg and is connected to years later for bombardment a 14-tonne stockless bower anchor. duties off Vietnam during that Straddling the deck is a Discone confl ict. She was considered Cage antenna for ship-to-ship to be in the best materiel communications. state of the remaining US CREW BERTHING ON 2 DECK • Bunks battleships, as her sisters had are arranged in units with tiers of been cannibalised as a source of three; the deckhead is exposed with spares to enable her to become piping and cables on view, while the operational quickly. ABOVE New Jersey unleashing a broadside early in her career. Notice the open bridge. deck is covered with linoleum. From The refi t was undertaken here, the capstan machinery can at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to bolster the US Navy to Olympics, and then participated be viewed through a bulkhead door and entailed the ship being create a 600-ship force to in the Australian bicentennial and, super‹ cially at least, looks in fi tted with an updated forward counter the Soviet threat, celebrations. New Jersey joined brand-new condition. bridge tower and, to reduce and the four Iowas were other naval units in Pacifi c manpower requirements, the earmarked to become the Exercise ’89 before sailing to removal of her 20mm Oerlikon ultimate expression of that the , where she and 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft policy. After modernisation, remained until returning to the guns. In the event, the ship was New Jersey recommissioned on United States in February 1990. operational for just 120 days, 28 December 1982 and was She was decommissioned on but she still managed to fi re homeported at Long Beach, 8 February 1991 and was struck 10,000 shells. On 3 April 1969 California. In September the from the US Navy register on she sailed for home via Japan, following year she was sent 4 January 1999. On 15 October where she was once again to Beirut in support of US 2000, after a short refi t, she placed in the reserve, at Puget Marines stationed in Lebanon. arrived under tow at Camden, Sound Naval Shipyard. Following an extensive New Jersey and subsequently In the early 1980s President overhaul in 1987-88, the ship opened as a museum ship – and Ronald Reagan directed his was back in Korean waters for the country’s most decorated Navy Secretary John Lehman the opening of the 1988 Seoul battleship.

Tours of War Duty ABOVE Turret No.1. USS NEW JERSEY BELOW Sighting periscopes and World War II • Awarded 9 superstructure tower. Battle Stars May 1943 to June 1948 with 2,753 crew Korean War • Awarded 4 Battle Stars November 1950 to July 1953 with 2,688 crew Vietnam War • Awarded 3 Battle Stars April 1968 to April 1969 with 1,626 crew • September 1983 to ABOVE New Jersey cruising off the coast of California alongside the destroyer Fletcher Gulf War April 1984 with 1,518 crew prior to her deployment to the Mediterranean

36 • April 2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com SHIP OF THE MONTH USS New Jersey • Behind the scenes

MAIN DECK, FORWARD OF #1 MAIN internal companionway, where a the tower originally housed the † re across the deck, rather than directly TURRET • Along the starboard side, number of Of† cer cabins show how control for the main armament. At the outboard. Another four canisters past the curved breakwater, a 16-inch two Of† cers were billeted. forward end of the open bridge on with 16 missiles are located at the shell and cordite charge bag adjacent 03 LEVEL • The Signal Bridge and the port side are a number of bridge aft end of 03 Level at the rear of the to #1 turret is on display. Admiral’s Bridge are located forward. instrument repeaters, along with a superstructure. OFFICERS’ WARDROOM • Access The Admiral’s Bridge is rather gyro-compass repeater. MIDSHIPS ON 01 LEVEL • This area is through a superstructure hatch rudimentary and is separated into two AFT OF THE BRIDGE • Moving aft is the has been out† tted with a number of which leads to the Wardroom. This sections, port and starboard, due to forward † ve-inch secondary armament informative displays about battleships large area is laid out with a number of the presence of the oval armoured radar director. This is one of four units in general, including a number of long tables, with the associated galley conning tower. It is equipped with a controlling the 12 † ve-inch guns. detailed models of World War II being positioned immediately aft. A pedestal chair, small shelf, telephones, DEFENCE GUNS • Further aft is battleships from around the world. large scale model of USS New Jersey intercom and small heater. The the forward starboard side Phalanx There is also a replica of an 18-inch in a glass case is on display, along with windows had to be lowered when the close-range defence gun. One of four shell as used by the Japanese super photographs and another 16-inch shell. forward main armament † red, as the mounted on board during the ship’s battleships Yamato and Mushashi. 01 LEVEL, FORWARD TO #2 MAIN blast would have broken the glazing. reactivation, this six-barrelled radar There is a tribute to Admiral Halsey TURRET • The turret can be entered 04 LEVEL • The corresponding controlled a 20mm Gatling type gun (a celebrated World War II New Jersey and the complexity of the internal Captain’s Navigating Bridge is located which could † re 4,500 rounds per commander) as well as displays arrangements appreciated. here. The glazing extends substantially minute and was designed to take out about Sailors’ Life, Homeland ADMIRAL’S QUARTERS • The carpeted further aft here, but again the windows incoming missiles. Security and New Jersey. bedroom is relatively small and has had to be lowered in action. The bridge OTHER ARMAMENT • Further aft, 2 DECK • The carpenter’s shop, a bedside unit, writing desk, book surrounds the conning tower, which four six-barrelled Mark 6 Super Rapid bakery, galley, crew serving line and shelves, built-in wardrobes and itself is open at this level. Within the Bloom Offboard Chaff (SRBOC) decoy the commodious crew mess spanning stowage lockers. The bedroom opens armoured citadel are the navigation launchers are arranged on each side of two full ship width compartments. The into the main living space, which is controls, periscopes to the top deck the ship besides the forward funnel. latter area has been arranged as the set out with conference tables, a and small observation slits. The hinged These units † red chaff type decoy onboard café and snack bar. comfortable sitting area with sofas and open door shows the 444mm thickness material to confuse incoming missile 3 DECK • An open hatchway down to 3 easy chairs, and writing desk. There is a of the armour. The Captain’s pedestal targeting systems. Deck shows the depth of the armoured grand wooden display case containing chair is on the starboard side; the only AFT END OF DECK • A mezzanine deck at this level; the hatch is even silverware and a display of the ship’s navigational equipment are two gyro- wraps around the back of the forward more substantial than the 153mm Commanding Of† cers throughout her compass repeaters and a radar set. funnel overlooking one of two deck armour. One deck down at 3 Deck life set behind a large table. 05 LEVEL • The open Navigating Bridge Tomahawk missile launch decks at 04 level, the barbers’ shop and extensive CAPTAIN’S CABIN • More austere than is on this level. The conning tower Level. Four Tomahawk canisters are laundry can be found. Adjacent to the Admiral’s, it also lacks carpeting. rises up to this level and periscopes each equipped with four missiles. The these, sleeping accommodation is 02 LEVEL • This is reached via an emerge from the top. This level of missiles at this location † red inwards located for youth and scout groups.

ABOVE Officers’ Wardroom. ABOVE Armoured conning tower.

BELOW Interior of No.2 main 16 inch .

ABOVE Forward capstan machinery below the foredeck.

BELOW Captain’s Bridge. BELOW Captain’s cabin.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 37 The life and times of Gloucester Castle Matthys van der Merwe, a curator at the Iziko Museums of , recalls the history of the Union-Castle steamer Gloucester Castle, which was sunk in both wars, with the World War II incident being a major tragedy.

n 1876, when the to go to the Transvaal Republic mail contract between as prospectors. Union Line England and the Cape responded to the gold rush was renewed, the British traffi c by introducing the G Government divided class intermediate ships, while Iit between the Union and the Donald Currie from Castle Castle Lines. ‘Extra’ vessels Line ordered three rather old- originally operated on an ad- fashioned four-masted vessels, ABOVE Gloucester Castle at Cape Town in November 1939 in war paint but hoc basis between the contract each driven by a single screw. apparently unarmed. JOHN H. MARSH COLLECTION, JOHN H. MARSH MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE, mail sailings. These ships also But the two Lines did not IZIKO MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA called at more ports than the remain competitors for long, mailships, and tended to be and on 8 March 1900 were Castle, they were built by three a troopship. She took men of slower because they were not formally amalgamated as the different yards: Guildford Castle the British Expeditionary Force contracted to work to a defi nite Union-Castle Mail Steamship came from Barclay, Curle, (BEF) to France, and remained schedule, although when some Company Ltd, and immediately Glasgow; Galway Castle from on a cross-Channel run until of the routes became popular looked to replace the old Harland & Wolff at Belfast; and September 1914, when she was a regular line was introduced, vessels on the intermediate Gloucester Castle from Fairfi eld fi tted out as a hospital ship. As and this became known as an service. In 1909 the new G SB&E Co, Glasgow. Like the HMHS Gloucester Castle, she ‘intermediate service’. class intermediates followed, fi rst G class ships, they had returned to the cross-Channel The Union and Castle Lines and between 1909 and 1911 a been designed for a speed of service with an occasional trip each sent a mail steamer to the total of fi ve were built, of which 12 knots, although Gloucester to the Mediterranean. Cape on alternate weeks as part Gloucester Castle was the third. Castle was slower, having an On 31 March 1917 she was of this service, which, effectively, The others were Grantully average speed of 11 knots. torpedoed by the German gave the Cape a weekly Castle (2), Garth Castle Gloucester Castle served mail service with England (2), Guildford Castle and in the intermediate service for the fi rst time. When Galway Castle. Although until 6 August 1914, when gold was discovered on the Guildford Castle and she was requisitioned by Witwatersrand in 1886, Dutch Galway Castle were the British government as immigrants were encouraged sisterships to Gloucester

The intermediate liner Gloucester Castle on trials in 1911. NEWALL DUNN COLLECTION

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ABOVE Gloucester Castle at Cape Town in the early 1930s. JOHN H. MARSH COLLECTION, JOHN H. MARSH MARITIME RESEARCH CENTRE, IZIKO MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA

Type UB 11 coastal attack she was subsequently towed to The yarn went that there was Birkenhead for Cape Town submarine UB-32 commanded Southampton and repaired. She no other ship she could ever with 154 crew and passengers by Kapitänleutnant Max Viebeg remained in Red Cross work overtake on her usual route. In on board. She was one of only (1887-1961) in the English in the English Channel, and June 1939 she was laid up after a few passenger ships available Channel, while carrying spent more than a year in the a service life of 27 years. to civilians on the Cape run. patients between Le Havre and Mediterranean as hospital ship She had accommodation for Southampton. Only three of after 1918. Wartime service 200 passengers, but on this 399 passengers died during the She returned to the Union In September 1939, at the run there were only seven transfer to rescuing trawlers. Castle’s Intermediate Service outbreak of war and with the women and fi ve children going She was down at the stern, in the latter part of 1920, and requisitioning of several Union- to South Africa to join their but her bulkheads held, and was later put on Union-Castle’s Castle liners for government husbands and fathers. The round-Africa service, until the service, Gloucester Castle was crew consisted of 136, among arrival of Llandaff Castle in brought back to the England- whom were ten stewards, as 1926. Gloucester Castle then South Africa run. Despite well as a stewardess, a head reverted to the west coast her age and speed, she was waiter, two bar men, a bath intermediate run. By the 1920s needed to meet the British man, hairdresser and baggage Gloucester Castle had become Government’s dire shortage steward. They were needed on so slow in comparison to other of ships, but in spite of her the ship’s return journey to the ships that in the docks she shortcomings she gave three UK, transporting military staff was called the ‘Go-slow-ster’. years of good war service. trained in South Africa. The On 21 June 1942, under cargo consisted of machinery, the command of Captain H.H. military equipment, aircraft Rose, Gloucester Castle left and fuel. She was armed with

ABOVE A depiction of Gloucester Castle as Her Majesty’s Hospital Ship (HMHS) sinking after being torpedoed by the German Type UB 11 coastal attack submarine UB-32 on 31 March 1917. JOHN H. MARSH COLLECTION, IZIKO MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 39 HMHS Gloucester Castle, converted into a hospital ship with 410 beds, In the Mediterranean, possibly at Mudros. Another hospital ship can be seen in the background. After war service, she returned to the cross- Channel service with an occasional trip to the Mediterranean Newall Dunn Collection

a single 4.7-inch cannon and several machine guns. Auxiliary cruiser On 10 July 1942 Gloucester Michel (HSK‑9) Castle left from the convoy off the coast of and was The auxiliary cruiser Michel was routed for Cape Town. But she built by Danziger Werft in Danzig was never seen again, vanishing in 1938-39 as the freighter Bielsko without trace, and only in for Polish Gdynia-America-Line 1945, after the surrender of (GAL). She was requisitioned by the Japan, did information about at the outbreak of the last moments of Gloucester World War II and converted into the Castle become known – she had hospital ship Bonn. In the summer been attacked and sunk by the of 1941 she was converted into German raider Michel (HSK‑9), the auxiliary cruiser Michel, and an auxiliary cruiser that was known in the Kriegsmarine operated as a merchant raider as Schiff 28; her Royal Navy during World War II. designation was Raider H. She was the last operational German raider. The sinking She measured 132m (433ft) by By the evening of 15 July 1942 16.8m (55ft), and was powered by Gloucester Castle was almost ABOVE Gloucester Castle at Cape Town harbour, probably in 1939. A small two MAN eight-cylinder diesels, midway between Ascension contingent of soldiers are unloading their luggage from a Union Defence Force totalling 6,650shp (4,889MW). Island and the African coast, off truck preparatory to embarking. JOHN H. MARSH COLLECTION, JOHN H. MARSH MARITIME Angola. It was hot and humid. RESEARCH CENTRE, IZIKO MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA von Ruckteschell, then raked The officers dressed for dinner Gloucester Castle with machine and prepared to join the ladies. gun fire at close range. The However, not all the passengers wireless room was demolished were in the dining saloon. Four and all three radio officers were of the women were putting killed. Captain Rose was mown their children to bed and others down and killed by machine- were not yet ready to eat. At gun fire. The mother of 1900, in the dark and with 18-year-old Rosemary Radford the ship blacked out, a shell was killed instantly as she and hit near the bridge area and a one of the engineer officers second hit the dining saloon, entered the dining saloon. setting alight aircraft fuel By that time the ship was stored in drums on the deck. being evacuated and survivors Some on board were killed were taking to the lifeboats, instantly and others soon after. among them 21-year-old Mrs Michel, commanded by Joan Sieve and her two-year- Fregattenkapitän (later ABOVE A superb company postcard of Gloucester Castle, with artwork by the old son, from Knutsford, Kapitän zur See) Helmuth renowned maritime artist Maurice Randall. Newall Dunn Collection Cheshire. Holding her son,

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returned to Japan. The fate ABOVE Postcard of Gloucester Castle. of the last victim of Michel, Ron Ferguson Postcard Collection, the Norwegian tanker India, Merchant and Naval Collection E-J, John. H. Marsh Maritime Research Centre, Iziko was very similar to that of Museums of South Africa Gloucester Castle in that it was also not known until the end of Gloucester Castle the war. The Norwegian vessel Builder Fairfield SB & Eng Co was sunk on 11 September Ltd, Glasgow 1943 with all hands. Owner Union-Castle Mailship As she returned to Japan, Steam Co Ltd when just 60 miles from port, Launched 13.5.1911, delivered she was getting into No.3 boat The survivors were taken Michel was sighted by the 8.1911, maiden on the port side when the to Singapore in the former US submarine Tarpon, which voyage 9.1911 ship suddenly listed the other captured Norwegian tanker attacked her, hitting her with Port of London, homeport way, hurling the lifeboat into Charlotte Schliemann, , which three torpedoes. This attack Registry Liverpool space, and the woman and acted as a back-up supply was one of the few instances of Tonnage 7,999grt, 4,974 net child into the sea. They were vessel for von Ruckteschell. In American submarines attacking never seen again. Two middle- Singapore many of the deck and German vessels during World Dimensions 137.98m x 17.13m x 9.36m aged women could not get engine crew and stewards were War II. The German raider sank down the snaking ladder into sent to work for the Japanese. with 290 of her crew, including Engines Quadruple expansion, 3,750ihp, twin screws, a lifeboat and returned to their The rest were taken to Japan, her captain. There were 116 722nhp accommodation, preferring to arriving at Yokohama after a survivors, who reached Japan Decks 3 plus 1 partial deck go down with Gloucester Castle. difficult trip of three months after a three-day journey in Two port lifeboats got away. in the tanker. Until Japan open boats, while scores of Passengers 87 first, 130 second, 195 third class Gloucester Castle sank capitulated in August 1945, other men had been left on 3 3 suddenly and within minutes of they worked under dismal rafts and floating wreckage. Capacity 410.6m (14,500ft ); 1920: 590.43m3 the devastating attack. Some of conditions as Japanese prisoners The Japanese Navy however, (20,851ft3) of the shocked German attackers in the Osaka docks, and two of reported that search aircraft refrigerated space said it took four minutes, while them died during captivity. had seen nothing. This caused Fate Sunk by German another source said it was about On 21 May 1943, after some controversy among raider Michel ten minutes. Amid the death a refit,Michel sailed from German Navy officers in Japan (HSK-9), 15.7.1942, and destruction, Michel headed Yokohama, but under the and at Naval Headquarters in approximately 750 for the remaining and shattered command of Kapitän zur See Germany, with the Japanese miles off Ascension lifeboat, around which people Günther Gumprich. Along the seeming to have a blasé attitude Route Liverpool–Cape Town were floating on life jackets. west coast of Australia and the towards possible German The raider sent her own boat coast of , she survivors. But this event ended BELOW Gloucester Castle at Gravesend, to rescue survivors and German sank three more ships over a the war cruises of German with a tug alongside and a tender near sailors moved with professional five-month period, and then auxiliary commerce raiders. the gangway. Newall Dunn Collection skill, diving into the water to rescue people who might be alive, starting with women and children, and then crew. Of Gloucester Castle’s complement of 154, only 61 were saved, including four of her 12 passengers. The remainder drowned, while on board Michel the rescued survivors were surrounded by German sailors armed with machine- guns as prisoners of war. And less than 24 hours later the raider made her next kill.

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42 • May2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com The Hurtigruten liner Midnatsol participating in the Fjordsteam 2013 during the last part of her voyage from Kirkenes to Bergen. The 1,432gt Norway-flagged Sandnes (1950) is a former overnight ferry operating between Stavanger and Bergen. BERNT SORTLAND

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The small coaster Griftborg arriving at Great Yarmouth with a shipment of fertiliser. Built in the Netherlands in 1995, she was completed on 29 March 1995, and can carry 261 containers. Between 2012 and 2014, she was named Lehmann Fjord. She is powered by a single Stork-werkspoor 85w280 four-stroke single- acting eight-cylinder diesel engine. LEE SETTERS

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 43 The JMSDF’s minesweeper tender Pentland Ferries’ 70m by 20m Viking Ocean Cruises’ 47,800gt MST 463 Uraga at the JMSDF Fleet 2007-built catamaran ferry Pentalina cruise ship Viking Star arriving at Review in Sagami Bay in October (2,382gt) en route from Gills Bay, Valletta, Malta on 2 February. She 2015. The 6,850 full displacement Caithness to St Margaret’s Hope, entered service in April 2015, having ship was built in 1997 measures Orkney in the afternoon January been built by Fincantieri, Italy, 141m by 22m and has a top speed sunshine, with the Flotta Oil Terminal and can carry a maximum of 930 of 22 knots. Mitsuhiro Kadota in the background. Magnus Budge passengers. Gaetano Spiteri

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The 23,498gt vehicle carrier Elbe Highway (2005) arriving at the Port of Tyne on 17 January from St Petersburg. She is operated by K Line European Sea Highway Services (KESS), one of the major short sea carrier operators in Europe, which transports up to 800,000 units a year. The service network covered by KESS includes the North Sea and the Baltic. Ken Short

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 45 The business of shortsea shipping Scotline started cotline was formed Sweden. The liner service was boxhold vessels, operating four operations in 1979 in 1979 when a fi rst fi rst inaugurated in 1981, with independent forest product forest product cargo the ships carrying packaged terminals at Inverness, Gunness carrying a cargo of of Scots Spruce poles Swedish sawn timber from on the river Trent and two sites logs from Inverness was carried from Varberg to Inverness; this is a at Rochester on the Medway. InvernessS to . Regular joint venture between Scotline In the early days the service to Varberg; today, the shipments of logs developed, and Scotlog Sales. operated using chartered company operates a with loading taking place in Today, Scotline operates vessels, and this continued until small fleet of shortsea Inverness of logs to be shipped established trade routes 1994, when Scotline Marine to Varberg on the west coast of between Sweden, Denmark, Holdings Ltd, a close business coasters, which Germany, Ireland, Norway, the partner, purchased its fi rst vessel, transports a high Baltic States and the UK. The Hohebank, which was taken on company proudly proclaims time charter by Scotline. Their percentage of all the ‘shipping is our business’ and fl eet has since expanded to eight softwood shipped from owns a fl eet of eight modern modern box-hold vessels, with Sweden into the UK, as Nicholas Leach explains.

ABOVE Hohebank just passing under the Kessock Bridge at Inverness.

46 • May 2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com COMPANY PROFILE The business of shortsea shipping a further three vessels under consumption, as well as lower commercial management. running costs and maintenance. The company’s head offi ce It has been found that keeping was originally in Holborn, older vessels beyond a certain London, but was later moved age is generally a false economy. to Romford in Greater London, Scotline’s philosophy is to where it can still be found maintain the ships to keep today. Further offi ces are sited them in good order, as well as on each of the terminals, with looking after their appearance a separate base at Rochester for with regular fresh paint. This the chartering and technical helps to retain their resale value teams used by Scotline. and reduce long-term costs. Scotline operates vessels under Scotline purchased Scot 90m in length overall in order Ranger in 1997. The longest- to meet the restrictions at some serving ship in the fl eet, she ABOVE The 2,595gt Scot Isles is a of the ports that are visited, came as a newbuild from stalwart member of the fleet. and so the ships’ operations Yorkshire drydock. Scot are as fl exible as possible in Mariner and Scot Venture terms of services and schedules. were launched in 2001 and Hohebank and Emsland were 2002 respectively, and were two of the company’s fi rst both purpose-built at the Tille vessels, but have since been shipyard in Kootstertille, North disposed of as the company Holland when the company regularly renews its fl eet. was unable to fi nd suitable All of the ships are pure box tonnage in the market. These vessels, fi tted out appropriately two larger ships have proved to and ideal for the cargoes they be among the company’s most carry. The fl eet is kept relatively reliable, and are ideal for the young, which means low fuel liner services operated.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 47 ABOVE The hull of Somers Isles being built; this was later renamed Scot Isles when purchased by Scotline in 2006. Since Scot Venture and Scot Mariner had proved so effective, Scotline purchased Somers Isles, their sister vessel, to increase capacity. BELOW The 1997-built Scot Carrier with a cargo of timber.

Scot Explorer and Scot Carrier cent less than that of the other to be the most suitable vessel at were purchased within six the vessels. a time when Scotline needed to ABOVE Scot Venture passes nder the months of each other in 2005. Not only can they increase its tonnage. Kessock bridge, approaching Inverness. Built at the Oltenita shipyard cover smaller cargoes very The most recent addition to in Romania, they are designed economically, they can be the fleet isScot Trader, which having a high cubic capacity of for loading timber to smaller crewed by only six. The other was built in 2008 at Factoria nearly 200,000ft3. She also has ports. They are Scotline’s vessels in the fleet typically have Naval de Marin in Pontevedra, the distinction of carrying the smallest owned vessels at a crew of seven to eight. Scot Spain and purchased by company’s largest ever timber around 2,500dwt, and have Pioneer, purchased in 2008, Scotline in 2014, having been cargo, totalling 5,600m3, from retractable wheelhouses, has proved to be a very good built as Penafiel. At 4,624dwt, Varberg into Rochester. enabling them to cover project timber carrier with a nearly she is the company’s largest The Scotline liner service is cargoes and function in place of pure box hold. She was built in vessel, while still being timber- based around Forest products, barges when required. The fuel 2006 at Scheepswerf Peters in fitted and under 90m in length. but the company also handles consumption is around 50 per Kampen. Again, she was found She is ideal for the liner service, bulk and project cargoes.

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The Scotline terminal at Rochaester on the Medway..

ABOVE Scot Pioneer is one of the SCOTLINE FLEET 2015 newest ships in the Scotline fleet. Name Built Dimensions Tonnage Builder Speed SCOT MARINER 2001 89.98m x 13.75m x 4.92m 2,594gt, 1,395 net Kootstertille, North Holland 13.5 knots SCOT EXPLORER 2002 89.98m x 13.75m x 4.92m 2,602gt, 1,395 net Oltenita, Romania 13.5 knots Scotline’s original operation SCOT VENTURE 2002 89.98m x 13.75m x 4.92m 2,602gt, 1,395 net Kootstertille, North Holland 13.5 knots at Inverness was subsequently expanded, with operations SCOT CARRIER 1997 81.9m x 12.4m x 4.25m 1,882gt, 1,020 net Oltenita, Romania 10 knots added at Whitstable in Kent, SCOT TRADER 2008 89.5m x 13.7m x 6.01m 2,956gt, 1,558gt Navel De Marin, Spain 11 knots using a rented facility in the SCOT RANGER 1997 84.9m x 12.6m x 5.11m 2,260gt, 1,128 net Yorkshire Dry Dock 11 knots early 1990s, and Goole in SCOT ISLES 2001 89.95m x 13.75m x 4.93m 2,595gt, 1,402 net Kootstertille, Holland 14.25 knots Yorkshire. In 1994 a new SCOT PIONEER 2006 89.99m x 12.5m x 5.31m 2,528gt, 1,052 net Peters Shipyard, Kampen 13 knots terminal was purchased in RIVER TRADER* 1989 58.27m x 9.4m x 3.9m 794gt, 552 net Rochester and in 2010 the DOUWENT* 1987 79.9m x 11.2m x 3.72m 1,311gt, 723 net company moved from Goole *Managed vessels All vessels are Box-shaped Singledecker types to Gunness on the river Trent. The Rochester terminal was with the acquisition of the and eight acres of secure open Transit sheds with 25,000m2 purchased in 1994, and the site second terminal that is owned storage. Acquiring this extra of space and silos offer a more on the banks of the Medway by Scotline Terminal (Transit) land meant that the number of flexible solution and enable a is owned by Scotline Terminal Ltd. The 14-acre site, again on berths was increased from two wide range of different cargoes, (Medway) Ltd. the banks of Medway, added to five, and the land available including timber, pulp and Originally ten acres in size, it 25,000m2 of covered storage went from 11 to 25 acres. cement, to be handled. was much larger than the site being used at Whitstable. Since then, the Rochester terminal has been further expanded, with the company purchasing more land, enabling it to build two large warehouses, office facilities, secure storage for equipment and a base for an engineering team, to look after the ships and terminals. Medway is a dedicated timber terminal which houses Intrada Engineering Ltd. This is one of a number of separate companies that Scotline runs, each of which has separate liabilities. Scotline had been looking to expand for a number of years in Rochester, and was Scot Mariner was built in 2001. able to do so in January 2011

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 49 Dazzle camouflage Dene Bebbington explains how an artist helped to reduce shipping losses during World War I by the use of dazzle camouflage on ships.

he museum ship of Britain’s dwindling fleet. HMS Belfast, German U-boats tried to a light cruiser blockade Britain during the commissioned in 1914-18 war, and succeeded 1938, moored in sinking many merchant onT the Thames in London, ships that were transporting has a paint scheme known as food and raw materials across dazzle camouflage, and is a the Atlantic. In January 1917 fine example of a technique the situation worsened when employed to protect both Germany began a campaign of merchant and naval ships which unrestricted submarine warfare, dates back to World War I, deploying a large fleet of U-boats, when an artist came to the aid 46 of which could operate in

ABOVE A photograph from World War I showing a ship in the process of being dazzle-painted. By courtesy Roy R. Behrens

deep water, intended to sink concern in the Royal Navy ships which were transporting that the scale of shipping losses goods to England, and included was so great it would have ships being operated by neutral a significant impact on the countries. The Germans had country. Late in 1916 Admiral been reluctant to carry out such John Jellicoe warned that Britain a policy as many ships came might have to sue for peace by the from America, and sinking one summer of 1917 if the shipping of their ships risked ending losses continued, with over America’s neutrality, but from 500 merchant ships being sunk 1917 they began this campaign. between February and April 1917. ABOVE HMS Belfast at her London berth on the Thames. Even before 1917 there was Some defensive tactics had

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How does dazzle camouflage work? azzle was intended to work and speed had to be estimated, Dby breaking up the form of a within a certain margin of error, ship. If the dazzle patterns were before the submarine positioned done correctly then an observer’s itself for firing. perception of a ship’s bow and stern Wilkinson had realised that the could be disrupted. The critical aspects key was to disrupt the form of a ship of orientation, speed and heading of since other paint schemes could Dazzle camouflage the ship needed for targeting by a not reliably camouflage it. Through submarine could be made unclear. experience, the patterns and colours A Royal Navy aircraft carrier converted from an Submarines often fired their applied were refined. By the war’s ocean liner in dazzle camouflage, circa 1918. torpedoes from thousands of yards end, the palette of colours had Courtesy US Naval History and Heritage Command away in a direction ahead of the ship, been reduced mainly to blue, black so that the two would collide. For this and white. Diagonals or curves were to be successful, the ship’s heading favoured over vertical lines.

Diagram by Norman Wilkinson for dazzle-painting a British ship, circa 1917.

ABOVE The seaplane carrier HMS Nairana in circa 1918 showing her in dazzle camouflage. Courtesy US Naval History and Heritage Command ABOVE A news photograph of Norman Wilkinson in 1970 (the year before he died), holding one of his World War I dazzle-painted ship models. already been tried against the such paint schemes had proved U-boats, including the Q-Ships. only partially effective and did These were freighters or trawlers not work in all types of weather with hidden weaponry, sometimes and sea conditions. Gray flying flags of neutral countries, worked in some conditions, which tried to lure U-boats to but in others a vessel’s outline the surface near the ship. They was clearly visible. In some would then mount a surprise cases destroyers were painted attack on the unsuspecting on the sides of a ship, with the submarine with their guns. intention of deceiving U-boats Another method was the use into thinking they were at risk of camouflage on ships. Previous from naval ships. attempts to camouflage ships were based on the traditional An artist’s idea method of trying to make It was the artist Norman ABOVE A bewildering geometric camouflage scheme applied to the USS Destroyer them difficult to see against the Wilkinson, a specialist in L. K. Swenson during World War II. Courtesy US Naval History and Heritage Command background of sea and sky. But marine painting, who came up

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 51 The minelayer HMS London seen circa 1918 in dazzle camouflage. Courtesy US Naval History and Heritage Command

to have first scoffed at the troop ship, describing its camouflage as an ‘advertisement’. However, U-21 was rammed by the troop ship when it surfaced in the wrong position, and U-16 narrowly avoided the same fate by diving just in time. ABOVE Everett L. Warner (seated, far Dazzle was again used left) painting wooden ship models in World War II, but the at the US Navy’s Camouflage Design development of radar and other Section in Washington DC, circa 1918. such technology eventually made it obsolete. There in a curve or oblique angle in has been debate about how front of a plain painted model, effective dazzle camouflage the intact model seemed to be really was, but it probably did ABOVE The Australian troop ship Zealandia, one of the ships which transported oriented with the blocks. Some play a role in reducing shipping the American Expeditionary Force to France in World War I. She also saw service in American dazzle schemes acted losses. An indirect benefit may World War II. Flickr Commons as optical illusions to make the also have been to boost the ship look curved, or ridged. morale of crews serving on with the idea known as dazzle to similar ships, and different A more serious problem than dazzle camouflaged ships. painting while serving in the patterns were used for the missing their dazzle-painted • The author would like to thank Royal Navy during the War. In starboard and port sides, while targets faced the U-boats. Roy R. Behrens (Professor of Art America it was also known as naval ships were also painted in In one incident, boats U-16 at the University of Northern baffle painting, and sometimes dazzle camouflage. and U-21 had tried to sink Iowa) for his help and permission razzle dazzle. Rather than Dazzle designs were tested a large troop transport. The to use information from his books making ships harder to see, this using a trial and error approach. commander of U-16 is reported False Colors and Ship Shape. style of painting was intended A wooden model of a vessel to distort visual perception. It was painted with a test pattern was influenced by the short- and mounted on a platform on lived British art movement of which sky backgrounds could 1914-15 known as Vorticism. be varied. Viewing the model Using geometric patterns, the through a periscope would Vorticists produced striking yet then enable an assessment to abstract paintings. be made of how well the dazzle Though Wilkinson tends to scheme worked. Diagrams get the credit for originating were produced for the most dazzle painting, the lesser successful patterns and used known zoologist John Graham at the docks where painting Kerr had submitted a similar of the ship was overseen by idea, inspired by camouflage in artists working for the naval nature, to the Admiralty earlier camouflage unit. in the war. But despite some Wilkinson helped the trials, the Admiralty decided Americans to create their own not to go ahead with it and camouflage unit in 1918, when opted instead for a uniform he went there to meet Franklin gray colouring on its ships. D. Roosevelt, then Assistant However, the Admiralty Secretary of the Navy. As a was persuaded of the value of result, a further discovery was dazzle camouflage by 1917 and made by the artist Everett L. in October that year ordered all Warner, who worked in the ABOVE HMS M33, an M29 class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915, has been merchant ships, whether armed Washington subdivision. If a restored in dry dock at Portsmouth with dazzle camouflage. She is one of only or not, to be dazzle painted. model of a dazzle-painted ship three surviving Royal Navy warships of World War I and the only surviving ship Standard designs were applied was cut into blocks and laid out from the Gallipoli Campaign.

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SHIP OF THE MONTH BRITTANY FERRIES’ ENGLISH CHANNEL WORKHORSE

Mont St Michel Home from home Russell Plummer Richard Joliffe, who takes a look at went to sea in 1970 as a Mont St Michel, the Radio Of­ cer with the biggest passenger, International Marine car and freight Radio Company, describes carrier in Brittany six years working on the Ferries’  eet. tanker Esso Scotia.

Australian Bays Roy Fenton looks at ­ ve passenger-cargo ships that were once the despair of their operator but went on to be useful, and in one case, immortal.

PLUS Teignmouth pro le • The port of Teignmouth in Devon handles a variety of cargoes with ships coming from the near continent and beyond. Seychelles shipping • A look at shipping in the Seychelles, where the main port has been threatened by piracy and suffers dwindling cruise calls.

www.shipsmonthly.comwww.shipsmonthly. • Novembercom • May 2011 2016 •• 5353 A o ectin  a e ’ n photographs Auckland welcomed 35 different cruise ships during the 2015-16 season, a record number, although it looks like the 2016-17 will see even more ships. Among the notable recent visitors were Princess Cruises’ Golden Princess, Costa’s , Holland America’s Noordam and RCL’s Explorer of the MaitimeSeas, all maiden callers and all before the height of the season, between mid-January and late March. Seapixonline’s Trevor Coppock was on hand to photograph the ships calling at the New Zealand port.

ABOVE The 2009-built Costa Luminosa (92,720gt) sailed from MosaiAuckland, bound for Paihia in the Bay of Islands, on 2 November 2015, following her maiden call. She is the second of the Costa fleet to sail Kiwi waters in recent years, her fleetmate (2010/92,720gt) having been here between 2012 and 2015.

LEFT RCL’s 2000-built Explorer of the Seas (138,194gt), the largest cruise ship to call at a New Zealand port (the larger Ovation of the Seas arrives later this year), departed Auckland bound for Tauranga and a 13-night coastal cruise following her maiden call on 6 December 2015. The almost identical Voyager of the Seas (1999) also made several calls around NZ this season, continuing her successful introduction to the NZ scene in 2012.

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ABOVE Princess Cruises’ 2001-built Golden Princess (108,865gt) arrived from Melbourne on the morning of 29 November 2015 for the first of eight scheduled calls at Auckland during the six-month-long cruise season.

ABOVE RIGHT Although not a maiden caller and having been to Auckland three times as Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Harmony, NYK’s 1990-built Asuka II called on 24 December 2015 for the first time since 2009.

RIGHT Holland America’s Noordam (2006/82,897gt) made the first of several visits to the City of Sails on 8 November 2015. She replaced Oosterdam (2003), which was a regular visitor to New Zealand waters between 2012 and 2015.

BELOW The 2002-built Carnival Legend (85,942gt) arrived in Auckland on 2 January direct from Sydney, having dropped her scheduled call at the Bay of Islands due to unseasonally wet and wild weather. She became the first Carnival-brand ship in Auckland since 2013.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 55 CRUISE BRITAIN A photographic diary of a cruise around the British Isles Taking a cruise around the British Isles has become increasingly popular, and David Brown’s trip on Royal Princess provided him with a great opportunity to see Britain and Ireland’s modern maritime shipping scene.

n the last few years, provided a fi ne opportunity differentiate them. In the below, can be viewed. Many taking a cruise around to see Britain’s and Ireland’s case of Royal Princess it is passengers were uncomfortable the British Isles has maritime shipping scene and the SeaWalk, a cantilevered walking or even standing on the become increasingly maritime history. structure on decks 16 and 17 glass panels, but they missed a popular. It affords cruise The two-year-old Royal which extends 28ft over the unique photo opportunity. Ipassengers an opportunity to Princess, the fi rst of her class, ship’s side. On the port side it Departing Southampton, our visit castles and cathedrals, to carried nearly 3,800 passengers has an enclosed bar and on the fi rst port of call was Guernsey in see highlands and lowlands, on this cruise, and offered starboard side it is open. the Channel Islands. Since the lakes and lochs, and visit cities many comforts. When a new Both SeaWalks have inlaid harbour at St Peter Port is too and towns. With ten ports and class of ships is introduced by glass panels on the lower deck, small for large cruise ships to two sea days on a 12-day cruise, any cruise company, something through which the sea and the berth, Royal Princess anchored, Royal Princess (141,000gt) also is nearly always included to promenade deck, eight decks and passengers were taken

Princess Cruises’ Italian-built cruise ship Royal Princess departs Southampton on another cruise. DARREN HOLDAWAY

56 • May 2016 • www.shipsmonthly.com PHOTO DIARY ashore in the tenders. Berthed Bay. There is no turning in the harbour was Condor basin in the port for larger Ferries’ Condor Liberation, cruise ships, and, in order preparing for a morning to berth, large ships turn in departure to Poole. Built in Dublin Bay and enter stern 2010 by Austral Shipbuilders in fi rst, then passing between the Australia, she is capable of 39 breakwaters and going upriver knots and sailed in the morning to the berth, a distance of over for her passage to the UK. fi ve nautical miles. Effi cient After an overnight run, port tractor tugs escorted and Cobh was the next port, where assisted us. Dublin is a busy activity was light, with no large port: ferries to and from the ships. The Irish Navy had its UK entered and left during the ships tucked in their base at day and cruise ships are regular Haulbowline on the opposite callers in the summer. ABOVE Royal Princess’ port side enclosed ‘SeaView’ bar, looking aft. side of the harbour from the After Dublin, an overnight cruise berth. One of the navy run saw Royal Princess berthed ships had recently returned under the watchful eyes of from the Mediterranean after the Liver Birds atop the Liver undertaking humanitarian Building in Liverpool the rescue missions. Cobh is next morning. Liverpool is probably best known as the last another busy port, and on port of call for Titanic. a heavily overcast day the After an overnight sailing to most colourful sight was the Dublin, we arrived at Dublin multicoloured Mersey Ferry

ABOVE One of Royal Princess’ tenders returning to the ship, having taken passengers ashore at St Peter Port, Guernsey.

ABOVE Royal Princess’ starboard side ‘SeaWalk’ glass panel, inlaid into the deck, provides a dramatic view of the Promenade Deck eight decks below.

ABOVE An in Belfast on the eastern shore, opposite the cruise berth.

www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 57 ABOVE The 1996-built ro-pax ferry Stena Hibernia in Belfast. She operates across the Irish Sea to Birkenhead or Cairnryan.

ABOVE The diving support vessel Harkand Da Vinci in the Firth of Forth. Built in 2011 in Pusan, South Korea, the 8,691gt vessel was previously named Gulmar Da Vinci and Iremis Da Vinci.

Snowdrop, resplendent in her ‘razzle dazzle’ paint scheme, commemorating the centenary of World War I artists who camouflaged ships to confuse U Boat commanders. The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co’s fast catamaran ferry Manannan berthed, disembarked passengers, embarked some more and sailed. Built in 1998 by Incat in Tasmania and capable of over 40 knots, she began her Irish Sea ferry service in 2008, after a five-year career in the US Navy. Across the Mersey at Birkenhead, the Stena ferry Stena Mersey to Belfast was at her berth and small coasters sailed via the lock at Seacombe into the Mersey and to sea. Further up the Mersey, also at ABOVE Launched in 2005 as Mersey Viking, the 26,500gt ro-pax ferry Stena Mersey berthed in Birkenhead on the Mersey, Birkenhead, were RFA ships where she loaded for her next crossing on the Birkenhead-Belfast route. undergoing refit at Cammell Laird’s yard. Adjacent to the dry dock is The next port of call was passenger ferry Sound of Soay Belfast was the halfway point HMS Caroline, a famous World Greenock. After three ports from Gourock to Hunters of the cruise. In the harbour, War I light cruiser which took in Ireland, this was the first of Quay, just north of Dunoon in after we had passed ferries at part in the Battle of Jutland three in Scotland. Greenock is Argyle and Bute. On this day their berths and large offshore and is undergoing restoration, described as ‘Gateway to the the Clyde was not busy, but oil industry rigs moored in being the only floating Highlands and the Islands’, arguably it had the best natural the channel, the ship berthed survivor of the battle, and one and a tour to the Scottish scenery of the cruise to date. opposite the dry dock where of Belfast’s most significant lochs included crossing the Our first full day at sea saw RMS Titanic fitted out. maritime residents. river Clyde on the vehicle and Royal Princess cruising through

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LEFT European Endeavour (22,152gt) departing the port of Dublin for Liverpool. Built in 2000 in Seville, Spain, she was previously Midnight Merchant and El Greco.

cruise ships berth at the old Admiralty pier. After our call at Invergordon, Queensferry on the Firth of Forth is the last call in Scotland, and we arrived there the following day. Leith, the port for Edinburgh, is too small for the large cruise ships and Royal Princess is too high to pass under the Forth Bridge to berth at Rosyth, so the ship anchored and tendered passengers to South Queensferry. Shipping traffic was light, but did include the dive support vessel Harkand Da Vinci, which was built in South Korea in 2011. Across to France Another full day at sea, en route to Le Havre, was the last sea day of the cruise. The sea, as it had been for the whole cruise, was calm. The weather throughout the cruise had been ROYAL PRINCESS cold for July and for the most part overcast with occasional Launched August 2012 rain. On the sea passages the Built June 2013 ship passed wind farms, oil DIMENSIONS 330m (1,083ft) x 38m platforms and the occasional (126ft) hardy sailors braving chill winds Tonnage 142,714gt and drizzle in their yachts. Main engines 2 x Wärtsilä 14V46f, Le Havre was the final port 2 x Wärtsilä 12V46f of call before we returned to SPEED 22 knots Southampton. It is the second CAPACITY 3,600 passengers largest port in France and is a major container port as well the Western Isles, passing as being a busy ferry terminal. between the Isle of Skye and ABOVE Baie de Seine, Brittany Ferries’ ro-pax ferry, departing Le Havre for Ships were entering and leaving Isles of Uist, Harris and Lewis, Portsmouth. Built in 2001 in Poland, the 22,382gt ferry was previously Golfo Dei throughout the day, and in the rounding Cape Wrath on the Delfini, Dana Sirena and Sirena Seaways. outer anchorage a number of far north west of Scotland, then ships were having to wait their through the Pentland Firth, turn to berth. before turning south towards We then had an early arrival Invergordon in the Cromarty in Southampton after a slow Firth and docking the next day. overnight run from Le Havre, Invergordon was a British naval which completed the cruise. As port, and offers a well-sheltered we were the first cruise ship to harbour with deep water dock, there was an opportunity sufficient for the battleships to watch the early morning stationed there. departure of the Red Funnel Latterly it was a hub for ferry Red Falcon to the Isle of the North Sea oil industry. Wight, followed by the arrival Both the navy and the oil of RCI’s Anthem of the Seas industry for the most part and then P&O’s Azura. As we have left, but with both were berthed at the new cruise leaving some remnants of their ABOVE The 96m wave-piercing catamaran Manannan departing Liverpool for the terminal, the tug Calshot was activities: oil rigs are moored isle of Man. She was built in Tasmania in 1998 and, between 2001 and 2007, was in conveniently adjacent for a final in the channel and visiting service with the US Navy as USS Joint Venture. photograph of the cruise.

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Write to Ships Mail, Ships Monthly, Kelsey Publishing, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berrys Hill, Cudham, the three-funnel liner is that she was Kent TN16 3AG, or email [email protected]. Please note that letters via email must enclose probably operated by P&O. sender’s full postal address. Contributions to Ships Monthly must be exclusive and must not Of special interest to me in the be sent to other publications. The editor reserves the right to edit material. Kelsey Publishing reserves the right to reuse any submission sent in any format. second picture is an Alfred Holt Blue Funnel vessel against the quay, which looks like one of Agamemnon, Menestheus, Deucalion, Memnon, Ajax or Sarpedon of 1928/29. To the left of the picture are two more Blue Flues, and I wonder if one of them is Clytoneus, on which my father made a Steamers on trip as ship’s surgeon in 1934. Brendan O’Farrell the Thames Banbury Regarding the article ‘Early Thames commuter services fail to thrive’ Queen Mary in 1950s (SM, Mar), I have a photo taken on 17 I found the information about the June 1905 of the Inauguration of the threatened blacklisting of Queen Mary LCC Passenger Steamer services. It (SM, Mar) and subsequent transfer of shows the Prince of Wales (later King passengers at Cherbourg by Ivernia George V) and his two sons, the Duke (II) on 25 March 1957, to and from of Windsor and the later King George ABOVE Flavia. ALLAN JORDAN Falmouth, to be most interesting, VI. The King is shaking hands with my and indicative of the sour labour great-grandfather, Captain Arthur Boat Race Day in the private launch. was master of Racoon, involved in relations of the day. Upon checking Owen, on King Alfred. The LCC appointment was a transhipment of cattle to Deptford my 12 February 1957 Cunard Sailings The Daily Mirror of 4 November small chapter in the life of an Market, Master of Koh-i-Noor and and Fares folder, I found that it was 1904, under a headline ‘Admiral of the extraordinary gentlemen who ran La , became a deep-sea Queen Elizabeth that was scheduled Thames’, announced Captain Owen’s away from home at 14 and became pilot for Trinity House (being twice into Cherbourg from New York on 25 appointment. His reported salary was ‘the boy in the boat’ engaged in torpedoed and surviving) and in his March, then Queen Mary a week later. £500 per annum, and he beat 290 warping ships. He was an apprentice later years was master of Southend In his book Pullman: The Pullman other applicants for the post. In his to a freeman of the river, worked Belle. They just don’t make people Car Company (1983), Julian Morel has colourful memoirs, he mentions one on collier brigs, went out with the like that anymore. Queen Mary arriving at Cherbourg of the many important duties was to seagoing paddle tugs working with Simon Brown on 2 April, and Ivernia (II) transferring inspect the piers on the University all the big clipper ships of the day, Newbury her passengers, in this case to Plymouth, where a boat train of nine Pullmans had been positioned to Paris in the Baltic a from an English MTB. I send Association’s members were on the take the ¦ rst class passengers on to Roy Fenton’s history of The Baltic you the painting (from 1911) of Paris ball with the Royal Navy ships, except London, presumably followed by at steamer (SM, Mar) includes a picture and a photograph of the later Paris. for HMS Hermes. The French vessels least one further boat train for the and short history of the steamship Harald Lorentzen caused some head scratching, as did masses. I wonder if Geoffrey got his Paris, but the vessel illustrated is Nesoddtangen, Norway the American cruiser. Queens mixed up, or perhaps the not Paris. There are no photographs With the bene¦ t of being able to dates? Or (less likely), did the Queens of Paris (built 1910 at Akers Mek Hong Kong quiz zoom in, I can tell that the nearest switch sailing dates after the folder’s Verksted), only a painting. I showed the Hong Kong photographs Destroyer (in position D) has pennant February publication? The picture shows the 1922-built (China Station, SM, Dec) at a meeting number 220, making her USS Macleish, Peter Dawes Paris, which was completed by Akers of The Britannia Naval Research a Clempson class ¨ ushdecker. In the Edmonton, Canada Mek Verksted (yard no.401) and Association as a ship recognition quiz. second photo H75 is HMS Decoy, H16 sailed on the Oslo-Antwerp route. The SM Editor kindly let me have the HMS Daring, H53 HMS Dainty and H22 Beer brewed on ships In August 1940 she was taken over digital images, which are remarkably HMS Diamond. Our group were not The article on beer ships (SM, Dec 2015) by Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine and detailed. The original was probably so good at identifying the merchant was most interesting, but there was an renamed MRS 4. In 1945 she was hit by taken with a full plate camera. The ships, and the best we could do for even more celebrated ship which, during

The steamship The motor vessel Paris, built 1910. Paris, built 1922.

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Not a Cunarder pictured in Montreal puzzle Help needed The curator of the Defence Of The the ship in the picture has to be Nea she also made voyages to Montreal. Nation Museum at the Ramsgate Hellas, or New York, as she became In 1950 her eastern terminus became Wartime Tunnels, Mike Taylor, is after 1955. The former Anchor Liner Bremerhaven, and in 1955 she was planning to put a display on the Tuscania (16,991gt) of 1922 bore renamed New York; she was broken Merchant Navy At War. He is keen a strong family resemblance to up in Japan in 1961. to obtain stories from our wartime Cunarders of the time, and even had Under Goulandris’ ownership, her merchant seafarers before a near-sister in the Cunard eet, the funnel had a very broad blue band their memories are gone. He is ill-fated Tyrrhenia, later Lancastria. separating a yellow base from a black interested in merchant seafarers’ Tuscania became Nea Hellas when top, which would square with what experiences during the wars, she was sold in April 1939 to the the postcard seems to show. The only possibly with photos, ˆ lm footage With regard to Peter Dawes’ Montreal General SN Co Ltd of Andros, Greece. y in the ointment is that it looks as and names of ships they served picture (SM, Jan) and assuming that Under their ownership, she plied the if the ship in the picture might have a on. The display will run alongside what we have is not simply a case North Atlantic route, initially from counter stern, which would rule out the Operation Dynamo – Dunkirk of tinting with an arbitrary and Mediterranean ports to either New Nea Hellas, as she had a cruiser stern. Evacuation exhibition currently inappropriate colour, I believe that York or Halifax, although post-war Christy MacHale, Crosby, Liverpool in situ. If any wartime merchant seafarer feels able to contribute World War II, not only transported beer New Zealand government ofˆ ce in the lubricated with enclosed crankcase. to this display, they should contact but actually brewed it on board. During Strand asking if this was the case. My Solidarity was converted to oil ˆ ring Mike Taylor at miketaylor47@ the War the NAAFI exported 380 father replied, and received a second using the Scotch Boiler and associated hotmail.co.uk or his colleague million bottles of beer for the troops, letter conˆ rming that the New Zealand equipment from HMS Honeysuckle, Robin Martin at robingmartin2@ but in 1944, when it seemed that the press would be notiˆ ed that he was a Flower class corvette. The boiler gmail.com. Any assistance would war with Japan it might be prolonged, alive and well. I asked my father why suffered an ingress of seawater, be most welcome. the Admiralty converted Menestheus, the press believed he had been on causing the port furnace crown to which had been requisitioned from Royal Oak when she went down. His bulge and be replaced. On 4 March Holt’s Blue Funnel line for a mine layer, only thoughts were that somehow 1951 Solidarity foundered in heavy was living in Durban, having emigrated into a oating brewery. an item with his name on it had been weather off Ona Lighthouse on the to South Africa with my parents in July Sea water was pumped aboard and found which had originally been with West Coast of Norway. 1948. The ship was open to the public distilled, and, with the addition of malt him on the sistership Revenge and had Malin Head, a sistership of Solidarity and, for a small boy, it was quite an extract and hop concentrate, beer was ended up on the Royal Oak. from the same yard, also had an Ajax adventure to be shown around her. I produced in nine days. On one ˆ ve- David Toy Uni ow Engine, which suffered a collected press cuttings showing the month trip Menestheus served more Seaford, East Sussex crankcase explosion on 20 April 1950, cruiser arriving in Durban for the ˆ rst than 40,000 men. I imagine crewing after which the Chief Engineer died in time on 11 March 1951. her was never a problem. After the war Baltic Traders hospital from the injuries he received. The ship’s bell was donated to a local she returned to her peacetime role, The article on Baltic Traders (SM, A crankcase explosion in a steam Durban High School (DHS) in memory and Holts kept her name in their eet Mar) was of considerable interest, engine probably never happened in of three old boys of the school who with a 8,510-ton replacement in 1958. particularly the photos and details the history of the British Merchant had been killed while on board the Roger Carter of the British- and American-built Fleet, but maybe others know cruiser HMS Neptune when she was New Zealand ships during World War II. I was an differently? struck by four mines while she and the apprentice at F. T. Everard when the David Cross, Dartford rest of force K were pursuing an enemy Royal Oak Company purchased Ashbel Hubbard convoy off . The men were Lt D. J. The article on Royal Oak (Dec 2015) and renamed her Solidarity; she had Bermuda in Durban Bullimore, Able Seaman R. M. Campbell brought back memories of two letters an Ajax Uni ow steam engine as main The article on HMS Bermuda (SM, Mar) and Signaller B. N. Kermack. which were sent to my late father machinery, which was a rarity in the was most interesting. I remember the Henry C. Aitken in 1940 regarding the report that British Merchant eet, being force cruiser visiting Durban in March 1951. I Norwich he was on the ship when she went down in . My father, born in Wellington, New Zealand, was in Queen Elizabeth 2: uncertain future in Dubai the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, and served on the cruisers Diomede and Dunedin. He sailed on Diomede to Chatham Dockyard, where a reˆ t was carried out between January and December 1930. During this time in the UK he was temporarily transferred to the battleship HMS Revenge, but returned to New Zealand on Diomede after her reˆ t. He left the navy in 1933 and, three years later, moved to the UK with While in Dubai in January, I was her. Apparently there are difˆ culties costly, so ˆ nance would be a problem. my mother and worked on submarine interested to see QE2 has moved with converting her into a hotel under It looks increasingly likely that she will engines in Chatham Dockyard. from her Dubai Drydocks berth to Dubai regulations. While a UK group remain unconverted for some time. When Royal Oak was lost, he was No.1 Cruise Terminal at Port Rashid. has expressed interest in bringing Ian Buxton reported missing in the New Zealand It appears no work is being done to her to London, that would be hugely Newcastle press, and was sent a letter from the

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she became a hospital troopship and played a major support role in the Battle of El Alamein. She was sold of in 1956 to North German Lloyd Line book as their † nal “ agship, re† tted and renamed Bremen, something that sparked protest in France, but Bremen themonth sailed on as the pride of Germany. Though she was considered one Elders & Fyffes: popular fruit. And of the safest liners ever built, Filipinas the nation’s desire Saudi 1, as she was then known, sank in A Photographic for bananas is closely 1980 in the , bringing to History linked to the history of post-war era they were a common an end a long and illustrious career. This Campbell McCutcheon Elders & Fyffes, a company set up to sight in the ports of Avonmouth, book tells the story of the distinguished Published by Amberley Publishing, import the fruit into the UK. Bristol, Southampton, Portsmouth, vessel in detail, with numerous colour The Hill, Merrywalks, Stroud, Originally, British imports were Garston, Manchester, Liverpool, photos, ephemera, maps and a variety Gloucestershire, GL5 4EP, www. of the small Cavendish banana from Glasgow and Cardiff. of other illustrations. EF-L amberley-books.com, 128 page the Canaries, but the government This photographic history of • Published by The History Press, The softback, price £19.99 plus postage was keen to see trade from the West the company comprises getting Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucs Indies, and in 1901 Elders & Fyffes on for 200 photos of the ships GL5 2QG, tel 01453 883300, www. was formed to import and distribute that were operated, as well as a thehistorypress.co.uk, price £19.99. Bananas began to be imported bananas. The † rst ships arrived in 1902, variety of other images related into Britain at the end of the 19th and the company grew and grew. to the production and trading of century, and today they can be found During both world wars ships from bananas. The photos are arranged in every supermarket and corner the “ eet of Elders & Fyffes served as chronologically and include some shop in Britain, the country’s most armed merchant cruisers, and in the early images of banana ships. NL

Bismarck and Yamato included. In photographs with detailed captions, most cases just one vessel from a class together with personal recollections, is featured, so it seems strange that maps and stories, providing a picture the sister battleships Bismarck and of the experience of whaling in the Tirpitz are each featured separately. Arctic, South Georgia and around An introductory chapter looks Shetland itself. Chapters cover the at developments in design and ships themselves, from the early Down Amongst the construction, and at armoured whalers to factory ships, as well as Black Gang innovations, and includes a few black looking at life on board a whaler and Richard P. de Kerbrech Warships From the and white photos. The book provides the whole industry that grew up Golden Age of Steam: little new for the serious historian, but around catching whales. NL Providing † nely-detailed descriptions An Illustrated Guide to Great is of interest to the general reader. NH • Published by Publisher Shetland of a world away from the upperdeck Warships From 1860 to 1945 • Published by Amber Books, Ex-Whaler’s Association, Lerwick, 184 life of the passenger liners of the early David Ross Casemate UK, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, pages, paperback, price £20, available 20th century, while using Titanic as Oxford, OX1 2EW, tel 01865 241249, from shetlandheritageshop.com. a starting point, this book describes More than 100 different battleships, casematepublishing.co.uk, price the operation of the stokeholds and battle cruisers, turret ships, monitors £19.99 plus p&p. engine rooms of such vessels and and armoured ships are featured in those who manned them – the Black this celebration of capital ships since Gang. Photographs from both Titanic the power of steam was harnessed and Olympic, together with other for marine propulsion. Two pages liners of the era, illustrate the grime, are devoted to each ship, one an endless toil and appalling working annotated full colour pro† le artwork conditions of those who ensured the and the other background text on continuous operation of these large the vessel’s development and service coal-fuelled ships. history, and technical speci† cations. Written by an ex-Shaw Savill marine Vessels are arranged in order of SS Pasteur/TS Bremen engineer and later naval architect, the year of build and include examples Andrew Britton volume includes many † nely drawn from Great Britain, France, Germany, technical illustrations of key machinery the Netherlands, China, Brazil, Spain, In the post-war era, TS Bremen components to show a detailed USA, Russia, Japan and Italy, beginning Shetland’s Whaling was one of the most popular liners knowledge of reciprocating and with the US monitor Monadnock Tradition operating across the Atlantic, and she turbine steamer operation, providing dating from 1864, and concluding with Laureen Johnson had a remarkable wartime career. Built a rare glimpse into those tasks the 1944-built USS Guam. The ships for the French as Pasteur, she made a undertaken ‘down below’. AB span numerous con“ icts, including This thorough and well-illustrated dramatic escape in the face of invasion • Published by The History Press, The the Russo-Japanese War, Spanish- volume provides an insight into in 1940, carrying 200 tons of French Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucs American War, World Wars I and II, with the history and memories of gold bullion reserves to Halifax, Nova GL5 2QG, www.thehistorypress.co.uk, classics such as Dreadnought, Hood, Shetland whalers. There are over 200 Scotia. Requisitioned by the British, 191 pages, price £14.99.

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This month’s mystery ship is an old tender of some kind, with the name of Kapitän Meyer, which should aid identification, and seems to have been taken quite recently. But has she always operated under this name? When was she originally built, and who was she operated by? What was her role in her heyday, and is she still in service with anyone? Indeed, is she still in existence and, if so, where is she usually based?

Send your answers, including a postal address, by email to sm.ed@kelsey. co.uk, or by post to Mystery Ship, Ships Monthly, Kelsey Publishing, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berrys Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG. March’s mystery ship

Sveinung Bruno Hansen of Oslo, last Japanese capital ship to be built emailed: ‘The mystery ship is the outside Japan. The four sisterships had battle cruiser IJN Haruna, pictured a different design/profile in respect of during outfitting at Kawasaki main masts and smoke stacks. Shipbuilding’s Kobe Shipyard. The After World War I she had two photo was taken in October 1914 major rebuildings, first at Yokosuka and one of the 14-inch gun barrels (B in 1924‑31 and again in 1933-34. She turret) can be seen being hoisted into was lengthened and a new Curtis place. The vessel was launched in 1913 turbine powerplant was installed, of and completed in April 1915. She was 136,000shp, increasing her speed to 653ft in length, of 29,330 tons, her 30.5 knots. She participated in almost engines developed 64,000shp, driving every major naval action of the Pacific in 1915. Haruna was built at the She was further reconstructed four shafts which gave her a speed of theatre during World War II. She was Kawasaki shipyard at Kobe. Haruna between 1933 and 1934. Haruna 26 knots. She had a crew of 980. sunk on 28 June 1945 at her moorings was reconstructed between 1926 and escorted Japanese aircraft carriers IJM Haruna was the last of four in Kure Naval Base in a US air attack.’ 1928. Her armour was strengthened on the raid into the Indian Ocean in Kongo class vessels designed by Sir and the fore funnel removed, so the 1942, at Midway and the Philippine George Thurston, and lead ship in Andrew Hudson, of Ulverston, is in photograph will have been taken Sea. Haruna, the last survivor of the the Kongo class, which was built by agreement, writing: ‘The mystery ship during the fitting-out process. class of four, was sunk at her moorings Vickers and was similar in design to is the Kongo class battle cruiser HIJMS Following the reconstruction, Haruna at Kure. The wreck was subsequently the later Tiger class. IJN Kongo was the Haruna, which was commissioned was reclassified as a fast battleship. raised and broken up in 1946.’

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www.shipsmonthly.com • May 2016 • 63 May ports of call Date Arr/dep Ship From/to Flag Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship From/to Flag Operator GT ABERDEEN 21 0700/1630 Silver Explorer x /Kirkwall BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 24 (Leith) Corinthian Aberdeen/Aberdeen MA Grand Circle 4,077 27 x / x Ocean Nova Kirkwall/Edinburgh BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 26 0100/2300 Zuiderdam (SQ) Invergordon/Newcastle NL Holland America 82,820 AVONMOUTH (Bristol) 26 1330-2300 Astoria (Rosyth) Stornoway/Tilbury MAD Rivages du M 16,144 9 0930/ xxx Astoria Tobermory/Honfleur MAD CMV 16,144 27 (Leith) Hebridean Sky Kirkwall/Aberdeen BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 16 0400/1700 Europa Tresco/Milford Haven BA Hapag-Lloyd 28,890 27 (Leith) Expedition tbc/tbc LBR tbc 6,334 BELFAST 29 (SQ) Invergordon/Le Havre BA Princess Cr 112,894 2 0800/1700 Boudicca Tobermory/Falmouth BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 29 x / x Ocean Nova Kirkwall/Kirkwall BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 8 0830/2100 L’Austral Killybegs/Dublin FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 FALMOUTH 12 0800/1800 Caribbean Princess Dublin/Glasgow BMU Princess Cr 112,894 4 0400/1500 Boudicca Belfast/Liverpool BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 12 0900/1300 L’Austral tbc/tbc FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 14 0330/2030 Europa Dartmouth/Tresco BA Hapag-Lloyd 28,890 13 0800/1800 Albatros Dublin/Killybegs BA Phoenix Reisen 28,518 16 0600/1400 Astor tbc/tbct BA Rivages du M 20,704 16 0730/2200 Astoria Galway/Dublin MAD Rivages du M 16,144 GREENOCK (Glasgow) 20 1000/2300 Celebrity Eclipse Reykjavik/Southampton MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 2 0800/1900 MSC Splendida Kirkwall/Dublin PA MSC Cruises 137,936 20 0830-1930 L’Austral Liverpool/Portree FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 13 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess Belfast/Kirkwall BA Princess Cr 112,894 23 0700-1800 Astoria Dublin/Greenock MAD Rivages du M 16,144 14 0700/1600 MSC Splendida Dublin/Cork PA MSC Cruises 137,936 23 0830-1800 Le Boreal Portree/Greenock FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 24 0730/1500 Astoria Belfast/Stornoway MAD Rivages du M 16,144 24 0300-2200 Mein Schiff 1 Invergordon/Greenock MA TUI Cruises 76,991 23 0700/1600 Zuiderdam Lerwick/Portree NL Holland Am 82,820 25 0800/1830 Caribbean Princess Liverpool/Greenock BMU Princess Cr 112,894 24 0800/ x Le Boreal Belfast/ x FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 29 1330/2000 Boudicca Corner Brook/Liverpool BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 25 0700-1700 Mein Schiff 1 Belfast/Dublin MA TUI Cruises 76,991 31 0800/1700 Boudicca Liverpool/Killybegs BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 25 0645/1800 L’Austral Iona/ x FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 COBH/CORK 26 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess Belfast/Invergordon BA Princess Cr 112,894 4 0800/1800 MSC Splendida Dublin/Southampton PA MSC Cruises 137,936 31 0700/1630 Silver Explorer Portrush/Iona BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 9 0800/1800 Serenade of the Seas Ponta Delgada/Le Havre BA RCI 90,090 HARWICH 10 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess St Peter Port/Dublin BA Princess Cr 112,894 1 0800/1900 Costa Luminosa Le Havre/Amsterdam IT Costa Cruises 92,720 12 0900/1900 Celebrity Eclipse St Peter Port/Iceland MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 24 0800/1800 Cherbourg/Warnemunde IT Costa Cruises 113,216 13 1000/1800 Astoria Jersey/Galway MAD Rivages du M 16,144 14 0700-1800 Le Boreal Isles of Scilly/Dublin FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 HOLYHEAD 15 1200/2000 MSC Splendida Greenock/Southampton PA MSC Cruises 137,936 2 0700/1700 Caribbean Princess Liverpool/Hamburg BA Princess Cr 112,894 16 1030/1730 L’Austral tbc/tbc FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 17 0700/2200 Corinthian Fishguard/Dublin MA Grand Circle 4,077 18 0700/2359 Europa BA Hapag-Lloyd 28,890 27 0400/1800 Mein Schiff I Dublin/Cork MA TUI Cruises 76,998 18 1230/2300 Balmoral St John’s/Southampton BA Fred. Olsen 43,537 28 0800/2300 Le Boreal x / x FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 22 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess St Peter Port/Dublin BA Princess Cr 112,894 31 0900/2200 Corinthian Dublin/Fishguard MA Grand Circle 4,077 28 0600-1800 Mein Schiff 1 Holyhead/Southampton MA TUI Cruises 76,991 HULL 29 0900/2000 Celebrity Silhouette Guernsey/Waterford MA Celebrity Cr 122,210 15 0100/1800 Marco Polo Tilbury/Bergen BA CMV 22,080 DARTMOUTH 23 0730/1815 Marco Polo Olden/Copenhagen BA CMV 22,080 1 x / x Ocean Nova x /Isles of Scilly BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 INVERGORDON 9 x / x Serenissima Portsmouth/Isles of Scilly VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 10 0800/1800 MSC Splendida Hamburg/Kirkwall PA MSC Cruises 137,936 9 0700/2100 Europa Portland/Falmouth BA Hapag Lloyd 28,890 16 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess Kirkwall/Edinburgh BA Princess Cr 112,894 DOUGLAS 20 0700/1700 Astor tbc/tbc BA Rivages du M 20,704 18 0800/1800 Le Boreal Liverpool/Iona FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 22 0800/1800 Mein Schiff 1 Bremerhaven/Belfast MA TUI Cruises 76,998 18 1200/1800 L’Austral Dublin/Liverpool FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 25 0800/1700 Zuiderdam Portree/Edinburgh NL Holland Am 82,820 29 0830/1700 Minerva Portsmouth/Heimay BA Swan Hellenic 12,892 28 0700/1800 Caribbean Princess Greenock/Edinburgh BA Princess Cr 112,894 DOVER ISLES OF SCILLY 1 0700/1800 Albatros Bremerhaven/ Portland BA Phoenix-Reisen 28,518 2-3 x / x Ocean Nova Dartmouth/Ile de Batz BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 4 0700/1700 MSC Opera Cherbourg/Copenhagen PA MSC Cruises 65,591 4 0800/1800 L’Austral Cowes/Galway FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 5 0700/1700 Braemar Bremen/Mystery Cruise BA Fred. Olsen 24,344 5-7 x / x Serenissima Jersey/Portsmouth VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 6 x / x Saga Pearl II /Ijmuiden MA Saga Cruises 18,627 9 x / x Ocean Nova Guernsey/Lundy BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 13 0700/1700 Black Watch Southampton/Eidfjord BA Fred. Olsen 28,613 10 x / x Serenissima Dartmouth/Bantry Bay VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 14 0700/1700 Braemar Mystery Cruise/Southampton BA Fred. Olsen 24,344 11 1200/1800 Albatros Portsmouth/Dublin BA Phoenix Reisen 28,518 16 0800/2000 AIDAsol Ijmuiden/Hamburg IT AIDA 71,304 13 0800/1800 Le Boreal La Coruna/Cork FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 16 0800/1900 Le Havre/Hamburg IT Costa Cruises 114,425 13 x / x National Geog Explorer Fowey/The Skelligs BA Adventure Life 6,471 20 0730/2000 AIDAsol Ijmuiden/Hamburg IT AIDA 71,304 15 0700/1500 Europa Falmouth/Bristol BA Hapag-Lloyd 28,890 20 0700/1800 Europa Cork/Kiel BA Hapag Lloyd 28,890 19-21 x / x Serenissima Jersey/Portsmouth VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 21 x / x Saga Pearl II Gothenburg/Bergen MA Saga Cruises 18,627 24 x / x Serenissima Guernsey/Bantry Bay VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 21 0700/1700 Black Watch Stavanger/ BA Fred. Olsen 28,613 KIRKWALL 24 0800/2000 AIDAsol Ijmuiden/Hamburg IT AIDA 71,304 5 0700/1400 Magellan Lerwick/Newcastle BA CMV 46,052 25 0800/1900 Costa neoRomantica Le Havre/Amsterdam IT Costa Cruises 114,425 11 0800/1700 MSC Splendida Invergordon/Greenock MSC Cruises 28 0800/2000 AIDAsol Ijmuiden/Hamburg IT AIDA 71,304 14 1430/2100 Ocean Diamond Port of Tyne/Lerwick BA tbc 8,282 28 x / x Saga Pearl II Stavanger/Dover MA Saga Cruises 18,627 15 0700/1700 Caribbean Princess Greenock/Invergordon BA Princess Cr 112,894 29 0530/1700 Disney Magic Liverpool/Stavanger BA Disney Cruises 83,969 18 0700/2300 Silver Explorer Loch Ewe/Fair Isle BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 DUBLIN 19 0900/1900 Astoria Portree/Invergordon MAD CMV 16,144 3 0800/1800 MSC Splendida Greenock/Cork PA MSC Cruises 137,936 20 0800/2359 National Geog Explorer Inverewe/Fair Isle BA Noble Caledonia 6,471 9 0700/1800 L’Austral Belfast/ x FRA Ponant Cruises 10,944 22 1200/2000 Silver Explorer Leith/Lerwick BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 11 1200/1730 Caribbean Princess Cork/Belfast BA Princess Cr 112,894 25 0900/1600 AIDAluna Keil/Reykjavik IT AIDA 69,203 12 0600/1730 Silver Explorer x / x BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 26 0500/1300 Hebridean Sky Fair Isle/Leith BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 12 0715/2000 Albatros Tresco/Belfast BA Phoenix-Reisen 28,518 26 0600/1300 Ocean Nova Fair Isle/Aberdeen BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 13 0800/1800 MSC Splendida Kirkwall/Greenock PA MSC Cruises 137,936 28 1230/1800 L’Austral TBC/TBC FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 15-6 0700/1800 Le Boreal Cork/Liverpool FRA Ponant Cruises 10,944 LERWICK 17 0530/2000 Astoria Belfast/Honfleur MAD Rivages du M 16,144 1 0800/1800 AIDAvita Kirkwall/Bergen IT AIDA 17 0700/1545 Astor tbc/tbc BA Rivages du M 20,704 4 0900/2200 Magellan Heimaey/Kirkwall BA CMV 46,052 17 0800/1800 L’Austral x /Douglas FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 14 1430/2100 Ocean Diamond Kirkwall/Torshavn BA tbc 8,282 22 0530/2000 Astoria Portsmouth/Belfast MAD CMV 16,144 21 0800/1700 Zuiderdam Stavanger/Greenock NL Holland Am 82,820 23 1100/2230 Caribbean Princess Cork/Liverpool BA Princess Cr 112,894 21-2 2000/1200 National Geog Explorer Kirkwall/Bergen BA Noble Caledonia 6,471 26 0530/1730 Disney Magic Sydney/Liverpool BA Disney Cruises 83,969 22 1200/1800 Albatros Runavik/Bergen BA Phoenix Reisen 28,518 26 0700-2000 Mein Schiff 1 Greenock/Holyhead MA TUI Cruises 76,991 22-3 2300/2359 Ocean Nova Oban/Kirkwall BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 31 0600/2000 Celebrity Silhouette Waterford/Liverpool MA Celebrity 122,210 23 0700/1200 Silver Explorer Kirkwall/Noss BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 DUNDEE 23-4 2300/1300 Hebridean Sky Torshavn/Fair Isle BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 7 0230/1415 Magellan Newcastle/Copenhagen BA CMV 46,052 29 0700/1400 L’Austral Kirkwall/Bergen FR Ponant Cruises 10,944

EDINBURGH (Leith/Newhaven/Rosyth/South Queensferry) LIVERPOOL 17 (SQ) Caribbean Princess Invergordon/Le Havre BA Princess Cr 112,894 1 x / x Caribbean Princess King’s Stairs/Holyhead BA Princess Cruises 112,894 18 (Leith) Ocean Diamond Greenwich/ x BA 8,282 5 x / x Boudicca Falmouth/Hellesylt BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 21 (Rosyth) Astor tbc/tbc BA Rivages du M 20,704 10 x / x L’Austral tbc/tbc FR Ponant Cruises 10,944

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Compiled by Donna and Andrew Cooke

Date Arr/dep Ship From/to Flag Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship From/to Flag Operator GT 14 x / x Boudicca Bergen/Killybegs BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 14 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Hamburg/Cadiz BMU Cunard 90,901 17 1100/1800 Le Boreal Dublin/Douglas FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 14 1830/2300 Braemar Dover/La Rochelle BA Fred. Olsen 24,344 19 1200/2100 L’Austral Douglas/Belfast FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 15 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 1 Bremerhaven/Le Havre MA TUI Cruises 76,998 24 x / x Caribbean Princess Dublin/Belfast BA Princess Cr 112,894 16 0630/1630 Aurora Guernsey/Bergen BMU P&O Cruises 76,152 27 x / x Disney Magic Dublin/Dover BA Disney Cruises 83,969 16 0630/1630 Britannia Stavanger/Funchal UK P&O Cruises 143,730 30 x / x Boudicca Belfast/Belfast BA Fred. Olsen 28,551 16 0800/2200 AIDAprima Hamburg/Le Havre IT AIDA 125,000 LONDON – GREENWICH SHIP TIER (GST)/TOWER BRIDGE UPPER (TBU) 17 0800/2000 MSC Splendida Cork/Hamburg PA MSC Cruises 137,936 18 0630/1630 Ventura Gibraltar/Guernsey BMU P&O Cruises 116,017 1 x / x L’Austral x /Ostend FR Ponant Cruises 10,944 20 0500/1700 Caribbean Princess Le Havre/Guernsey BA Princess Cr 112,894 10 x / x National Geog Explorer X /Portsmouth BA Noble Caledonia 6,471 20 0730/1100 Balmoral Cork/Newcastle BA Fred. Olsen 43,537 16 x / x Ocean Diamond tbc/tbc BA tbc 8,282 21 0530/1630 Navigator of the Seas Le Havre/Le Havre BA RCI 139,570 24-6 x / x Minerva Caen/Portsmouth BA Swan Hellenic 12,892 21 0630/1630 Azura Lisbon/Stavanger BMU P&O Cruises 115,055 MILFORD HAVEN 21 1730/1630 Braemar St Nazaire/Aalborg BA Fred. Olsen 24,344 17 0700/1800 Europa Bristol/Cork BA Hapag Lloyd 28,890 22 0530/1630 Celebrity Eclipse Belfast/Zeebrugge MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 OBAN 22 0630/1630 Ventura Zeebrugge/ BMU P&O Cruises 116,017 3 x / x Hebridean Princess Eigg/Raasay UK Hebridean Island 2,112 22 0830/1830 Queen Victoria Vigo/Bergen BMU Cunard 90,049 9 x / x Hebridean Sky x /Mingulay BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 23 0630/1630 Aurora Stavanger/Zeebrugge BMU P&O Cruises 76,152 10 x / x Hebridean Princess Skye/Coll UK Hebridean Island 2,112 23 0800/2200 AIDAprima Hamburg/Le Havre IT AIDA 125,000 16 x / x Hebridean Sky Iona/Mingulay BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 25 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 New York/Hamburg BMU Cunard 148,528 17 x / x Ocean Nova Dunvegan/Berneray BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 27 1415/2030 Silver Explorer x / x BA Silversea Cr 6,130 17 x / x Hebridean Princess Craignure/Tayvallich UK Hebridean Island 2,112 27 0700/1700 Silver Whisper x /Zeebrugge BA Silversea Cr 28,258 24 x / x Hebridean Princess Tayvallich/Tobermory UK Hebridean Island 2,112 28 0500/1630 Gibraltar/Stavanger BA Princess Cr 113,561 28 1330/2330 Silver Explorer Duart/Iona BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 28 0530/1630 Independence of Seas Cadiz/Gijon BA RCI 154,407 31 x / x Hebridean Princess Tobermory/Bishop’s Isles UK Hebridean Island 2,112 28 0630/1630 Azura Bergen/Zeebrugge BMU P&O Cruises 115,055 28 0700/2000 Arcadia Gibraltar/Stavanger BMU P&O Cruises 83,342 PEMBROKE DOCK 29 0630/1630 Britannia Lisbon/Bergen UK P&O Cruises 143,730 11 x / x Silver Explorer x / x BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 29 0630/1630 Oriana Gibraltar/Lisbon BMU P&O Cruises 69,840 POOLE 29 0930/1730 Queen Victoria Stavanger/Vigo BMU Cunard 90,049 14 tbc/tbc Corinthian tbc/Tresco MA Grand Circle 4,077 29 0530/1700 Harmony of the Seas Cherbourg/Vigo BA RCI 225,282 25 tbc/tbc Corinthian tbc/Tresco MA Grand Circle 4,077 30 0530/1630 Navigator of the Seas La Coruna/Bergen BA RCI 139,570 30 0630/1630 Azura Zeebrugge/Guernsey BMU P&O Cruises 115,055 PORTLAND 30 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 1 Cork/Bremerhaven MA TUI Cruises 76,998 2 0700/0900 Albatros Dover/ Torbay BA Phoenix-Reisen 28,518 30 0800/2200 AIDAprima Hamburg/Le Havre IT AIDA 125,000 12 0700/2359 Europa Sark/Dartmouth BA Hapag Lloyd 28,890 31 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Gibraltar/Hamburg BMU Cunard 90,901 29 0800/2300 Prinsendam Horta/Cherbourg NL Holland Am 39,051 STETER P PORT (Guernsey) PORTF O TYNE (Newcastle) 1 x / x Britannia Southampton/Southampton UK P&O Cruises 143,730 6 0900/1600 Magellan Kirkwall/Dundee BA CMV 46,052 2 x / x Serenissima Portsmouth/Alderney VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 13 0800/1700 Ocean Diamond x /Kirkwall BA tbc 8,282 3 0800/1800 Albatros Torbay/ Honfleur BA Phoenix- Reisen 28,518 20 0800/1400 Magellan Aarhus/Tilbury BA CMV 46,052 6 x / x Ocean Nova Ile de Brehat/Portsmouth BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 21 1700/2300 Balmoral Portsmouth/Bergen BA Fred. Olsen 43,537 7 0800/1300 Silver Explorer Bordeaux/St Malo BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 26 0730/1830 Balmoral Stolsfjorden/Bergen BA Fred. Olsen 43,537 8 x / x Britannia La Coruna/Southampton UK P&O Cruises 143,730 27 0800/1700 Zuiderdam Edinburgh/Copenhagen NL Holland Am 82,820 9 x / x Caribbean Princess Southampton/Cork BA Princess Cr 112,894 31 0730/1730 Balmoral Stolsfjorden /Reykjavik BA Fred. Olsen 43,537 10 x / x Arcadia Bilbao/Southampton BA P&O Cruises 83,342 PORTSMOUTH 11 x / x Celebrity Eclipse Southampton/Cork MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 1 0700/1900 Serenissima x /Dartmouth VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 13 x / x Emerald Princess Bordeaux/Southampton BA Princess Cr 113,561 1 0915/1800 Ocean Nova x /Dartmouth BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 14 x / x Serenissima Penzance/Portsmouth VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 7 0730/1800 Ocean Nova Herm/St Peter Port BA Noble Caledonia 2,183 15 x / x Aurora Zeebrugge/Southampton BA P&O Cruises 76,152 8 0830/1800 Serenissima Isles of Scilly/Dartmouth VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 19 x / x Ventura Southampton/Zeebrugge BA P&O Cruises 116,017 9 0800/1800 Silver Explorer St Malo/ x BA Silversea Cruises 6,130 20 x / x Minerva Quimper/Caen BA Swan Hellenic 12,892 10 0800/1900 Albatros Bremerhaven/Tresco BA Phoenix-Reisen 28,518 21 x / x Caribbean Princess Southampton/Cork BA Princess Cr 112,894 11 0700/1900 National Geog Explorer London/Fowey BA Noble Caledonia 6,471 22 x / x Celebrity Eclipse Belfast/Baltic MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 14 0730/1700 Minerva Kiel Canal/Honfleur BA Swan Hellenic 12,892 23 x / x Serenissima Portsmouth/Isles of Scilly VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 15 0700/1900 Serenissima Guernsey/Guernsey VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 28 0700/1600 Celebrity Silhouette Amsterdam/Cork MA Celebrity Cr 122,210 15 0600/1700 Astor BA CMV 20,704 31 x / x Azura Southampton/La Rochelle BA P&O Cruises 115,055 20 0600/2359 Astoria Jersey/Greenock MAD Rivages du M 16.144 STORNOWAY 22 0800/1700 Voyager St Malo/Guernsey BA Voyages of Dis 15,396 13 x / x Hebridean Sky Handa/Canna BA Noble Caledonia 4,200 22 0830/1900 Serenissima Guernsey/Guernsey VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 20 0800/2300 Le Boreal Tobermory/Ullapool FR Ponant Cr 10,944 27 0630/1600 Minerva London/Douglas BA Swan Hellenic 12,892 23 0800/2000 L’Austral Ullapool/Tobermory FR Ponant Cr 10,944 SOUTHAMPTON 24 1300/1930 Silver Explorer Noss/St Kilda BA Silversea Cr 6,130 2 0630/1630 Britannia Guernsey/La Rochelle UK P&O Cruises 143,730 25 1030/1500 Astoria Greenock/Rosyth MAD Rivages du M 16,144 2 0930/2130 AIDAprima Hamburg/Le Havre IT AIDA 125,000 30 0830/1800 Serenissima St Kilda/Rhum VCT Noble Caledonia 2,598 3 0530/1630 Ovation of the Seas Cherbourg/Gijon BA RCI 168,666 STROMNESS 3 0630/1630 Black Watch Gibraltar/Hamburg BA Fred. Olsen 28,613 22 tbc/tbc Corinthian Stornoway/Aberdeen MA Grand Circle 4,077 5 0630/1630 Arcadia Ponta Delgada/La Rochelle BMU P&O Cruises 83,342 26 tbc/tbc Corinthian Aberdeen/Stornoway MA Grand Circle 4,077 5 0700/1630 Viking Sea Le Havre/Haugesund MA Viking Cruises 47,800 6 0630/1630 Ventura Lisbon/Lisbon BMU P&O Cruises 116,017 TILBURY 6 0800/2000 MSC Splendida Cork/Hamburg PA MSC Cruises 137,936 1 0800/1600 Astor Honfleur/ x BA CMV 27,704 7 0500/1630 Emerald Princess Vigo/La Coruna BA Princess Cr 113,561 2 0800/1600 Marco Polo Bergen/Aalborg BA CMV 22,080 7 0630/1630 Azura Bergen/Funchal BMU P&O Cruises 115,055 14 0900/1400 Marco Polo Stockholm/Hull BA CMV 22,080 9 0800/1800 Silver Explorer St Malo/ x BA Silversea Cr 6,130 21 0800/1900 Magellan Newcastle/Bergen BA CMV 46,052 8 0500/1700 Caribbean Princess Le Havre/Guernsey BA Princess Cr 112,894 28 0930/1600 Magellan Flam/Amsterdam BA CMV 46,052 8 0530/1630 Celebrity Eclipse Stavanger/Le Havre MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 28 0700/2100 Astoria Rosyth/Dunkirk MAD CMV 16,144 8 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 1 Le Havre/Bremerhaven MA TUI Cruises 76,998 31 0700/1700 Magellan Ghent/Invergordon BA CMV 46,052 9 0630/1630 Britannia Guernsey/Bergen UK P&O Cruises 143,730 OTHERALLS C (vessels over 3,000gt) 9 0930/2130 AIDAprima Hamburg/Le Havre IT AIDA 125,000 Armadale 27 May Silver Explorer. Cowes 3 L’Austral. Duart 28 Silver Explorer. Galway 6 L’Austral; 14 Astoria. 10 0530/1630 Celebrity Eclipse Le Havre/Guernsey MA Celebrity Cr 121,878 Iona 19 Le Boreal; 24 L’Austral; 29 Silver Explorer. Killybegs 7 L’Austral; 14 Albatros. Lunga 29 Silver Explorer. 10 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Valencia/Hamburg BMU Cunard 90,901 Oban 28 Silver Explorer. Portree 21 L’Austral; 22 Le Boreal; 24 Zuiderdam. Portrush 30 Silver Explorer. 10 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cadiz/New York BMU Cunard 148,528 Rathlin Island 30 Silver Explorer. Rhum 27 Silver Explorer. Sark 11 Europa St Kilda 25 Silver Explorer. 10 0730/1730 Queen Victoria Funchal/Lisbon BMU Cunard 90,049 Tobermory 1 Boudicca; 19 Le Boreal; 24 L’Austral. Torbay 2 Albatros. Tresco 11 Albatros. Ullapool 21 Le Boreal; 10 0800/2000 AIDAsol Ferrol/Le Havre IT AIDA 71,304 22 L’Austral. Waterford 30 Celebrity Silhouette 11 0630/1630 Oriana Ponta Delgada/Cadiz BMU P&O Cruises 69,840 FLAG CODES BA Bahamas, BMU Bermuda, FR France, GLA Glasgow, IT Italy, LBR Liberia, MA Malta, MAD Madeira, 11 0700/2000 Arcadia Guernsey/Barcelona BMU P&O Cruises 83,342 NL Netherlands, NO Norway, PA Panama, UK United Kingdom, VCT St Vincent & Grenadines 13 0630/1630 Aurora Gibraltar/Zeebrugge BMU P&O Cruises 76,152 NB This information is given in good faith, and neither the authors nor Ships Monthly can be held responsible 13 0630/1100 Black Watch Hamburg/Dover BA Fred. Olsen 28,613 for any changes to ship arrivals or departures; readers are advised to check port shipping movements nearer 14 0500/1630 Emerald Princess Guernsey/Barcelona BA Princess Cr 113,561 the time if intending to view any of the ships, as schedules can change. NOTES x details not known 14 0530/1630 Independence of Seas Philipsburg/Gibraltar BA RCI 154,407

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Alan Moorhouse talks to Captain Johnny Faevelen, master of the cruise ship Allure of the Seas, about his career, the ship and current issues in the cruise ship industry, as a new Oasis class vessel, Harmony of the Seas, is A ie   about to enter service. How did you become military service on coastal patrol aboard (1988), Monarch of the Seas (1991) and Monarch of the Seas was nevertheless interested in a career at sea? motor torpedo boats. I successfully Splendour of the Seas (1996) . I was always clear of any danger herself, My family are from the town of applied for a job with Royal Caribbean responsible from 1999 for the start-up, as safety and the safe return of all Sandnessjoen in the Alstahaug region in 1975 and became an ordinary seaman trials and delivery from the STX Turku the passengers was the overriding Nordland, Norway. Fishing is a tradition aboard my  rst cruise ship, Song Of shipyard of all  ve of the Voyager class objective. But overall I have had many and my father,he like many, earned a living NorwayBidg (1970). I also served aboard ships. In 2010 I moved on to the new good moments in my 40-year career from  shing around the Helgeland Nordic Prince (1971) and Sun Viking Oasis class ship Allure of the Seas, and with Royal Caribbean. I have had the coast. I spent a lot of my early days (1972). I attended the Merchant Maritime have been Master of Allure for six years. privilege of overseeing the delivery in the 1970s helping on the family Academy at Kristiansand, and the of so many large, new and innovative boat. During summers I also worked Maritime Of cer School in Trondheim. What have been your most cruise ships, and being master of the on Troena, a ferry running between memorable experiences? largest cruise ship a¡ oat. Sandnessjoen and Traena. It was always What was the next stage in The Mariner of the Seas cruise around my wish to pursue a maritime career. your career? South America from Fort Lauderdale What changes have you seen to I then spent a period of time as a junior to Los Angeles was not an easy cruise ships and the industry? How did your early career of cer on the ro-ro ships, including experience, mainly due to the dif cult The most apparent change is the develop? Skaubo (1974), Skaubord and Skaugran approaches towards many ports and increase in size and power from Nordic I spent a year in the (1971). These ships had a crew of just 20. the con ned and restricted nature Prince in the 1970s to Allure of the Seas Royal Norwegian After three years I was promoted from of the harbours, which were never and Harmony of the Seas in 2016. There Navy (Sjøforsvaret) Ordinary Seaman to Second Of cer and constructed with large cruise ships in have been improvements in safety, doing compulsory then Chief Of cer. I returned to Royal mind. But perhaps the most dif cult environmental awareness, propulsion, Caribbean in 1983 and obtained my experience was an East Caribbean technology, satellite communication, Master’s Certi cate on 23 December Cruise aboard Monarch of the Seas in manoeuvrability and the way we drive 1985. I was promoted to Master in 1994. September 1995. There was a major and dock these very large ships. There navigation and itinerary problem as a have been massive changes in capacity On which ships have you result of Hurricane Marilyn. The ship and boarding arrangements. been Master ? departed San Juan, Puerto Rico in My  rst ship as Master was Nordic perfect weather conditions and blue How do you spend your Prince in 1994, in Alaska, a picturesque clear skies and went to Port Au Prince leisure time? area but one with dif cult sea currents in Trinidad. From then, wherever the I enjoy my time at home with my family, and challenging narrow channels. ship went, Marilyn went too, with dark my wife, and my son and daughter, in My entire career has been with Royal skies, ferocious winds and torrential Spangereid, Norway and at my sunshine Caribbean. I also served as Master rain. The call at Barbados was cut short house on the western coast of Florida aboard Sun Viking, Song of America and the calls at Guadeloupe, St Thomas near Tampa. I am also enjoying the (1982), Sovereign of the Seas and the Virgin Islands were cancelled. responsibilities of being a grandfather.

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