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Page3_editorial_Aug 2017_NL.indd 3 07/06/2017 09:39 CONTENTS CRUISE PANAMA • FIRST CRUISE SHIP IN NEW LOCKS CELEBRATING 14 NAVAL www.shipsmonthly.com REGULARS 70 YEARS USS Abraham Lincoln’s back at sea and Astute 6 WATERFRONT submarine programme on track. Gary Davies Four UK ports dropped by Fred. Olsen, £4.30 AUGUST 2017 OF THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY biggest ever boxboat calls at Southampton, and specialist ships being built in China. LUXURY LINERS REMEMBERING MATSON’S CLASSIC MONTEREY AND MARIPOSA PORTS 10 FERRY OF CALL WHERE TO SEE CRUISE SHIPS Condor’s 30 years from England, Tilbury to AROUND THE UK CONDOR MARKS build ro-ro berth, and DFDS enjoys best first 30 YEARS OF SERVICE quarter performance. Russell Plummer 12 CRUISE AUGUST 2017 • Vol 52 £4.30 16 CARGO First cruise ship in new Panama locks, first Maersk acquires Hamburg Süd, new record for MARITIME MOSAIC ROTTERDAM SHIPPING BY NIGHT Carnival ship scrapped, and Norwegian Jade Israeli port, and veteran still going strong. gets ready for the season. William Mayes 18 PRESERVATION CUNARD Queen Elizabeth PORT PROFILE Los Angeles CARGO Small ports, big ships SS Robin moving closer to home, and revamp COVER The famous liner Monterey in her pomp; she for USS New Jersey. Nick Hall and her Matson sister Mariposa are discussed on pages 36 to 41. (FotoFlite) 33 SHIPS PICTORIAL ALSO AVAILABLE Photos of ships around the world, including at DIGITALLY Plymouth, Auckland and Gibraltar. WWW.POCKETMAGS.COM

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WWW.SHIPSMONTHLY.COM FEATURES 46 AMERICA’S PORT MONTEREY Profile of the Port of Los Angeles, which 36 22 NEW ZEALAND NAVY handles everything from container ships to MARIPOSA History and profile of the Royal New Zealand cruise liners. David Walker Navy, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last year. Patrick Boniface and David Toy 50 MARITIME MOSAIC Photographs taken at night of shipping using 30 QUEEN ELIZABETH the port of Rotterdam. John Robinson Remembering the famous Cunard liner RMS The unusual story of two cargo ships rebuilt Queen Elizabeth, which was launched almost 53 FAMILY LINKS into liners for Matson. Allan E. Jordan 80 years ago and is the subject of a new World A history of the wider shipowning operations of Ships book. Janette McCutcheon of the Michalos family, which operated many CHARTROOM classic cargo ships. Malcolm Cranfield 58 SHIPS MAIL A selection of letters from readers. 60 PORTS OF CALL Cruise ship calls around the UK in August. Andrew and Donna Cooke 62 MYSTERY SHIP 42 SMALL PORTS 66 FROM THE BRIDGE Can you identify this month’s mystery ship? A look at some UK shipowners, whose Captain Hilmar Snorrason of ICE-SAR talks 63 SHIPS LIBRARY ambition in building big ships outgrew their about his career in the Icelandic merchant navy Reviews and details of new shipping books home port’s facilities. Roy Fenton and his ship Sæbjörg. Matt Davies

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CONTENTS Aug 2017_NL.indd 5 07/06/2017 09:24 WATERFRONT SEACAT SERVICES STENA LINE INVESTS IN FLEET REFIT BOOST FLEET FEEDER VESSELS Cowes-based offshore energy support vessel operator Seacat Services has welcomed new vessel Seacat Enterprise and the upgraded Seacat Courageous to its 14-strong fl eet as part of the fi rst wave of vessels certifi ed under the new HS-OSC (High Speed - Offshore Service Craft) code. Stena Superfast VIII operates on the Cairnryan-Belfast route. Seacat Enterprise and Seacat Courageous are ‘dual-classifi ed’, The 2017 refi t programme was ‘Our refi t programme is a key FERRY NEWS which means they can be licensed the fi rst time that all seven Stena aspect of our ship management to carry 12 ‘passengers’ under Stena Line has just completed Line vessels went into dry dock operation to ensure that our Workboat Code rules. The 27m the refi t of all seven ships in its sequentially, which represented vessels operate as safely and catamaran Seacat Enterprise Irish Sea North ferry fl eet, with a a signifi cant logistical challenge effi ciently as possible. We is the product of a long-term total investment programme of for the company. As well as have upgraded our onboard collaborative programme £5 million. The work was carried coordinating over 150 specialist passenger facilities, and between Seacat Services, South out at the Harland & Wolff onsite contractors, Stena Line the ships now carry the new Boats IoW and Alicat Marine shipyard in Belfast over a four- also introduced temporary relief strapline, Connecting Europe for Design, with an enhanced cargo month period, with the carefully vessels to ensure that sailing a Sustainable Future.’ and fuel capacity also enabling synchronised dry-dock visits schedules and customer service Stena Line is the largest up to four 20ft containers to being managed by Stena Line’s levels were maintained. ferry company on the Irish Sea, be carried, in addition to 24 Clyde-based sister company Paul Grant, Stena Line’s Trade operating the largest fl e e t a n d personnel and ship’s crew. RP Northern Marine Ferries. Director (Irish Sea North), said: widest choice of routes.

SPANISH-BUILT SOV READY Royce-designed ships that NEWBUILD Gondan is building for Østensjø The fi rst offshore wind farm Rederi, each to be equipped Service Operation Vessel with a 23m-long heave- (SOV) to be built in Spain has compensated gangway and been launched by Gondan an 11m daughter craft for wind Shipbuilders’ Figueras yard in turbine tower access. Asturias and is to be delivered Both are being completed to Norwegian shipowner to Rolls Royce Marine’s UT Østensjø Rederi for charter to 540 WP design and will carry a Dong Energy later this year. 3D-compensated deck crane The 81m by 17m Edda Passat as well as a CTV landing system Built by Guangzhou Shipyard International, the semi-submersible is the lead unit of two Rolls- with bunkering facility. JS Xin Guang Hua was recently used to carry the FPSO Western Isles to Spain’s Gondan Shipbuilders has launched the first wind farm Service Europe. ROTTERDAM PILOTS Operation Vessel to be built in that country. GONDAN SHIPBUILDERS CHINESE-BUILT AND -MOVED Western Isles development HEAVYLIFT project in the North Sea. China’s growing sophistication in The FPSO, which has a storage the marine industry was illustrated capacity of up to 400,000 barrels, recently when the Chinese-built is the fi rst FPSO China has built semi-submersible heavylift ship Xin for a foreign country, while the Guang Hua arrived in Rotterdam 98,000dwt Xin Guang Hua, carrying the circular, fl oating operated by COSCO Shipping production, storage and offl oading Heavy Transport, is one of a unit (FPSO) Western Isles for growing number of such vessels deployment to Dana Petroleum’s being built by Chinese yards. JS

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Boudicca off Gibraltar in 2015. CHRIS BROOKS BRIEF NEWS WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected]

FINCANTIERI • Leading Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed an agreement with STX Europe for the acquisition of a majority stake in STX France, paying €79.5 million for 66.6 per cent of the shares. The Saint-Nazaire yard has been responsible for many signifi cant vessels, including Queen Mary 2 in 2003, Normandie in 1935 and France in 1961. Fincantieri is continuing to negotiate with the French State to fi nalise an agreement for shareholders of STX France.

FOUR UK PORTS DROPPED FOR 2018 BRUARFOSS SOLD • A recent departure from the Eimskip fl eet For 2018 the company from late March into November has been the 724TEU container FRED. OLSEN CRUISES will concentrate on Dover, after starting 2018 with a spring ship, Bruarfoss (8,627dwt). Built Fred. Olsen is reducing the Southampton, Liverpool, Rosyth programme 2018 from South in Denmark in 1992, she entered service as Maersk Euro Quarto number of its UK departure ports and Newcastle, and there will Africa, the vessel then wintering and was acquired by Eimskip in to just fi ve in 2018, with Falmouth, be increasing emphasis on in the Indian Ocean. Black Watch 2001. The vessel left Rotterdam Tilbury, Harwich, and Belfast fl y-cruises, with fl ights to join mainly runs from Liverpool on in February and arrived in Manila all omitted. Although two April Breamar at Caribbean ports either side of January-April 2018 in April, and was soon renamed cruises by Boudicca took place, before and after a May-mid- and November 2018-March 2019 Span Asia 31. In January Eimskip there will be no return to Falmouth November programme of more world cruises. Only Balmoral has a signed contracts with a Chinese next year, with the operator than 20 Southampton departures. full 2018 programme from British yard for two 2,150TEU vessels, putting the blame partly on the There is a similar pattern for ports, including Southampton, with delivery expected in 2019. RC lack of dedicated cruising facilities. Boudicca, which is Dover-based Newcastle and Rosyth. RP RIVER CRUISING • Spring 2018 will bring two signifi cant river cruise PORT COSTS RUSSIAN AND SWISS MISSION events, with Fred. Olsen Cruise Landscape Research, gathered Line set to make a sector debut ICEBREAKER TOO HIGH evidence that they hope might with a European programme, The 2011-built Russian polar provide proof of extensive climate while long-established Viking HURTIGRUTEN research ship, Akademik change. The 12,711gt Akademik River Cruises is to become the fi rst Norway’s Hurtigruten is taking action Tryoshnikov, fl agship of the Russian Tryoshnikov, which has a range of foreign operator allowed to run against ports used by vessels on its polar research fl eet, completed a 15,000 nautical miles, is powered cruises on the Nile. Fred. Olsen historic coastal express service from three-month circumnavigation of by three Wärtsilä diesels driving will use the 156-guest Brabant on Bergen to Kirkenes for allegedly the Antarctic continent last winter twin shafts to give an open water a dedicated programme starting on 5 April 2018 and taking in the overcharging on berthing fees. as part of the Swiss Polar Institute’s service speed of 16 knots and Danube, Rhine, Main and Moselle According to Norway’s Ministry of Antarctic Circumnavigation the ability to break 1.1m thick rivers, with a total of 30 departures Transport and Communications Expedition (ACE) project. ice at two knots. She is owned ranging from fi ve to 25 nights and and the Norwegian Coastal During the voyage a team of by the Russian Government and all inclusive o f fl ights. Babant, built Administration (NCA), the ports scientists, sponsored by the Swiss operated by the Russian Arctic in 2006 and currently operating have misinterpreted new offi cial Institute of Forest, Snow and and Antarctic Research Dept. JS for Amadeus River Cruises as fee regulations. Amadeus Princess (pictured), will Stein Lillebo, project manager offer cruises including Düsseldorf for Hurtigruten, explained: ‘After to Amsterdam; Düsseldorf to the new port act of 2009 came Nuremberg; Nuremberg to into effect in 2012, Geiranger Budapest; Budapest to Bucharest; increased their annual port fees and Düsseldorf to Basel. She fi vefold from approximately brings back the name carried by NOK400,000 to more than NOK2 a Fred. Olsen passenger vessel million. That case ended in the during the 1920s. RP Supreme Court, where we won.The port act was passed to lower port costs and make the ports more effi cient. Instead, our costs went up more than 40 per cent, exceeding  The flagship of the Russian polar research fleet, the icebreaker Akademik NOK100 million in 2015.’ Tryoshnikov, recently completed a circumnavigation of the Antarctic. TVABUTZKU

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South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine, a target for either Evergreen or now operating under the control of the China COSCO Holdings. Korea Development Bank, has formed space- Two other carriers that are sharing agreements with the 2M Alliance as looking for potential mates are well as with compatriot operators Heung-A South Korea’s financially stressed Shipping and Sinokor Merchant Marine. Hyundai Merchant Marine and MARK MULLIGAN Israel’s Zim Integrated Shipping Services. Hyundai has recently worked out an agreement to share space within the 2M Alliance, composed of Maersk Line and the MSC, while also forming agreements with two smaller Asia- only carriers, Heung-A Shipping and Sinokor Merchant Marine. However, Zim has a problem in that it cannot join an international through previous mergers with carrier or a Taiwan government alliance, because its ships are BOXBOATS Sea-Land and P&O Nedlloyd. entity. Yet to find merger partners barred from entering ports Shippers, ports and shipbuilders With Hamburg Süd will come are two other lines based in Taiwan, of Arab countries that do not will have to wonder what the Chile’s CCNI and Brazil’s Aliança, Evergreen and Wan Hai, as well recognise Israel. It is also saddled massive round of consolidation giving Maersk a combined fleet of as Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas with a number of Panamax-size now taking place in the container over 740 vessels with a capacity Container Line (OOCL). The latter, ships in its fleet that have lost sector will mean for the future close to 3.8 million TEUs. In Asia, which is taking delivery of a number significant value since the opening of their respective businesses as Japanese carriers NYK, MOL and of 20,000TEU ships, could become of new locks at Panama. JS competition is diminished and K Line have elected to merge their fleets better rationalised. container operations into a new joint Taiwan’s Yang Ming, which suspended stock Last year Germany’s Hapag- venture undertaking after competitor trading in April, has been left out of the merger trend to date and lost more than Lloyd completed its absorption CMA CGM took over Singapore’s $490 million last year. YANG MING of the container operations of APL, and China’s COSCO and Chile’s CSAV. This year it expects China Shipping Container Line to finalise a merger agreement joined forces last year. All three with the United Arab Shipping carriers have since integrated their Company (UASC). At the same operations into the newly formed time, its one-time merger target, THE Alliance, which also includes compatriot operator Hamburg Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming. Süd, is now expected to become The latter company is currently part of the growing Maersk Line undergoing a recapitalisation and empire, which has been built up could be merged with another BIGGEST BOXBOAT TO CALL AT SOUTHAMPTON The ship is the first of six CONTAINER SHIPS 20,000TEU class vessels being The biggest ship to dock in the built for MOL, and has various UK arrived in Southampton on energy-saving technologies, 11 May. The 400m MOL Triumph including low-friction underwater is the first of a new type of ultra- paint and a high efficiency large container vessel to enter rudder and propeller. Power service this year. Its operators comes from a single 82,440kW claim she is more fuel-efficient MAN B&W G95ME engine. than previous carriers. She was on her maiden voyage Completed in March by to northern Europe and spent Samsung Heavy Industries in more than a day in Southampton Geoje, South Korea, the ship loading, before heading to will operate on the busy trade Hamburg and then back to Asia. route between Chinese and The even larger 20,568TEU European ports and can carry Munich Maersk is due to call at  The new mega container ship MOL Triumph (192,672dwt) berthing at Southampton for the first time in May. MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHIC the equivalent of 20,170TEU. the port later this year.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Introduced in 2015, Condor Liberation ENGINE FAULT • P&O Ferries is the latest fast were forced to take Hull- ferry to operate for Zeebrugge route vessel Pride of Condor Ferries. Bruges out of service due to a main engine problem following a late arrival at the Humberside port on 11 May. With technical repairs expected to take until 5 June, tourist passengers were switched to alternate day departures by sistership Pride of York or offered travel via Dover. To maintain daily freight capacity to Zeebrugge, P&O brought in UECC vessel Auto Bay (1997/18,979gt) on charter. CONDOR’S 30 YEARS FROM ENGLAND to launch a passenger service to Vitesse (1997) and Condor Rapide CHANNEL ISLANDS KERRERA LINK • Caledonian Weymouth in March 1987 with (1997) becoming the mainstay of MacBrayne Assets are planning Condor Ferries has now the 240-passenger Condor 7, a services from the late 1990s. a new ferry for the short crossing completed 30 years of high- 34-knot craft from Rodriques. This Weymouth was dropped from Oban to Kerrera to replace speed services from English followed an autumn 1986 spell as a departure port when the the 10m box barge-type vessel south coast ports to Jersey and of special Channel Islands-Poole 883-passenger/245-car Condor Gylen Lady, which came from Guernsey, with the link from sailings by Condor 7 to return Liberation came in to run solely Corpach Boatbuilders of Poole to St Peter Port and St 3,800 passengers left stranded from Poole. The company Fort William in 1999 and was Helier now in the hands of Austal- by Sealink’s sudden withdrawal currently carries more than a lengthened by two metres during built trimaran Condor Liberation. from Channel Islands routes. million passengers and 200,000 2004. Sailings cover a distance of Originally founded in 1964 Car-carrying services started in cars to and from the Channel just 550m, with passengers and and using 136-seat Italy-built 1993 after the introduction of the Islands each year. There is also cars using a bow ramp controlled Rodriques hydrofoil Condor 1 to 74m Incat wave-piercer Condor back-up from ro-pax vessel from the wheelhouse. connect the Channel Islands with 10, with the 86m Incat catamarans Commodore Clipper (1999) St Malo, the company expanded Condor Express (1996), Condor running from Portsmouth. GROUNDING • Plym II, one of three chain ferries running in parallel across the Tamar between Torpoint and Devonport, had BRITTANY FERRIES SIGN TEN-YEAR DEAL to be taken out of service after May. Brittany Ferries fi rst sailed being replaced after 25 years PORTSMOUTH PORT riding up the slipway, having into the Portsmouth City Council- of service, during which it is failed to stop during a high water Portsmouth International Port owned port in 1976 as one of its estimated to have served 40,000 Devonport arrival on 7 May. Plym and Brittany Ferries have made earliest customers and has been ferry movements. II (2004) was the fi rst of three a ten-year mutual commitment the only ferry operator to use the 748gt ferries built on the Clyde by to strengthen long-established port on a continuous basis. Ferguson, with sisters Tamar II and ties. The deal stretches through Portsmouth International has Lynher II following in 2005 and to 2027 and was signed aboard recently announced a £9 million 2006, to replace a trio of ferries Brittany Ferries Portsmouth-St investment in one of the berths built in the 1960s. Malo route vessel Bretagne used by Brittany Ferries, the (1989/24,534gt, pictured) on 18 current double deck linkspan FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . ELEKTRA • The 96.35m double- KNYAZ VLADIMIR • Built in 1971 as VOLCAN DE TAMASITE • The ender built for Finnish state-owned the ferry Eagle sailing Southampton- 2004-built Armas ferry suffered an company Soumen Lauttaliikenne left Lisbon-Tangier-Algeciras for Southern electrical failure approaching Las builders, Crist Shipyard in Gdynia, Ferries, the 770-bed vessel has Palmas on the evening of 21 April Poland to begin sea trials on 24 April. gone to a new cruise line, reportedly and, despite dropping an anchor, Designed for the Parainen-Nauvo encouraged by Russian president the vessel crashed into a pier, which route under the FinFerries trade Vladimir Putin. Most recently Mano caused serious damage to both the NILS DACKE • From 24 June the name, she will have a crew of just Maritime’s Royal Iris (pictured), she structure and her own bow. There vessel from TT-Line’s Travemünde- three, with the 1,251gt vessel able now sails weekly from Sochi. were 140 passengers, 30 crew and a Swinoujscie route is offering to carry 372 passengers and 90 cars. load of vehicles on board, with fi ve a summer service between Crist also has an order for a 3,160gt people taken to hospital with minor Swinoujscie and Ronne, capital hybrid ferry for Icelandic interests, injuries, including a man who broke of the island of Bornholm. The while Remontowa at Gdansk are a collar bone. The vessel came from 1995-built ro-pax will make a round building a new ferry for the Woolwich the Barreras Yard in Vigo, Spain, with trip on Saturdays. Ferry operation on the Thames. sister Volcan de Timanfayi.

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Norsky links Tilbury with MORE ROUTE WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected] Zeebrugge for P&O Ferries. DISRUPTION SOUND OF SLEAT Cal Mac’s Skye ferry link from Mallaig to Armadale suffered major disruption with more than 30 cancellations during the first two weeks of April in the continued absence of the route’s purpose-built vessel Coruisk (2003/1,108gt), which was moved last year to sail Oban-Craignure. TILBURY TO BUILD RO-RO BERTH The Armadale run is now in the hands of Loch Fyne deep sea ro-ro services, including Other regular Tilbury users are (1991/549gt), with support from RIVER THAMES P&O Ferries, with chartered Stora Enso, bringing in paper and Lord of the Isles (1989/3,504gt) The Port of Tilbury is to build a Bore-owned sisters Norsky and pulp from Scandinavia; Transgenic, between regular route sailings to large Thames river ro-ro berth and Norstream offering overnight running to the Baltic and Russia; and from Lochboisdale. Roddy terminal on land formerly occupied sailings to and from Zeebrugge Grimaldi Lines offering links to Murray, chairman of the Sleat by the Tilbury power station. The on a link that started in 2007. Africa and South America; and Transport Forum said: ‘Despite facility, to be known as Tilbury 2, Built at Rauma, Finland in 1999, Finnlines, also operating service all assurances from CalMac and will cover 51 hectares downstream the 20,296gt pair can handle to Finland and Russia. Tilbury Transport Scotland that last year’s from the lock entrance and will up to 194 trailers and first ran is the UK import centre for unacceptable service would not feature a new deepwater jetty. for P&O between Teesport and Hyundai cars, and in 2015 post- be repeated, the situation has not Owned by Forth Ports, Tilbury Zeebrugge, before switching to Panamax capacity came through improved and we are appealling currently handles both short and the Tilbury route during 2013. a riverside ro-ro berth. once again that immediate steps be taken to retrieve the situation.’ Originally based at Kyle of BEST FIRST QUARTER PERFORMANCE Lochalsh, Loch Fyne was designed to operate from concrete slipways, 2017 RESULTS Côte des Flandres is part of the DFDS operation from Dover. RUSSELL PLUMMER but both Mallaig and Armadale DFDS Seaways enjoyed a best- have hydraulic ramps and ever first quarter with a four per problems can occur at low tide. cent increase in revenue through Lord of the Isles should operate January, February and March, three services a day across the when profit before tax climbed Sound of Sleat, but if the South ten per cent thanks to strong Uist sailings are delayed it can freight performance, despite affect the Skye crossings. slightly weaker UK passenger numbers due to the late Easter. from Dover to Calais and Dunkirk. climb in freight volumes across INCAT ORDER • Spain’s Naviera Continental trade continues to Revenues for the group were €432 the network, with services from Armas has ordered a 109m grow with a ten per cent increase million (£363 million), compared the UK to Holland, France and catamaran, hull 091, for delivery in shipments on North Sea freight with €414 million (£348 million) for Scandinavia up by seven per cent. in 2019. Armas bought the 98m routes and a three per cent freight the first three months of 2016. This helped the Shipping Division Volcán de Tirajana in 2015 and rise on cross-Channel routes There was a seven per cent to a first quarter profit. the 96m Volcán de Teno last year. FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . PRINCESS POCAHONTAS • With KAITAKI • The former Isle of NEW OPERATOR • Blue Funnel the Gravesend-Tilbury ferry now in Innisfree, on charter in New Zealand Ferries has taken over the Hythe- the hands of new operators, Lower since 2005, is to be bought from the Southampton passenger ferry, with Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Irish Continental Group by KiwiRail. director Lee Rayment announcing Company owner Captain John Potter She was built in Holland by Van the conclusion of lengthy change- is planning to retire in the autumn, der-Giessen with delivery, to sail of-ownership negotiations from and the 1962-built excursion vessel is Holyhead-Dublin for Irish Ferries from White Horse Ferries early in May. TYCHO BRAHE • The Scandlines expected to be offered for sale. The 1995 before moving to the Pembroke- The first move was to send the Oresund ferry, built in 1991 and 207-passenger Princess Pocahontas Rosslare until 2002. 60-passenger Uriah Heep for carrying 1,250 passengers and has become popular on the Thames, overhaul; the 23.1m vessel started 240 cars, resumed on the crossing offering trips from Gravesend life as one a series of craft named between Helsingor and Helsingborg upriver to Greenwich and Central after Dickensian characters for an at the end of June after visiting London, downstream to Southend unsuccessful 1990s Thames venture. Landskrona to complete conversion and occasionally going as far as Hythe also boasts the world’s to full battery operation. Whitstable or the River Medway. longest opearting pier railway.

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Waterfront Aug 2017_NL.indd 11 07/06/2017 09:18 CRUISE William Mayes FIRST CRUISE SHIP IN NEW LOCKS DISNEY Disney Wonder became the first cruise ship to transit through the On 29 April Disney Cruise Line’s Panama Canal’s new Agua Clara 293.82m by 32.3m Disney Wonder locks earlier this year while on (1999/83,308gt) became the fi rst a positioning voyage from the cruise ship to use the new Panama Atlantic to the Pacific. ACP Canal locks when she made a southbound transit while cruising from Port Canaveral to San Diego. The new locks enable vessels of up to 366m in length and 49m in beam to use the canal. Previously, the maximum size was about 305m by 32.3m, a popular measurement for cruise ships’ beams. The new lock dimensions can accommodate cruise ships up to and including Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas class. Sistership Disney Magic will pioneer some new itineraries for the company in 2018 with maiden calls at Quebec and Bermuda. So far, 18 reservations have been made for other passenger vessels to use the new locks, a number which is expected to increase because of passenger demand rather than ship size requirements.

Norwegian Jade departing Southampton. MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHIC

 The Atrium is dominated by a custom-designed chandelier.  The ship’s main pool deck has new lighting fixtures and flooring.

THE NORWEGIAN EDGE

Hamburg, including participation the latest Breakaway class. and Teppanyaki (Norwegian’s NCL in the Hamburg Cruise Day The 2006-built vessel emerged Japanese hibachi grill restaurant) Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) will parade on 9 September. from a three-week refi t with two have also been upgraded, as have have fi ve ships sailing in European Norwegian Jade returns to new restaurants, O’Sheehan’s two of the complimentary café s. waters during the summer of 2017, Southampton for the fi rst time Bar & Grill and The Pit Stop, All cabins have new carpets, including a return to the UK with since 2010 after receiving an two new bars and lounges, and furniture, fl at screen TVs and larger the newly refurbished Norwegian extensive makeover as part of a new look atrium design, one headboards with USB charging Jade. The 2,402-passenger the company’s fl eetwide US$400 of many public spaces to be outlets, and the ship carried more vessel will provide a full season million ‘Norwegian Edge’ refreshed with a new design and than 2,000 new pieces of artwork. of itineraries to Northern Europe refurbishment programme, which dé cor. Cagney’s Steakhouse, La NCL currently operates a fl eet of from Southampton, and also offer is designed to bring the older Cucina, Norwegian’s signature 15 ships, with six more planned a limited number of cruises from ships up to the same standards as Italian specialty restaurant, for delivery up until 2025. GD

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The former Orient Queen BRIEF NEWS WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected] has had a reprieve. WILLIAM MAYES AIDA CRUISES • The latest ship for the Aida Cruises fl eet will be named by German model and presenter Lena Gercke in Palma de Mallorca on 30 June. Delivered 15 months late by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering in Japan, the ship will stay in the Mediterranean until March 2018, when she moves to Hamburg to take up the English Channel circuit currently operated by her sister, Aidaprima.

ALL LEISURE • Although the Voyages of Discovery name was sold to G Adventures just before the failure of All Leisure SISTERSHIPS’ FORTUNES VARY Group, the company’s single ship, Voyager (1990/15,396gt), was not 1995. After several intermediate However, she was not allowed wanted. Subsequently she was 1960S SISTERS roles, she joined the Louis Cruise to berth until investigations laid up in and around Singapore Louis Aura (1968/15,781gt) may fl eet in 2005 as Orient Queen, had been carried out, so her awaiting a buyer. At last she has have had a further reprieve after having had a massive rejuvenation passengers were ferried ashore been sold, and the buyer is a a period of inactivity, as she in 2004, which is almost certainly using tenders from another Mexican hotels group which also is being advertised by Turkish the only reason that she has lasted former NCCL ship, Superstar has its own fl eet of aircraft. It is operator Etstur, who list her on so long in mainstream cruising. Libra (1988, ex-Seaward). too early to know if the ship will their website for the 2017 cruise Her sister, Leisure World Leisure World was operated in return to active service. season as Aegean Queen. (1969/15,653gt), built in the same the Caribbean until 1991, since Built by AG Weser Werk yard as Skyward, has also been in when she has been employed as a FRED. OLSEN • Fred. Olsen Seebeck at Bremerhaven, she the news. While returning to her gambling ship in South East Asia, Cruise Lines has taken a two-year was launched as Starward for the berth at Swettenham Pier, George in Singapore, and more recently April to November charter of the relatively new Kloster operation Town, Penang on 11 May, she in Penang. She did not appear to 156-passenger Amadeus Princess, Norwegian Caribbean Cruise suffered a small engine room fi re, have returned to service, but was to be renamed Brabant for a new Line, for whom she operated until which was quickly extinguished. anchored off Penang. river cruises operation.

AURORA EXPEDITIONS • The previously reported Sunstone FIRST CARNIVAL SHIP SCRAPPED Ships design has been chartered of the Carnival Cruise Lines & plc, and renamed Pacifi c Sun. to Australia’s Aurora Expeditions. CARNIVAL newbuildings to go for scrap. She was sold to Chinese travel The revolutionary design of this HNA’s Henna (1986/47,678gt) The ship was delivered by company HNA in 2012 and ice class 1A vessel, with its X-bow, fi nally arrived off Alang on Kockums in Malmo, Sweden began operating in the Chinese reduces pitching while improving 24 April as Hen, having been as Jubilee, and remained with market at the beginning of the fuel economy. The 104m vessel awaiting a sale for breaking Carnival Cruise Lines until 2004, following year. It seems that she will carry around 160 passengers for some time. Breaking when she was transferred to was not successful in this role and is scheduled to enter service commenced on 28 April, P&O Australia, by then a new and has spent a good part of in time for the 2019-20 Antarctic thus making this ship the fi rst member of Carnival Corporation the intervening years laid up. season. This is the fi rst of a series of four ships that are expected to join the Sunstone charter fl eet.

THOMSON CRUISES • The latest addition to the Thomson fl eet will be named TUI Explorer and will join recently launched ships TUI Discovery and TUI Discovery 2 in offering All Inclusive as standard. Homeported in Palma, Majorca from May 2018, TUI Explorer will cruise the Western Mediterranean through four main itineraries. Aida Cruises will steal the show at Hamburg’s birthday party. WILLIAM MAYES

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USS Abraham Lincoln’s RCOH will enable her to ABE BACK AT SEA serve until 2042. US NAVY

billion and took almost four years. During her hiatus, Lincoln also returns to the fl eet as the fi rst US NAVY The replacement of expended received an anchor from the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) nuclear fuel with new fuel is an decommissioned USS Enterprise fully capable of operating the was redelivered to the US Navy expensive and lengthy process, (CVN 65). USS Abraham Lincoln F-35C Lightning II fi ghter jet. on 12 May following her mid-life but with the navy’s aircraft carriers is the fi fth Nimitz class aircraft USS George Washington is to refuelling and complex overhaul is considered good value, as it carrier to undergo the major begin her 48-month RCOH (RCOH) and subsequent sea extends the operational life of lifecycle milestone at Newport maintenance period dry-dock trials. The RCOH cost US$2.75 each ship for around 25 years. News Shipbuilding, and she on 4 August 2017.

The sale of MILGEM Project ships is Turkey’s CHINA’S NEW OLD DESIGN 16), which was bought incomplete largest export success CHINESE NAVY for local industry. from Ukraine in 1998. The refi tted China’s worst-kept secret was Soviet-era Admiral Kuznetsov offi cially unveiled at Dalian in class carrier has been in service Liaoning Province on 26 April. with the People’s Liberation Army Possibly to be named Shandong Navy (PLAN) since September 2012. but widely known as CV 17, the new The most obvious visual difference Type 001A is the superpower’s fi rst is the alternative arrangement domestically built aircraft carrier. of four large phased array radar Displacing around 50,000 panels, although, according to tonnes and conventionally Chinese state media, the new Type powered, the new Short Take-Off 001A has a shorter island and a But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) larger hangar, enabling her to EXPORTS DELIGHT TURKS confi gured vessel is essentially an accommodate up to 36 Shenyang service with the Turkish Navy, with updated version of Liaoning (CV J-15 carrier-based fi ghters. NEW WARSHIPS larger frigate versions planned. The PLAN’s new aircraft carrier at Turkey’s fl ourishing defence Pakistan has ordered four launch from the China Shipbuilding industry has achieved two 99m vessels worth US$1 billion, Industry Corporation shipyard. major naval export orders with construction likely to be worth at least US$2 billion. shared between Istanbul and at Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are Karachi Shipyard & Engineering set to acquire variants of the so- Works. Equipped with anti- called MILGEM project, which submarine (ASW) and anti-ship translates as ‘National Ship’. (AAW) warfare capabilities, the Three of the stealthy ships will replace the Tariq class 2,400-tonne corvettes, which (ex-RN Type 21) frigates. Saudi share a strikingly similar profi le Arabia has opted for at least to the US Freedom class Littoral two, but up to fi ve, 114m I class Combat Ship, are currently in (Istanbul class) frigate variants.

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The Marine Nationale is to maintain a BRIEF NEWS WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected] fleet of 15 front-line frigates with the LA FAYETTE modernisation of three La Fayette class RAN • Navy chiefs have admitted frigates. MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHIC that there could be a fundamental design fault with the azipod STOP GAP propulsion system fi tted to the Navy’s new helicopter carriers. Both ships have remained alongside at Sydney for several months with problems such as metal fragments in lubricating oil affecting HMAS Adelaide and faulty seals causing various oil leaks on HMAS Canberra. The propulsion systems of the Spanish- built ships were manufactured by the German company Siemens.

Each year-long refi t, to carrier Charles de Gaulle during SAUDI ARABIA • In addition to FRENCH NAVY be undertaken at Toulon, her current 18-month overhaul. interest in Turkey’s I class MILGEM The French Navy is to modernise will coincide with scheduled More signifi cantly, the Crotale offering as part of a major naval three of its fi ve La Fayette class overhauls. The work will cover the anti-air warfare system will be modernisation programme, frigates to maintain frontline platform and the combat system. replaced by two overhauled the Saudis have agreed a US$6 frigate numbers ahead of the As well as general renovation SADRAL launchers which can fi re billion deal with Lockheed Martin introduction of the fi rst of a new and upgrades to propulsion, MBDA Mistral missiles. And for the for four Multi-Mission Surface class of ‘intermediate-sized’ electronic and IT systems, the fi rst time, the as yet unspecifi ed La Combatants (MMSC). The frigate in 2023. The new FTI combat and command systems Fayettes to be upgraded will be MMSC is a more heavily armed (Frégates de Taille Intermédiaire) will be replaced with the latest equipped with an anti-submarine export variant of the US Navy’s will replace the La Fayettes on a standard to integrate with those capability with the integration of a Freedom Littoral Combat Ship. one-for-one basis. also being fi tted to the aircraft hull-mounted sonar. The sale was sanctioned in 2015 and includes a 16-cell MK.41 VLS system per ship for RIM-162 COSTLY AUDACIOUS MOVE Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles. KUZNETSOV design improvements and enters GERMAN NAVY • Plans for the RN SUBMARINES the water at a more advanced state quick acquisition of fi ve additional RUSSIAN NAVY The Astute submarine programme of build than the fi rst three hulls. K130 corvettes has stalled after The cost of repairs and upgrades is now fi rmly on track with the Sea trials are to begin next year. the cartel offi ce stopped the to Admiral Kuznetsov, the Russian launch of the fourth of class and the The MoD has also contracted procurement process following Navy’s only aircraft carrier, is signing of a £1.4 billion contract BAE Systems to deliver HMS complaints from rival shipbuilders. expected to be in the region of for the completion of boat no.6. Agamemnon, the construction of The Defence Ministry had 40 billion roubles (US$714 million) The future HMS Audacious which began in 2012 and is well hoped to save time and money and to take more than three years emerged from the Devonshire under way alongside hull no.5, to by directly awarding a build to complete. The work is to be Dock Hall in Barrow on 27 April. be named Anson. The seventh contract to the Lürssen-Thyssen carried out at the 35th Shipyard With the lessons learned from and fi nal boat, not offi cially Krupp Marine Systems (TKMS) in Roslyakovo near Murmansk, a troublesome start to the Astute named but long known as Ajax, consortium, which built the fi rst starting in September. project, she incorporates a host of will be laid down later this year. fi ve ships. This was expected to Much of the effort to improve cost around €1.5 billion; however, her operational capability will focus TKMS has quoted €2.9 billion. on restoring the ship’s powerplant, including the replacement of US NAVY • Tripoli (LHA 7), the several faulty boilers, and the second of the America class modernisation of the fl ight deck amphibious assault ships, was aircraft recovery system. launched by Ingalls Shipbuilding It will be the fi rst major refi t for from the company’s fl oating dry the 27-year old aircraft carrier, which dock on 8 April, some 13 weeks was the subject of intense scrutiny ahead of schedule. The sole during her fi rst combat mission off builder of large-deck amphibious Syria, when she lost two aircraft due ships, designed to transport to technical problems with aircraft Marine expeditionary units and arrestor cables. She was also the their equipment, is scheduled to subject of great amusement for begin construction of Bougainville the amount of exhaust smoke she  Audacious on the syncrolift at Barrow. The fourth Astute SSN entered the (LHA 8) in late 2018. generated from her funnel. water on 28 April. BAE SYSTEMS

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SOLD AGAIN The 82,258dwt Höegh Grace, completed last year, COASTER is one of eight LNG ships to be operationally supported The German coaster Nieva-B, by Finland’s Wärtsilä group. a regular visitor to Humberside HÖEGH LNG ports in 2015, has been sold again. After little more than a year under the ownership of Nieva-B Schifffahrts, she changed hands at the end of 2016 and started 2017 as the German- fl agged Darwen, operated by Loge Shipmanagement of Haren (Ems), Germany. Built in 1984 as Richard C, HÖEGH the 1,537dwt coaster sailed as Magda D between 2005 and CHOOSES 2015. In 2015 she was bought by Nieva-B Schifffahrts, of Germany, who renamed her WÄRTSILÄ Nieva-B and renovated her to pristine condition. She traded to Heavy Industries shipyards in based on the use of seawater and LNG CARRIERS the Humberside ports, carrying South Korea, each of which will be glycol as the intermediate heating timber and steel from Northern Finland’s Wärtsilä has been powered by four Wärtsilä 50DF medium, which is a lighter and European and the Baltic ports. RC contracted to provide both dual-fuel engines. There is an less space-demanding alternative equipment and maintenance for option for a further three vessels to earlier systems using a several fl oating storage regasifi cation of this series at the Samsung yard. propane-based heating system. units (FSRUs) and LNG carriers being The fi rst two vessels will By using seawater as opposed built for Norway’s Höegh LNG. feature the latest Wärtsilä to steam heat, the CO2 emissions This includes two new regasifi cation technology, to are also reduced. Under the fi ve- 3  Nieva-B arrives at Goole from 170,000m capacity LNG tankers allow them to operate as FSRUs. year agreement Wärtsilä will also St Petersburg in July 2016; she has being completed at the Samsung The regasifi cation system to provide support for eight existing been renamed Darwen. ROY CRESSEY Heavy Industries and Hyundai be supplied to these vessels is Höegh LNG ships. JS

The Swedish-flagged cement PANAMA: NOT ENOUGH TUGS? carrier Vastanvik is still plying her projected number of ships per trade aged 51 years. PATRICK HILL CANAL NEWS day are being transited through The 366m by 48.2m container the new locks because of a ship COSCO Development has set shortage of tugs and crews. a new record as the largest vessel The union noted that, instead of to transit the expanded Panama the anticipated 12 vessel transits Canal, but the International per day through the new locks, Organization of Masters, Mates & only about six are currently being Pilots (MM&P), a maritime union accomplished. The Panama Canal whose membership includes Authority has said it is working crews working on tugs in Panama, with private companies to provide cautions that only half of the additional tugboat capacity. JS VETERAN GOING STRONG CEMENT CARRIER Finland in 1966, she has only ever carried the name Vastanvik It is unusual for a vessel over and is registered in Slite, 50 years of age to still be a Sweden. Operated by Eureka regular trader. One such vessel, Shipping of Limassol, she trades however, is the cement carrier mainly between Aalborg and Vastanvik (3,019dwt ), which UK ports. After discharge at arrived at the port of Goole in Goole on 13 May, she sailed May on one of her regular trips back to Aalborg to load another from Aalborg, Denmark. cargo of cement, this one Built by Wärtsilä-Koncernen, destined for Londonderry in AB Crichton-Vulcan at Turku, Northern Ireland. RC  The 13,092TEU COSCO Development has become the largest vessel to use the new Panama Canal locks, but questions remain concerning tugboats. PCA

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MAERSK ACQUIRES HAMBURG SÜD NEWS IN BRIEF WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected] ARDENT AWARDED SALVAGE CONTRACT • The salvage and wreck removal company, Ardent, formed by a merger of Maersk Group’s Svitzer Salvage and Crowley Holdings’ Titan Salvage in mid-2015, has been contracted to remove the wreck of the sunken 2,876gt cargo vessel Fluvius Tamar from the English Channel. The Barbados-flagged cargo ship sank approximately 35 nautical While Maersk miles northeast of Ramsgate, completes its England in 40m of water during acquisition of January while carrying 3,800 Hamburg Süd, it is tonnes of magnesium oxide. taking delivery of its All seven crew members were second generation Triple-E class rescued after abandoning ship in container carriers. total darkness. JS MAERSK LINE ANOTHER BIG BOXSHIP • The Hamburg Süd for about $4 billion around 3.9 million TEUs. As it 21,413TEU OOCL Hong Kong INDUSTRY NEWS on a cash and debt-free basis. finalises the purchase of Hamburg has become the world’s largest The boards of Maersk Line and Combined, the two firms will Süd, Maersk is taking delivery of container ship following her Germany’s Oetker Group, owner be able to realise operational its second generation Triple-E completion by South Korea’s of Hamburg Süd, have approved synergies of $350-400 million class ships, led by the 20,568TEU Samsung Heavy Industries for Hong Maersk’s acquisition of the annually, with Hamburg Süd capacity Madrid Maersk. Maersk’s Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Oetker company, although the maintaining its own structure and remaining order book consists of Line. However, her deadweight of purchase still remains subject to separate brands. The combined ten second generation Triple-Es, 197,500 tons is less than the 210,019 regulatory approvals. If these can fleet will consist of 743 container nine 15,226TEU ships and seven tons of Maersk Line’s 21,019 TEU be obtained, Maersk will acquire vessels with a total capacity of 3,596 TEU ice-class feeders. JS Madrid Maersk, which means the new OOCL ship will either have to carry lighter containers or more empty ones than the Maersk NEW RECORD NEWBUILD WITH APT NAME vessel to load to her maximum container capacity. JS FOR ISRAEL design. This is a series of wide BULKER beam, shallow draught vessels PORT NEWS EURONAV ORDERS • Belgium- A first-time visitor to the River Tees measuring 199.99m by 36m, with based tanker operator Euronav A few months after the arrival of in February was a newly built bulk five holds and four cranes for NV has ordered two high- Maersk Elba (13,092TEU), MSC carrier with the unusual name handling cargo. They can carry specification Ice Class Suezmax set a new record for Israel with its of Draftdodger. The 66,545dwt more cargo than a conventional tankers from South Korea’s first mega-container ship ever to Greek-registered vessel was supramax bulk carrier, but the fuel Hyundai Heavy Industries for arrive at Haifa Port’s state-of-the- built by Mitsui Engineering & consumption is less. The vessels delivery starting in late 2018. The art Carmel Terminal, MSC Cristina Shipbuilding at its Tamano yard and can trade to places that other twin Ice Class 1C ships will replace (13,259TEU, pictured), part of the was delivered on 11 March 2016. supramax tankers cannot. Power current tonnage in the Euronav weekly service operated by the The name Draftdodger comes from a Mitsui-Man B&W fleet and will cover two seven-year 2M Alliance (Maersk and MSC). explains the nature of the vessel, diesel engine giving her a service time charter contracts recently This service links ports in South which was the twelfth ship of her speed of 14.5 knots and she signed with Valero Energy Inc. JS Korea, China and Singapore with builders Eco-Ship ‘neo 66BC’ carries a crew of 24. RC Haifa Port, and from there ships NEW TUG FOR PANAMA • continue to Adriatic ports. MSC Holland’s Damen Shipyards Cristina arrived at the Carmel has delivered one of its model Terminal on 12 May, where she 2411 Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) was serviced by four STS cranes tugs to Saam Smit Towage for moving 120 containers per hour. deployment to Colón, Panama, where she will operate alongside ten other Saam Smit tugs as SST Portobelo. The new tug, which has a bollard pull of 70 tonnes, was built in Vietnam and completed to Saam Smit’s specifications in the  The new wide-beam, shallow draught bulker Draftdodger arrives on the Tees Netherlands. JS on 14 February. She was the 12th vessel built to this design. STEPHEN LOWERY

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Waterfront Aug 2017_NL.indd 17 07/06/2017 09:19 PRESERVATION Nick Hall

NEWS IN BRIEF Georgios Averof is still considered to be the AVEROF TO headquarters ship of the Chief of Staff of SAIL AGAIN? the Hellenic Navy.

VIOLA • A major fundraising appeal has been launched to enable one of the world’s oldest steam trawlers to be returned to Hull from South Georgia. The Viola Trust, which has already received cash and in-kind support from maritime companies and other sectors, is now targeting regional and international business contacts to meet the estimated cost of £1.75 million. Viola was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell in 1906 for the Hellyer Steam Fishing Co Ltd of Hull. She was requisitioned for Royal Naval service during World War I as the minesweeper Viola III. A APPEAL to fund CMB move A survey has established that Viola Athens, was retired from service King George V at Spithead, and CRUISER crowdfunding campaign has (pictured) is in good enough in 1965 and has been a fl oating successful actions against the been launched to enable the 55ft condition to be moved from her Ambitious plans to restore the museum for the past 25 years. Ottoman Navy during the Balkan Coastal Motor Boat CMB 331 to be current location and taken to Greek armoured cruiser Georgios Georgios Averof was built Wars of 1912-13 won her almost transported to Portsmouth Harbour Hull for a starring role in Hull City Averof to seagoing condition in Livorno, mounted four 9.2in legendary status. During World for conservation. The boat is currently Council’s proposed new maritime have been unveiled by shipowner and eight 7.5in guns, and was War II she was employed on lying in Oxfordshire but it is hoped heritage displays. she will be relocated to Gosport Alexandros Goulandris. It is a commissioned into the Royal convoy escort and patrol duties and housed alongside Explosion, massive undertaking, as the Hellenic Navy in May 1911. Later in the Indian Ocean and, in 1944, The Museum of Naval Fire Power. TATTERSHALL CASTLE • The former fl eet fl agship, which is that year she took part in the took members of the Greek “CMB 331 is the grandfather of the former Humber paddle steamer moored at Palaio Faliro near Coronation Fleet Review for Government back to Athens. generations of light attack craft Tattershall Castle has been which followed”, said The National moved 100m upstream from her New Jersey paid off in 1991 and has been moored in Museum of the Royal Navy’s head of long-term berth on London’s NO MUSEUM Camden in her namesake state since October 2000. heritage development Nick Hewitt, Victoria Embankment to a new “through the motor torpedo boats berth opposite the London Eye. FOR AISLING and gunboats of World War II, right The move will allow work to begin PATROL VESSEL up to the missile boats in service all on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, over the world today.” a major new sewerage project. Hopes of preserving the Irish Tattershall Castle was expected to Naval Service patrol vessel reopen to the public in late May Aisling as a fl oating museum in after undergoing renovation. Galway have been dashed. The 37-year-old vessel has been sold HMAS DARWIN • The oldest at auction to Dutch shipbroker warship in the Royal Australian Dick Van Der Kamp for further Navy may be preserved as a resale on to the international REVAMP FOR NEW JERSEY fl oating museum after she is market. It seems likely that Aisling Home Port Alliance, responsible BATTLESHIP decommissioned later this year. will either go on to serve in a for the ship’s upkeep, and the Her namesake port of Darwin NT private offshore security role or Major improvements are being Board of Public Utilities. or the Australian National Maritime be converted to a yacht. made to the battleship New The work will reduce the Museum in Sydney have been put Jersey. Fluorescent lighting vessel’s annual energy bills, forward as possible locations, but aboard the vessel is being freeing up money to restore the Rockingham WA, where Darwin replaced by energy-effi cient decks and open up new areas of was based from 1993 to 2006, LEDs and the heating system the ship. ‘Big J’ was built in 1943 looks more likely. Darwin is an is being changed from oil to and saw active service during Oliver Hazard Perry/Adelaide natural gas as part of a $1.4 World War II, the Korean War class frigate and was built in 1984. million package funded by the and the Vietnam War. WILLIAM MURPHY

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Waterfront Aug 2017_NL.indd 18 07/06/2017 09:19 news Robin was built by Mackenzie, NEW WATERFRONT • www.shipsmonthly.com • Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry’s Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG • t > 01959 541444 e [email protected] MacAlpine and Co in Blackwall OWNERS in 1890. NICK HALL PORTSMOUTH 30 years after HMS Warrior returned to Portsmouth, it has been announced that her owners, the Warrior Preservation Trust, merged with The National Museum of the Royal Navy as of 1 April. Established in 2009, the National Museum of the Royal Navy already owns a number of key historic ships and collections in Portsmouth, Gosport and nationally. These include HMS Victory, World War I monitor HMS M33, the Royal Navy Submarine ROBIN MOVING CLOSER TO HOME Museum and Explosion Museum Space Management, said: ‘The Diana, will form the basis of an of Naval Firepower. STEAM COASTER history of maritime, shipbuilding open-air museum to help bring to SS Robin, the world’s oldest and dock-based trade on the life the rich heritage of the area NICK HALL complete steam coaster and the Thames around the mouth of from East India Dock Basin to last of her type in the world, is likely the River Lea, though of great Trinity Buoy Wharf.’ to be moved to a site just 150m importance to London, has largely Subject to the outcome of a from where she was built in 1890. disappeared from sight. planning application, it is hoped Eric Reynolds, the new ‘However, the collection of the to place SS Robin on shore at East Chairman of the SS Robin Trust SS Robin, and the tugs Knocker India Dock Basin. and founding director of Urban White and Varlet, and the lighter

UNDER RESTORATION SENT FOR DEMOLITION owner, Philippe Boullé, said he TRADING SCHOONER purchased the schooner to prevent Work has begun to restore a her from being demolished, as he Dutch-built three-masted schooner has a personal historical connection, which has lain abandoned in the having survived a voyage on her Seychelles for more than 40 years. through a violent storm. Isle of Farquhar arrived in the Isle of Farquhar was built in 1909 Seychelles in 1963 and was used to by Smit and Zoon at Groningen carry cargo and passengers to and as Zeemeeuw for Dutch owners, from the outlying islands of Agalega, and went on to sail for Finnish and Diego Garcia and Farquhar. Swedish companies before being Plans to use her as a floating acquired by a Mauritian company restaurant after she was withdrawn in 1942. She was then renamed La from service came to nought and Perle and used for nearly 20 years she was left to rot. Her current as a fishing fleet mother ship. Gebroeders Bever. NICK HALL

Isle of Farquhar. III and was powered by a STEAM TUG JOE LAURENCE, coal-fired 500ihp Lentz steam SEYCHELLES NEWS Sad news from Dordrecht in the engine but was converted to AGENCY Netherlands, where the 71-year- oil-firing in 1962. old steam tug Gebroeders In 1981 she was sold into Bever has been sold for private ownership via NV breaking. The veteran tug, Stolk’s Handelsonderneming which was built by Rotterdam of Hendrik Ido Ambacht and Drydock Company for its own renamed Gebroeders Bever. use, was laid down in 1941 but Six years later was transferred not completed until 1946. She for conservation to Stichting was originally named Dockyard Maritiem Trust at Dordrecht.

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or a relatively purchase coincided with the small nation, New proclamation of New Zealand Zealand has an as a Commonwealth Colony. impressive maritime In March 1860 the navy’s history. The Royal vessels took part in the First NewF Zealand Navy has been Taranaka War and in June involved in conflicts around 1860 HMS Pelorus attacked the world, ranging from Puketakauere Pa. In January Gallipoli in World War I to 1861 a gun crew from the the Battle of the River Plate ship helped to defend the in World War II and the Gulf British redoubt at Huirangi War more recently. against a Maori attack. HMS As part of the British Pelorus was replaced by HMS Empire, New Zealand’s naval Orpheus in 1862, but the latter protection was originally was wrecked at the entrance to provided by the Royal Navy, Manukau Harbour, claiming but in 1846 the settlers bought the lives of 189 of her crew. the nation’s first gunboat, The Royal Navy continued which was named Waikato, for to provide warships to the operations out of Porirua, for region until 1864, including £100 17s 6d; she remained HMS Curacoa, Esk, Fawn, in service until 1865. Her Miranda, Eclipse and Harrier

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 When HMS Chatham returned to the UK, several New Zealanders were on board, being sent to Britain for further training in their respective fields. They were in the UK for over a year and during that time served on the battleship HMS Revenge; the author’s father was among those receiving training.

 HMS Philomel, transferred to New Zealand in 1913, at Wellington in 1917. She became a training centre at Auckland for new recruits from New Zealand.

THE BATTLECRUISER HMS NEW ZEALAND In 1909 the Prime Minister Sir ten weeks calling at every port in Joseph Ward decided to fund a New Zealand, being seen by at least battlecruiser for the Royal Navy half the population of the country. based at the China Station at a She gained a distinguished wartime cost of £1,700,000. This ship, HMS record, playing a crucial role in the  The Division had two Acacia class sloops, HMS Laburnu and Veronica New Zealand, was one of three battles at Heligoland Bight, Dogger (pictured); the latter grounded for a short time during the Napier earthquake. Indefatigable class battlecruisers Bank and Jutland. and commissioned in November Throughout these the captain out of Auckland and Manukau Auckland. In the aftermath 1912. With a displacement of 18,500 wore a Maori piupiu (a warrior’s harbours. Throughout this of this incident, much was tons, she was powered by four-shaft skirt of rolled flax) and a greenstone period New Zealand felt spent on building sea defences direct drive steam turbines with 31 tiki, given to the ship by a Maori isolated and under threat, against any future attacks, Babcock & Wilcox watertube boilers chieftain in 1913 with the instruction notably in 1875, when the and a minelaying steamer was giving her a maximum speed of that they should always be worn by Russian warship Kaskowiski purchased from Scotland. 25 knots, exceeded on trials when the captain when going into battle. made a hoax invasion of The vessel was shipped she reached 26.39 knots. Her main HMS New Zealand was scrapped in to New Zealand in sections armament was four twin 12-inch 1923, but her four-inch guns went and reassembled with a new, turrets and she had a crew of 800. back to New Zealand, where they locally built engine. Named HMS New Zealand arrived in were used to arm Fort Dorset and Ellen Ballance, she went into Wellington in April 1913 and spent Godley Head. service in 1884 but proved unsuccessful and was replaced by two purpose-designed minelaying steamers, Janie Seddon and Lady Roberts. Four John Thornycroft standard-design second-class spar torpedo boats were also added: Defender, Taiaroa, Waitemata and Poneke were built in 1883 for service at Lyttelton, Port Charles, Auckland and Wellington. The lack of any significant naval base or maintenance facilities in New Zealand was a growing concern so, on 16 February 1888, the Calliope  HMS New Zealand at Lyttelton in 1913 during her tour of the Dominion. graving dock in Auckland, on

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Auckland for assistance. Crew from aftershocks felt during the rescue. Veronica went ashore to help and The naval crews were praised for found complete devastation. acting as firemen, and helping to cook From Auckland, Diomede and and distribute meals, drive tractors, Dunedin were both sent to Napier work as policemen and recover the with medical supplies, blankets, camp dead. Officers and men from the beds, stretchers, marquees, tents, three ships donated £530 to the doctors and nurses. On their way, the disaster fund, which had been set up galleys on both ships baked bread for subsequently. The three ships stayed the residents of Napier. On arrival, for a week. HMS Veronica was later shore parties were sent to assist in escorted by HMS Diomede back to the rescue and clearing rubble. Auckland to have her hull inspected I remember my father, who was for damage after her grounding on Diomede, telling me of the large during the quake. David Toy

 HMS Diomede and HMS Dunedin (seen here at Wellington in 1928) steamed through the night to Napier with medical staff and supplies to assist in the rescue of the inhabitants after the earthquake.

At 0700 on 3 February 1931 HMS the sloop parted. The ground rose Veronica arrived in Port Ahuriri, the by three metres for 30 seconds, port of Napier, while on a cruise of destroying most of Napier and New Zealand ports. The captain, surrounding settlements. Commander H. L. Morgan, was with The quake lasted two and a half the harbour master in his cabin when, minutes and was followed by severe at 1047, they heard a large explosion, aftershocks. The crew of Veronica with both men thinking it was on the managed to secure the ship, but ship. An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude all communication from Napier had hit Napier and the surrounding was severed and fires had broken area. The seabed rose into the ship’s out throughout the town. At 1054  Standing among the devastation of buildings after the Napier earthquake keel and six heavy hawsers holding Commander Morgan signalled are four of the crew from HMS Diomede; the author’s father is second left.

four acres of reclaimed land, was opened after three years of construction. The dry dock was the largest in the southern hemisphere at the time and a naval base grew up around it. Royal Navy commitment to the region led to an agreement at the 1887 Imperial Conference in London that the Australian Squadron would be supplemented by another joint Australian and New Zealand Naval force of five cruisers and two torpedo gunboats based at Sydney. Two ships would be stationed in New Zealand waters, with Australia and New Zealand paying the Royal Navy an annual subsidy of £120,000, a considerable amount of money. This arrangement lasted for the next 20 years. In 1907 an 805-ton gunboat called NZS Amokura was purchased to serve as a training ship. Two years later and half a world away,  A second cruiser, HMS Diomede, joined the New Zealand Division in 1926. the naval construction race

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between the UK and Germany to Chatham Dockyard for a together with HMS Exeter East, Mediterranean and the was quickly spiralling out of major refit, and the crew were and HMS Ajax. After the Red Sea and sank the Italian control and on 22 March transferred to other Royal engagement, HMS Achilles auxiliary cruiser Ramb I. 1909 the Prime Minister of Navy ships while their ship arrived back at Auckland in On 1 October 1941 King New Zealand, Sir Joseph was in England. With the refit February 1940 for a refit and George VI announced that Ward, offered to fund one or complete, she returned to then took up duties from the the fleet in New Zealand was two battlecruisers as a gift to Auckland in December 1930. New Zealand station. independent of the Royal the Royal Navy. The offer was In December 1938 HMS In 1941 HMS Leander Navy and would be known accepted and the battlecruiser Achilles returned to the UK to deployed to the Middle as The Royal New Zealand HMS New Zealand was exchange her Royal Navy crew subsequently built by Fairfield, and arrived back in Auckland at a cost of £1,783,190. in May the following year. THE LIGHT CRUISER HMS CHATHAM With hostilities in Europe NEW ZEALAND DIVISION about to break out again, both In 1913 the New Zealand ships were prepared for war at Naval Forces were established Auckland, loading stores and under the terms of the Naval ammunition, and then came Defence Act, and the old under Admiralty control. cruiser HMS Philomel was the The NZ Division was first ship to serve in the Force. heavily involved in World The navy’s title was changed War II. The most notable again after World War I, when action of the War involving the New Zealand Division of New Zealand ships was the the Royal Navy was established engaging of the German on 1 January 1921 pocket battleship Admiral  The coal-burning cruiser HMS Chatham became the flagship of the New By June 1928 there were 351 Graf Spee off the River Plate. Zealand Division in 1921. She was commissioned in 1912 and returned to personnel from New Zealand HMS Achilles, manned by Royal Navy service in 1924. in the division, and this was New Zealanders, took part in steadily increasing. In October the Battle of the River Plate HMS Chatham, a Town class light In 1922 the crew of HMS 1929 HMS Diomede went against Admiral Graf Spee, cruiser of 5,400 tons, commissioned Chatham donated a cup to the New in December 1912 with a main Zealand Football Association, which armament of eight single six-inch became known as the Chatham guns. She was fitted with Yarrow Cup and is still the premier football coal-fired boilers with three Parsons trophy today. My late father joined steam turbines giving a speed of the division during August 1922 25.5 knots. (entry No. NZD475) and served on During 1921 she took on HMS Chatham from February the board a small number of the first following year. volunteers from New Zealand as HMS Chatham visited the South Seaman Boys and Stokers to make Sea Islands within the New Zealand up her complement of 475 officers limits in 1923, undertook gunnery and men. HMS Philomel was then and torpedo exercises, and went to moved to Auckland as a training Australia for a short exercise with ship at the Devonport base. Two their cruisers. Once a year the crews  The cruiser HMNZS Gambia (HMS Gambia, pennant number 48, later C48) Acacia class sloops, HMS Laburnu of the ships carried out a musketry was a Crown Colony class light cruiser. She was in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) as HMNZS Gambia from 1943 to 1946. She was named after the then and HMS Veronica, were also course at the Trentham Wellington Crown colony of the Gambia, and has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to attached to the division. camp. David Toy bear the name. © STATE OF VICTORIA LIBRARY

 To replace HMS Chatham, the NZ Division received the cruiser HMS  The frigate HMNZS Te Mana operating with the American supercarrier USS Dunedin on 24 May 1924, when she became the flagship. Abraham Lincoln. © US NAVY

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New Zealand Navy_NL.indd 25 07/06/2017 09:44 The Kiwi replenishment vessel HMNZS Endeavour replenishing the frigate HMNZS Te Kaha and the Republic of Korea’s destroyer ROKS Choi Young. © US NAVY

Navy. In 1943 HMS Leander Loch Achray), Pukaki (ex- returned to the Pacifi c and HMS Loch Achanalt), Rotoiti spent the rest of the war (ex-HMS Loch Katrine), Taupo fi ghting Japanese forces, (ex-HMS Loch Shin) and suffering serious damage at Tutira (ex-HMS Loch Morlich). the Battle of Kolombangara. These ships and others In 1943 the light cruiser in the fl eet were heavily HMS Gambia was transferred involved in operations off from the Royal Navy and Korea, attacking coastal later took part in the Battle targets and performing of Okinawa and operations in intelligence-gathering roles. the Sakishima Islands. HMS The frigates continued in Achilles was sent to patrol the service until the mid-1960s, South Atlantic. Of her 567  The multi-role vessel HMNZS Canterbury, commissioned in June 2007, with the last pair in service, crew members, 56 per cent deployed to Tonga and Samoa in 2009. © ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY Kaniere and Rotoiti, being were from New Zealand. decommissioned in 1967. With the Devenport had grown in size and were transferred to replace In 1954 the Royal New dockyard in operation, good capability, with over 60 ships Gambia and Achilles, with the Zealand Navy took possession training facilities at Auckland in commission. This was far former becoming the fl agship of another modifi ed Dido class and local recruiting proving in excess of the needs of New of the fl eet, while Bellona cruiser, HMS Royalist, which fruitful, the division was Zealand in peacetime, and assumed the role of harbour replaced Bellona. During the becoming self-suffi cient. most of the vessels were sold training ship at Auckland. late 1950s the New Zealand or broken up by war’s end. Between 1948 and 1949 six Government invested in POST-WAR BUILDING In 1946 two modifi ed Dido British Loch class frigates were replacing their obsolete ships by By the end of the war the class cruisers, HMS Black purchased: Hawea (ex-HMS ordering two Type 12 frigates, Royal New Zealand Navy Prince and HMS Bellona, Lock Eck), Kaniere (ex-HMS similar in layout and armament

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 HMNZS Canterbury leading LCU 1665 and HMAS’s Balikpapan and Betano through the Segond Channel at Vanuatu on 9 May 2011. © US NAVY

Taupo and Hawea. They remained in service until 1991. In October 1981 the former HMS Bacchante was acquired from the Royal Navy and, following a refi t, entered service as HMNZS Wellington. The Ikara-armed HMS Dido was also bought and joined her sistership in New Zealand in December 1983 as HMNZS Southland. These two modern frigates  The Anzac class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha. © ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY to their British counterparts, replaced the elderly HMNZS from British shipyards. The Otago and HMNZS Taranaki. RNZN FLEET fi rst, Otago, was built by J, In the late 1980s the QUANTITY TYPE NAMES Thornycroft at Southampton RNZN and Royal Australian 2 Anzac class frigates HMNZS Te Kaha and HMNZS Te Mana and the second, Taranaki, by Navy decided to purchase 1 Multi Role vessel HMNZS Canterbury J. S. White at Cowes. German MEKO class frigates, 1 Replenishment Tanker HMNZS Endeavour In 1964 the fi rst Leander to be built in the Australian 2 Offshore Protector class HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Wellington class frigate for New Zealand, shipyard at Transfi eld. The Waikato, was laid down at Kiwis opted to build a pair of 4 Inshore Protector class HMNZS Rotoiti, HMNZS Hawea, HMNZS Pukaki and HMNZS Taupo Harland & Wolff, and was these capable frigates. On 19 completed on 16 September September 1994 HMNZS Te 1 Diving support ship HMNZS Manuwanui 1966. The second of the class, Kaha was laid down, followed Canterbury, was laid down by sistership HMNZS Te on 12 April 1969 at Yarrow’s. Mana on 18 May 1996. In June 1966 the Royal Navy By the early years of the loaned the Kiwis the Whitby 21st century much of the class frigate HMS Blackpool, fl eet of small and support and she was returned to the vessels were showing their age, Royal Navy in 1971. and a multi-million pound During the 1970s several replacement programme was small coastal warships were put in place. The ro-ro vessel built, including four Pukaki HMNZS Charles Upham, class patrol craft by Brooke purchased in 1994 and deleted Marine at Lowestoft. Each in 2001, had provided a sealift took the name of former Loch capability, and her replacement class frigates: Pukaki, Rotoiti, was based on the IOM ferry  In formation in the Cook Strait are (clockwise from foreground) HMNZS vessel Ben-my-Chree. The Otago, HMNZS Wellington, HMNZS Te Mana and HMNZS Canterbury.

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New Zealand Navy_NL.indd 27 07/06/2017 09:45 The multi-role vessel HMNZS Canterbury is designed to provide sealift capabilities; her initial service was marred by unreliability issues.

construction of HMNZS Canterbury was commissioned built to an offshore patrol Canterbury was subcontracted into service on 12 June 2007. confi guration, while the other to Merwede Shipyards in the The Protector programme four vessels were tailored for Netherlands by Tenix Shipyards saw the commissioning of six inshore patrol service. All six in Williamstown, and she was Protector class patrol vessels entered service between 2007 launched on 11 February of two distinct types. Two and 2008. 2006. Final fi tting-out was vessels, HMNZS Otago and The next important change  HMNZS Hawea is one of four carried out in Australia and HMNZS Wellington, were in the composition of the 340-tonne inshore patrol vessels. fl eet is a replacement for the © ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY elderly replenishment tanker  The 1,900-tonne offshore patrol HMNZS Endeavour. Daewoo vessel HMNZS Wellington. SB&ME and Hyundai Heavy  The diving support vessel HMNZS Industries were shortlisted for Manuwanui. © ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY the fi nal phase in the tender programme in September 2015 to build a replacement vessel for the small but capable Royal New Zealand Navy.

HMNZS Endeavour alongside in port. © ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY

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Queen Elizabeth, freshly painted in company livery of black hull, with white upperworks, returned to Southampton in the 1940s for dry-docking and final provisioning before she made her maiden voyage. This was to be Queen Elizabeth’s first outing as a passenger ship, eight years after she had been launched.

The new liner was launched 1946 that she served in her  In 1967 Queen Mary was sold, after around 1,000 transatlantic voyages, by HRH Queen Elizabeth, intended role as an ocean being purchased by the oil-rich City of Long Beach, who refitted her as a tourist attraction. She is shown here during her conversion in dry dock at Long Beach. who was accompanied by her liner. Her maiden passenger daughters, Princesses Elizabeth voyage, scheduled for April and Margaret Rose, for the 1940, was cancelled. By then occasion. Her husband, King she was painted grey all over, George VI, was unable to and essential work required attend due to unexpected to make her serviceable was commitments in London under way while meetings involving the Munich crisis were held between Cunard and developments in Europe. and the Admiralty to decide With a design that what should be done with her. improved upon that of the In the end she was sent first of the new liners, Queen to New York, but she was Mary, Queen Elizabeth was a untested, and as wartime slightly larger ship, the largest conditions meant there was passenger liner ever built at no time for sea trials and that time and for 56 years a shakedown cruise, such thereafter. She also had the a voyage was an unknown distinction of being the largest proposition. Leaving the riveted ship by gross tonnage. Clyde on 2 March 1940, Queen Elizabeth first entered she had four destroyers service in February 1940 as accompanying her as far as a troopship in World War II, Rathlin Island, and then she and it was not until October began the Atlantic crossing.

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Queen Elzabeth_NL.indd 32 07/06/2017 09:57 The new 42,424gt dual-fuel LNG-powered vehicle carrier Auto Eco departing Southampton for Zeebrugge on 9 April having arrived from Bremerhaven. She was built in China and christened in Zeebrugge in November 2016. ANDREW COOKE SHIPS PICTORIAL Have you an outstanding photo that would grace our gallery? Send your image to Ships Monthly for inclusion in these pages, which showcase the best in ship photography around the world.

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Ships Pictorial Aug 2017_NL.indd 33 07/06/2017 10:00 Oceania Cruises’ 30,277gt cruise The Cal Mac ferry Hebridean The 9,175gt Singapore-flagged The 2006-built container ship Seago ship Sirena (ex-R Four, Tahitian Isles (3,040gt) in the Sound of Islay LPG tanker Stella Kosan (2008) with Felixstowe (48,788gt/53,700dwt) Princess, Ocean Princess) approaching on passage from Port Askaig to the 2,143gt tanker Fredericia (2008) departing Felixstowe. The Denmark- Fremantle, Australia in March. Built by Kennacraig. Completed in 1985 by bunkering in Weymouth in April. flagged ship is operated by Seago Chantiers de l’Atlantique at St Nazaire Cochrane Shipbuilders, Selby, she was Portland and Weymouth provide a Shipping, which specialises in container in 1999, she has a total of 826 berths the first Cal Mac vessel to be built sheltered spot for ships to fuel. STEVE shipping through the Med to the North and a crew of 373. DAVID FRASER outside Scotland. ANDREW WOOD BELASCO/ JURASSICPHOTOGRAPHIC.COM Atlantic and Baltic. PETER WESTCOTT

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Ships Pictorial Aug 2017_NL.indd 35 07/06/2017 10:00 MARIPOSA AND MONTEREY CARGO SHIPS TO LUXURY LINERS Allan E. Jordan recalls the unusual story of two US Government-built cargo ships that went on to have long and illustrious careers, sailing as luxury liners for Matson to the South Pacific and later as cruise ships.

 During the 1970s Monterey and her sistership Mariposa sailed for Pacific Far East Line.

n the history of Pacific Australia, and Lurline and the travel there is no more slightly older Malolo (later storied name than Matsonia) sailing to Hawaii. Matson announced their plans that of the Matson After World War II Matsonia in 1954 with the highly stylised Navigation Company, resumed the Hawaii run, rendering; note the name founded in 1882 by Captain while the three larger liners Oceanic on the bow for Matson’s I subsidiary, which would officially William Matson with a 195-ton were simultaneously rebuilt at operate the sisterships. schooner for the Hawaiian Matson’s California shipyard. sugar trade. During the 1930s Confronted with more stringent Matson set the standard for safety standards in the post-war luxury travel, with the 18,000gt era, as well as an insufficient liners Mariposa and Monterey financial settlement, and sailing from California to material and labour shortages,

Free State Mariner, as built, in the colours of her first operator, Farrell Lines.

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Matson liners_NL.indd 36 07/06/2017 09:33 CLASSIC LINERS MARIPOSA AND MONTEREY CARGO SHIPS TO LUXURY LINERS the project spiralled out of control. Only Lurline resumed service in 1948, while work on the incomplete Mariposa and Monterey was suspended. Years of financial negotiations with the US Government ensued, and, while Matson briefly attempted to restart Mariposa’s  Free State Mariner (left) and Pine Tree Mariner (right) side by side, around reconstruction, ultimately they the time they were handed over to Matson in 1955. sold the sisterships. Despite setbacks, Matson continued to be interested in restoring services to Australia and New Zealand. First they chartered a Government-built troopship for an austerity passenger service and then maintained the route with freighters while working with naval architects Gibbs & Cox to design new passenger ships. Finally, in 1954, Matson proposed to the US Maritime Administration (MarAd) chartering an existing ship to  Monterey shows her sturdy design on her first arrival in Hawaii in 1957.  Matson fares brochure from 1956. resume passenger service to the Antipodes while constructing 35 ships were ordered from either two 500-passenger seven different shipyards, but 20-knot ships or one or two commercial fleets initially 800-passenger 26-knot ships. scorned the Mariners as too Among the obstacles to large and costly for their implementing the plan was operations. At 14,000dwt, Matson’s inability to identify a and with a length of 563ft, ship suitable for charter, while they carried over 760,000ft3 of the financial aid from the US cargo. They achieved a 20-knot Government was uncertain. service speed with a single In the interim, Orient Line propeller and a propulsion plant commenced a number of consisting of two steam boilers successful trial voyages from and a cross-compounded Australia to Vancouver via double reduction gear turbine. Honolulu and San Francisco. An unlikely third alternative, FREIGHTER CONVERSION reconstructing existing cargo Matson selected the freighter ships, emerged as a faster and conversion using designs less costly solution. MarAd, developed by Bethlehem which was anxious to find Steel and Gibbs & Cox, and deployment for its new C-4 completed the acquisition type Mariner class freighters, of the two cargo ships from supported the conversion. MarAd on 28 July 1955. The Mariner programme Free State Mariner had been had started in the early 1950s built in 1952 by Bethlehem to create a large and fast Steel’s Sparrows Point, generation of cargo ships: Maryland shipyard, and

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Matson liners_NL.indd 37 07/06/2017 09:33 Near the end of her years with Matson, Mariposa is rust streaked but still showing off her lines.

Pine Tree Mariner in 1953 ship, maintained 21.7 knots on by Bethlehem Steel’s yard her endurance test, and topped in Quincy, Mass. Both had 22 knots with 19,250shp on briefl y supported the military her full speed run. and were then chartered to Despite cool temperatures Pacifi c Far East Line. and a drenching rain, 18 The newly acquired October was a festive day as the freighters went to the new Mariposa was christened Willamette Iron and Steel Co and sailed for California, where of Portland, Oregon, where she received a boisterous work began on removing welcome. Everywhere the ships the existing deckhouse and went they met with acclaim. all fi ttings above the main They had a comfortable, deck, ready for a new steel modern décor accentuated with superstructure. Passenger Polynesian art and design, and accommodations were created, Matson’s famous luxury service. including 172 staterooms Departing on 26 October for 365 passengers, as well for her maiden voyage,  Thirty years after her arrival in Hawaii, an updated Monterey returned in as a main lounge, nightclub, Mariposa inaugurated a 1988 as a cruise ship. MARK A. HEINRICH veranda bar, deck café, dining- 42-day round trip from San room and theatre. The new Francisco and Los Angeles ships would be 14,800gt. The to Honolulu, Papeete, Pago existing propulsion plant was Pago, Suva, Wellington, maintained, along with nearly Auckland, Melbourne and 240,000ft3 of cargo capacity, Sydney. Two months later but, to compensate for the Free State Mariner, which increased top weight, 2,700 was renamed Monterey, was tons of fi xed ballast was added. christened and sailed for New hydraulic hatch covers California to begin her maiden would speed cargo operations, voyage on 8 January 1957. and the sisterships became the With the successful launch of fi rst American passenger ships the South Pacifi c service, and fi tted with fi n-type stabilisers. the return of the 1932-built Pine Tree Mariner, which Monterey sailing to Hawaii as was renamed Mariposa, was Matsonia, Matson’s passenger completed fi rst. She went service was enjoying a brief on sea trials at the end of renaissance. However, it was September 1956, and, even short-lived, as by 1961 the with her unique design of passenger operations were  Mariposa arriving at Matson’s terminal in the Port of Los Angeles. being a single-screw passenger recording fi nancial losses.

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Mariposa and Monterey received a Government operating subsidy, but Lurline and Matsonia operated unsubsidised to Hawaii. As a result, Matsonia was briefl y laid up before being renamed Lurline to  The Lanai Suites featured a sitting replace her sistership, which area separated from the beds. had been sold to Chandris. Throughout the 1960s Matson increasingly marketed the voyages as cruises, but then in 1968 Mariposa and Monterey began replacing some of their South Pacifi c liner voyages with shorter trips to Alaska, Mexico and Hawaii, and a cruise to South  The dining-room aboard the sisterships, circa 1960s, illustrates America and the Galapagos their mid-century modern décor. Islands. While the sisterships continued to generate a profi t of $1.5 to $2.5 million  Sold to the Chinese, Mariposa was renamed Jin Jiang, sailing between annually, their government Shanghai and Hong Kong. operating subsidy had risen from less than $3 million a year in the 1950s to nearly $8 million in 1970.  After the ship had spent nearly a INTO RETIREMENT decade in lay-up, the reconstruction Despite years of struggling of Monterey included extensive with its passenger operations, additions to her superstructure and Matson still shocked Hawaii hull repairs. She is seen here at and the shipping world in May Wärtsilä preparing for her fitting-out. 1970 with the sale of Lurline to Chandris. While they said they would continue to operate the sisterships, just fi ve months later the South Pacifi c operations, including Mariposa and Monterey, were sold to Pacifi c Far East Line (PFEL). Mariposa was handed over on 21 January 1971, followed  Monterey’s reconstruction in 1988 involved a month-long drydocking in by Monterey on 15 February, Baltimore, at the yard where she was  Monterey at Iraklion with the first MSC colours but still bearing the stylised but other than replacing the built. MARK A. HEINRICH American flag on her bow. PETER FITZPATRICK Matson ‘M’ on the funnel with the golden bear logo, Government subsidies due to operations remained largely end when the ships reached unchanged. The ships still the age of 25, their economic sailed to the South Pacifi c and lives were running out. Since Hawaii, plus cruising to Mexico 1956 the ships had received and Alaska, with a 58-day cruise over $130 million in operating to the Mediterranean aboard subsidies and, by the mid- Monterey. PFEL added long 1970s, nearly $18 million a cruises, including a 90-day year, or $1,200 per passenger, world cruise and a 60-day was coming to the ships. Grand Pacifi c Circle, followed PFEL contended that the by more trips to the Orient liners remained profi table and Mediterranean, and an with their subsidies, while epic 70-day North Cape, MarAd argued that with the Russia and Northern Europe proper accounting of overhead cruise in 1977. expenses, Mariposa and  During Monterey’s 1980s reconstruction, a large new stern deck and cabins Mariposa and Monterey had Monterey were money losers were added, as well as sponsons on the hull to provide additional buoyancy. become the last American- and should be retired. Farrell MICHAEL J. MASINO fl ag liners, but with their Lines discussed buying PFEL

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Matson liners_NL.indd 39 07/06/2017 09:33 Monterey anchored in the Mediterranean on her final cruise in 2006. MICHAEL J. MASINO

and appeals were made to Hawaiian Islands. Among the weekly trips around the extend the operating subsidies groups proposing to restart Hawaiian islands. for another five years, while Hawaiian cruises was a new She was towed to Portland, both the Iranian Government firm, Royal Hawaiian Cruises, Oregon for hull work and and a construction contractor that repeatedly announced then Tacoma, Washington, in South American also plans to start operations with where work began removing inquired about the sisterships. Monterey and hoped also to the cargo facilities and Further, the 1956 conversion purchase Mariposa. extending the superstructure had reportedly stretched the However, with little to increase her capacity to 600  Seen here laid up in San Francisco ships to their limits and now movement, in November passengers. In 1987 the now Bay in 1982, Monterey faced a very they required hull and boiler 1980 the C. Y. Tung Group, 20,000gt ship was towed to uncertain future. repairs as well as a costly new which had successfully the famed Wärtsilä Shipyard in sanitation system. launched American Hawaii Finland, where the outfitting With her operating subsidy Cruises, purchased Mariposa. would be completed. expiring, Monterey tied She was towed to Japan After 11 years Monterey was up for the last time on 19 but was later resold to the nearly ready to resume service, January 1978, followed by an China Ocean Shipping Co. but the work was behind emotional farewell as Mariposa Refitted with diesel engines schedule, causing the planned cast off from Honolulu for and renamed Jin Jiang, she 31 July 1988 maiden voyage the last time on 2 April 1978, operated between Shanghai from Copenhagen to the US to arriving in San Francisco five and Hong Kong. She went be cancelled. Instead, Monterey days later. PFEL had filed through additional changes in sailed to Baltimore, Maryland for bankruptcy and the once ownership and name, before for additional work and new  Monterey’s 1980s refit into a proud ships were laid up. A being scrapped in 1996. stabilisers before commencing a cruise ship created a large new lido year later, they were sold at Tung also made an offer trans-Canal cruise to California deck and pool. auction to an entrepreneur for Monterey but instead she and her ‘Grand Homecoming who believed he could make a was sold to the International Cruise’ to Hawaii. profit on their resale. Organization of Masters, Mates Aboard, the passengers & Pilots as an investment by found an updated décor RETURN TO SERVICE the union in restoring the for the 1980s and new The story of Mariposa and American merchant marine. features, but after a decade Monterey might have ended Monterey languished until of inactivity there were there except for regulations 1986, when she was acquired mechanical problems, while that required American-built, by a partnership, and a new an inexperienced crew created  On her last cruise in 2006, Monterey’s bridge shows a -owned and -operated ships firm, Aloha Pacific Cruises, shortcomings in the onboard combination of historic and modern to carry passengers in coastal was formed to market her service and, lacking money, technology. MICHAEL J. MASINO waters, including around the as a luxury cruise ship on the marketing operations were

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MARIPOSA AND MONTEREY MARIPOSA MONTEREY BUILT 1953 Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts 1952 Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point, Maryland ORIGINAL NAME Pine Tree Mariner (US Maritime Administration) Free State Mariner (US Maritime Administration) NAMES/OWNERS 1956-71: Mariposa (The Oceanic Steamship Co/ 1956-71: Mariposa (The Oceanic Steamship Co/ (OPERATORS) Matson) Matson) 1971-79: Mariposa (Pacific Far East Line) 1971-79: Monterey (Pacific Far East Line) 1979-80: Mariposa (World Airways) 1979-80: Monterey (World Airways) 1980-83: Mariposa (C. Y. Tung) 1980-86: Monterey (International Organization of 1983-92: Jin Jiang (China Ocean Shipping Co) Masters, Mates & Pilots) 1993: Queen of Jin Jiang (Golden Chance Ltd) 1987-89: Monterey (SS Monterey Ltd Partnership/ 1994-1996: Heng Li (Beihai Hai Tai International Aloha Pacific Cruises) Shipping Co) 1990-2006: Monterey (Mediterranean Shipping Co) REBUILT 1955-56 Willamette Iron & Steel Co, Portland, 1955-56 Willamette Iron and Steel Co, Portland, Oregon Oregon 1983 China 1986-87 Dillingham Ship Repair, Portland, Oregon; Tacoma Boat Building Co, Tacoma, Washington 1987-88 Wärtsilä, Turku, Finland TONNAGE 14,000dwt (as built), 14,813gt (as passenger ship) 14,000dwt (as built), 14,799gt (as passenger ship), 20,046gt (after 1988) DIMENSIONS 171m x 23m x 8.8m 171m x 23m x 8.8m SPEED 20 knots 20 knots MACHINERY Two boilers and one Bethlehem cross- Two boilers and one Bethlehem cross-compounded compounded turbine with double-reduction gear turbine with double-reduction gear CAPACITY 760,000ft3 of cargo (as built) 760,000ft3 of cargo (as built) 365 passengers (after conversion) 365 passengers (after conversion) 600 passengers (after 1988)

emerged, a second auction was An established cargo then began to build new scheduled for 15 March 1990 company, MSC had also generations of large cruise and this time it was reported recently entered the cruise ships. Finally, in the summer that three international buyers business, investing in and later of 2006, boiler problems were interested. The Lelakis acquiring Star Lauro. Monterey began to interfere with her group, which a year earlier had began her new life cruising in operations and by autumn purchased the former Grace the Mediterranean, the Black Monterey was on her way Line Santa Rosa, also expressed Sea, and the Canary Islands as to India to be scrapped. interest, but failed to emerge as well as marketing ex-UK cruises Few would have predicted a bidder. Instead, Monterey was and later expanding MSC’s that the little single-screw sold to the bank, which quickly operations in South Africa. ship, converted from a resold her to a Panamanian Monterey developed a loyal Government-built freighter, corporation that chartered her following, but increasingly would become so popular and  With their operating subsidies to Mediterranean Shipping became an anachronism operate for so many years as a expiring, Pacific Far East Line issued a brochure for what would be their Company (MSC). as MSC first acquired and luxury cruise ship. last Hawaiian cruises.  Sold to the Tung Group, Mariposa was towed to limited. Also complicating the Japan, where she is seen laid up in 1981. situation was a competitor’s lawsuit challenging the ship’s coastwise privileges. Monterey completed only 19 weekly cruises in Hawaii before her owners declared bankruptcy in February 1989. At first they planned to continue sailings, but discussions with Cunard and Hyatt Hotels failed. So she was laid up for a month before a brief return to service. Finally, on 13 May, she tied up for the last time. Days later she was seized by creditors and remained idle in Honolulu until she was ordered sold at auction in December. When no bidders

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Matson liners_NL.indd 41 07/06/2017 09:33 The Doxford Turret Ethelwynne of 1904 was owned in Whitby by Robert Harrowing and Co. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

CORNISH TRAMP OWNERS Edward Hain (1851-1917) belonged to the fourth generation of a St Ives family SMALL PORTS involved with the sea. He recognised that iron steamers were the future, and exploited family connections with AND local bankers of the Bolitho BIG SHIPS family to fi nance such ships, Roy Fenton considers UK ship owners whose ambition beginning in 1878 with Trewidden, named after outgrew their home port’s facilities. Bolitho’s estate. At 240ft she new ships and recording any was too big for Hain’s home changes to existing ones which port, but was nevertheless legislation demanded, including registered in St Ives. ownership, rig or master. Edward Hain initially But sometimes the owner’s used the 64th share system ambition was to own ships and, from 1885, single-ship much larger than their home companies to fi nance his port could accommodate. This growing fl eet. However, in feature looks fi rstly at men from minor ports who built and successfully traded major fl eets of ocean-going ships, and then goes on to relate other cases of loyalty to small ports.

 Hain’s Trewidden of 1891 was registered in St Ives, a port the ocean-going tramp steamer was too large to enter. She is seen in the River Avon. BRISTOL SERIES/AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

n the 19th century most there. Local registration was aspiring ship owners a matter of showing both were quite content loyalty to, and pride in, a to base themselves home port, and a matter of in their local port. convenience. Any signifi cant IThey used local crews, local port had a local registrar of builders and other services, ships – often a customs offi cial and registered their ships – who dealt with documenting

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1901 he set up the Hain Steamship Co Ltd with a capital of £500,000, to which all ships were transferred. Consolidation of ownership in this way reduced administration and allowed Hain to increase his personal financial interest. A remarkable aspect of Hain’s story is his loyalty to just one shipbuilder, John Readhead and Co of South Shields. There were other owners who favoured one particular builder, but an unbroken sequence of 74 steamers delivered to Hain from this South Shields yard between 1878 and 1918 must be unique. Despite their Cornish registration, Hain’s ships worked the typical tramp  The last ship completed at the Whitehall Shipyard, Whitby was Broomfield, built by Thomas Turnbull for his own account trades: coal from South Wales in 1902 and registered at Whitby. Once she had left the yard, it is unlikely she ever returned to Whitby. BRISTOL SERIES or the Tyne out, grain and other foodstuffs homewards. German air raid on London in takeover, when management WHITBY’S TRAMP SHIPS Apart from management June 1917, dying three months was moved from St Ives to No other British port saw and registration, the strongest later at his home near St Ives. London, leaving the local so many owners expanding connection with Cornwall was In little more than a month office to deal mainly with their fleets beyond their their officers. In January 1900 the company was in new staffing matters. Registration of homeport’s requirements 20 out of the 22 masters in hands, P&O’s Lord Inchcape new Hain ships in St Ives lasted than Whitby. Ship owners in Hain ships were born in the making an offer of over £4 only until the late 1920s. the Yorkshire seaside town county, with a similarly high million for the 23 ships. Perhaps in an effort to had a long history of carrying proportion of other officers Inchcape wished to preserve emulate Hain, from 1881 bulk cargoes, especially coal and engineers. Shipping and Hain’s separate identity and John Banfield of Penzance between north-east ports and family losses during World the P&O group were steadfast floated a number of single-ship London. Its wooden sailing War I brought the end of in doing this, right up to 1964, companies to take delivery of colliers were so renowned the Hain Steamship Co when the Hain Steamship ocean-going tramps built by that local man Captain Cook Ltd as a Cornish-controlled Co Ltd was amalgamated Schlesinger, Davis and Co on could insist to the Admiralty undertaking. Sir Edward with another P&O subsidiary the Tyne. Unlike Banfield’s that one could be trusted for a Hain’s only son, the fifth to become Hain-Nourse earlier coastal-trading venture, round-the-world voyage. Edward Hain, who was being Management Ltd. The ‘Tre-’ the West Cornwall Steam Ship The port did have a yard groomed to succeed him, was names survived even longer, Co Ltd, his tramp outfit did not capable of building in iron, killed at Gallipoli in 1915. not disappearing until 1975. prosper: the fleet was not further that of Thomas Turnbull and Sir Edward never recovered However, the connection increased, and by 1895 the Son, which was in business from this loss and was badly with Cornwall was largely largest steamers ever registered shaken when present during a severed soon after the 1917 in Penzance had been sold.  Headlam’s motor ship Egton of 1962 was the last tramp owned in Whitby, spending the last nine years of her life laid up at Hartlepool. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

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Small ports_NL.indd 43 07/06/2017 10:02 from 1871 until 1902, when principally with coal out to was that the title Headlam When photographed in the Panama Canal in March, Stena it delivered Broomfield to the the Mediterranean or South and Rowland was then Clear Sky surprised the author yard owner’s fleet. But the America, with grain home. adopted for the management by being registered in the port of Whitby provided few if As with many other fleets, company, although most port of Stranraer. AUTHOR any cargoes, and its ambitious World War I was hard on the of the ships it controlled tramp owners looked to Harrowing fleet, which emerged remained registered under the big coal ports such as with just three steamers. These the ownership of Rowland & Newcastle and Cardiff for their faced such difficult trading Marwood Steamship Co Ltd. trade. The Turnbull family conditions in the 1920s that Following the retirement of also established branches in by 1934 all had been sold. the last Rowland in 1927, the Cardiff as Turnbull Brothers The best-known and managing company simply and in London as Turnbull, longest-lived Whitby tramp became Headlam and Son. Scott, the latter surviving fleet had a complex history, and Unlike other Whitby concerns, almost to the end of the 20th is known both as the Rowland Headlam’s fleet expanded in century. But their Whitby & Marwood Steamship Co the 1920s and 1930s. operation, Thomas Turnbull Ltd and Headlam and Son. Despite heavy World War II and Son, Shipping Co Ltd, The Marwood name recalled losses, it was partly rebuilt in dwindled, with its last ship, Christopher Marwood, post-war years, including the Hawkser, being sold in 1918. originally a sailing ship acquisition of two Liberties, Another notable Whitby owner who ordered his first Sandsend and Sneaton. Steam tramp owner was Robert steamers in 1883. A slightly gave way to diesel slowly, Harrowing, who began in older company, Rowland and the first motor ship being sail about 1848, and soon Robinson, was taken over by bought in 1952 and renamed added steamers to his fleet. Marwood in 1899, and by Kildale. New ships followed, Initially, these had local names 1904 his fleet had peaked at culminating in Egton, completed such as Ouse and York, but 27 ships. William Headlam at Sunderland in 1962. in 1889 a new and larger had joined the company as Depressed trading ship was delivered, Ethelreda, an office boy in the 1880s, conditions led to Egton being building ships in Whitby. which prompted a new and and slowly rose through the laid up in 1977 at Hartlepool, Baron Ardrossan established a distinctive naming scheme. hierarchy until he was one of where she was maintained naming scheme for Hogarth’s Ships like the Turret-deck its managers in 1914. in good condition, but for powered ships which survived Ethelwynne of 1904 traded A measure of his influence eight years she languished for over a century, and all had in Jackson Dock. Inevitably, Ardrossan on their sterns. there were pleas to have her Hogarth’s flag incorporated preserved as an example of the the letters HH for the once-numerous British tramp founder’s initials, but ship, but she was towed away seamen maintained it stood to breakers in Finland early in for ‘Hungry Hogarths’. 1986, the very last of a long Tramp ship owners (and line of Whitby-owned tramps. not just the Hogarths) were regarded as being particularly HUNGRY HOGARTHS parsimonious when it came To Scotland now for a major to victualling. A peculiarity tramp ship company which of Hogarth’s houseflag was was born in Ardrossan. Hugh that it was always flown from Hogarth began as a partner the foremast, contrary to in a ship stores company in established practice, which  Reardon Smith’s motor ship East Lynn of 1928 was, like much of this Cardiff this western Scottish port in maintained a house flag was owner’s fleet, registered in the small Devon port of Bideford. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 1862, and within six years always hoisted at the main. had begun to build up a In 1965 Hogarths entered fleet of sailing ships. With the bulk carrier era with names like Corryvrechan and their Baron Inverforth and Macrihanish, these much- proceeded to replace their admired ships and barques attractive but increasingly took the name of their home uneconomic engines- port, Ardrossan, to South amidships tramps with Africa, Australasia and the bulkers. This led to a joint West Coast of North America. venture with another Glasgow Although Hugh Hogarth tramp owner, Lyle Shipping, continued to live in Ardrossan, in which Scottish Ship he moved his business to Management Ltd was set up Glasgow in 1880, at the same to look after both companies’ time ordering his first steamer, fleets. But despite this bold  Like all of Hogarth’s ships, Baron Carnegie of 1925 was registered in the coincidentally from Thomas initiative, Hogarths gave up founder’s home town, Ardrossan. SHIPS IN FOCUS Turnbull, mentioned above, ship owning in 1986.

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THE CASE OF BIDEFORD Appledore and used the local There is a rather different registration port, Bideford. In explanation of how the name fact, the town was no longer LOYALTY TO WHITEHAVEN of the small North Devon port a registry port, but Reardon- of Bideford came to appear on Smith successfully lobbied to the sterns of a major fleet of have it reinstated as one. tramp ships. During the early In recent years ship 20th century, in one of the registration has become rather periodical shipping depressions meaningless. It is quite normal when ship values were much to see massive ships with the reduced, some ship owners name of the small Manx port revived a traditional way of of Douglas on their stern. getting their money back. And the situation with the few It was called barratry, remaining British shipowners or secretly scuttling, and is no better: they can choose claiming on the insurance for to register their ships wherever its full insured and sometimes they like. This has seen the inflated value. Needless to say, brief return of Runcorn on at it was highly illegal: in fact in least one coaster’s stern: the earlier centuries a master found Cheshire town was only ever  Registration at Whitehaven can be discerned on the stern of guilty of barratry faced the a registration port for a brief Kennaugh’s Rydal Force of 1924 as the big steam coaster leaves Preston. WORLD SHIP PHOTO LIBRARY death penalty. For some reason, period in the 1890s. certain unscrupulous Cardiff On a recent visit to the entiment was undoubtedly Kennaugh’s ships were relatively owners especially were known to Panama Canal, the author was Sbehind the decision of the large as steam coasters went resort to this practice. It became surprised to see the 110,000- owners of a steam coaster fleet to to accommodate such cargoes. so notorious that ships with ton gas carrier Stena Clear continue registering their ships in Careful, and some would claim the name ‘Cardiff’ on a stern Sky registered in Stranraer. Whitehaven even after they had parsimonious, management kept attracted a certain opprobrium. But at least her owners, decamped from the Cumbrian the fleet growing, and in 1905 Some responsible and Stena, do have some local town to the much more important the six single-ship companies respectable Cardiff ship connection, running ferries out shipping centre of Liverpool. W. S. which owned the ships were owners were so appalled of this Scottish port. This is a Kennaugh and Co began owning amalgamated into the West Coast that they began to register reminder that, as in the case steamers at Whitehaven in 1883, Shipping Co Ltd, and its operations their ships elsewhere. Evan of Hain, Headlam, Hogarth, when their first Scale Force was transferred to Liverpool. Thomas, Radcliffe moved his Reardon-Smith and Kennaugh, delivered by the local shipyard But when their three surviving ships to the London register. sentiment can be a consideration of R. Williamson and Son. steam coasters went to the breakers An equally important Cardiff in an owner’s choice of which Whitehaven was a centre for in 1959, they all still had Whitehaven owner, Sir William Reardon- home port’s name is painted on manufacturing railway rails, and proudly painted on their sterns. Smith, recalled his birthplace in his sterns.

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Small ports_NL.indd 45 07/06/2017 10:02 AMERICA’S PORT David Brown profiles the Port of Los Angeles, which handles everything from container ships to cruise liners, and is one of the busiest ports in the USA.

n 1542 the Portuguese 1769, and by 1849, when explorer Juan California became part of the Rodriguez Cabrillo, Union of States, it was an attracted by the smoke important commercial centre. from native peoples’ Over the next century and a Ifires, discovered a bay with a half breakwaters were built, natural harbour on the coast the main shipping channel was of what is now California, and dredged to a depth of 53ft, a port was born. Although it and berths were built to create took time, over 450 years later a port that today is capable of the bay is now home to one of handling the largest ships. the largest and busiest artificial Los Angeles is the number harbours in the world. one port by container volume Spanish traders and and cargo value in the United missionaries started using States. In 2015 it handled San Pedro Bay for trading in 8.1 million TEUs at its eight

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 San Pedro Bay and the Port of Los Angeles. PORT OF LOS ANGELES

Port of Los Angeles Main Channel with berths for cruise ships and container ships. PORT OF LOS ANGELES

 The preserved Victory ship Lane Victory at her permanent mooring. major container terminals. the main channel, travellers Algeria en route to meeting Intermodal Container Transfer As well as boxboats, it also had to take harbour ferries. Winston Churchill and Josef Facility opened in 1986. handles cruise ships and cargo On the western side of the Stalin in Tehran in 1943. She The first container terminals vessels carrying breakbulk, dry main channel is the Victory is the only US navy ship with and berths were in the main bulk, automobiles and liquid class cargo ship Lane Victory, a bath, which was specially channel and the north-west bulk cargoes. which is designated a US fitted for the President. The and north-east basins. In 1997 The port’s main channel National Historic Landmark, World Cruise Center and the a container terminal on Pier runs south to north, with at her permanent mooring at Catalina ferry berths are just 300 on Terminal Island was shipping passing through the the southernmost berth. A to the north of the battleship. completed, followed in 2004 breakwater entrance known preserved armed freighter, she by Pier 400, also on Terminal as Angel’s Gate, which has was launched in Los Angeles CONTAINER SHIPPING Island. At nearly 500 acres, Pier a 103-year-old lighthouse in 1945 and saw service at the Container traffic and boxboats 400 is the largest single-user on the western breakwater. end of World War II, in the dominate the port. In container terminal in the The main container terminals Korean War and in Vietnam. 1959 Matson Navigation’s world and is operated by APM are on Terminal Island, on Going from south to Hawaiian Merchant heralded Terminals, a division of Maersk. the eastern side of the main north along the channel is the start of containerisation The eight container terminals channel. Other container a fishing boat harbour and when it took its first shipment handle ships operated by all terminals and berths are in the leisure area Ports of Call, of containers. When the ships the major players, including the northern part, where with restaurants, bars, shops became too big to transit China Shipping, Yang Ming, the channel forks into west and slips for the harbour tour the Panama Canal to reach CMA-CGM, K-Line, Cosco, and east basins after passing boats. Continuing north is the US East Coast ports, the Hyundai, Hapag-Lloyd, under the Vincent Thomas the maritime museum and the solution was the creation of a OOCL, Evergreen and MSC. bridge. Until 1963, when the permanently berthed battleship ‘landbridge’ from Los Angeles In 2015 CMA CGM Ben bridge was completed, to get USS Iowa (BB 61), lead ship to all parts of the United States Franklin, of 18,000TEU to Terminal Island from San of a four-ship class. USS Iowa using cargo-carrying trucks capacity, became the largest Pedro, on the western side of carried President Roosevelt to and trains, and the port’s container ship to call at any

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Los Angeles_NL.indd 47 07/06/2017 09:27 The 75,246gt container ship Hatsu Sigma in the Port of Los Angeles Main Channel. The 7,024TEU vessel was launched in July 2005. PORT OF LOS ANGELES

North American port when she ships pass under the Vincent sail boats; pilot boats; harbour COAST GUARD visited Los Angeles. The port’s Thomas bridge. When Queen police patrol boats; fuel barges; The US Coast Guard Los Angeles/ container volume was 7.9 Mary 2 called at Los Angeles, bunkering ships; and fishing Long Beach Sector has its million TEUs in 2013, making she was too high to pass under boats heading out. Many of command offices on the east side it the 16th busiest container the bridge so she turned in the fishing boats are purse of the main channel on Terminal port in the world, and the 9th the basin at the port entrance seiners fishing for sardines, Island. From this base the Sector busiest when combined with and went up the main channel anchovies and mackerel. coordinates operations in an Port of Long Beach. stern first to berth alongside In 1892 the first cannery area extending more than 350 To accommodate large the World Cruise Center. in Los Angeles Harbour miles along the California coast container ships and cruise As in all major ports, was built. In 1903 a way and 200 miles offshore, which ships, the Main Channel was there are endless movements of preparing and canning includes the Port of Los Angeles. dredged to a depth of 45ft throughout the day. If not sardines, mackerel, tuna and Its responsibilities cover patrol in 1983 and to 53ft in 2013. large ships, then it is the albacore was developed. By boats, three multi-mission small There are also two turning small traffic: ferries going to 1920 there was a large fleet boat stations, a marine safety basins. The first is at the Catalina Island 20 miles to of purse seiners, gill netters detachment, the oversight of the entrance to the port, and the the south west; harbour tour and long-line fishing boats. port vessel traffic system (VTS), second is at the north end boats; tugs heading off for Los Angeles became the and an aids-to-navigation team. of the main channel, after their next job; leisure boats; largest fishing port in the US, Homeported in San Pedro is but after World War II the USCGC George Cobb (WLM 564, industry declined, as there pictured), a coastal buoy tender were diminishing stocks of responsible for 178 floating sardines and mackerel. Now aids to navigation along the there are few commercial California coast, including in the fishing boats left. Purse seiners approaches to the ports of San are recognisable by their rigs, Francisco, Los Angeles and Long with a power block high up Beach, and San Diego. on a boom and a skiff carried at the stern, used to control the net which encircles fish shoaling close to the surface. On the environmental front, the Port of Los Angeles offered an Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) to ships in 2004. Ships  Queen Mary 2 departing the Port of Los Angeles. PORT OF LOS ANGELES can plug into the system,

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 Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager class cruise ship Mariner of the Seas  Seven Seas Mariner alongside the World Cruise Center, located in the San (138,279gt) departing the World Cruise Center. Built in 2003, she can carry up Pedro District beneath the Vincent Thomas Bridge; it has three passenger ship to 4,252 passengers. PORT OF LOS ANGELES berths transporting over a million passengers annually.

closing down their generators 2016, making it the busiest and reducing particulate January in the port’s 110- matter being released. In year history. It was also the 2006, along with the adjacent second best month overall port of Long Beach, the port for the Port, eclipsed only by released the San Pedro Bay the 877,564TEUs handled Clean Air Action Plan. in November 2016, and the The Port of Los Angeles Port facilitated $274 billion in continues to break records trade during 2016. for cargo handled. In January it handled 826,640TEUs, an increase of 17.4 per  The preserved battleship USS Iowa cent compared to January at her permanent mooring.

The 53,096gt container ship MOL Encore berthing at the TraPac container terminal. PORT OF LOS ANGELES

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Los Angeles_NL.indd 49 07/06/2017 09:27  Berthed at the TEAM Terminal at the Port of Rotterdam’s 5e Petroleumhaven on the Calandkanaal at dusk on 4 December 2016 are oil tankers Cape Brindisi (81,076 gt) and Amazon Brilliance (43,075 gt). Both built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea in 2005, they are flagged in the Marshall MOSAIC Islands and Greece respectively.

Ships take on a real magic at night, and what can be a relatively ordinary picture in the day can be something special in low light, as John Robinson’s photos of ships in the Port of Rotterdam show. When photographing ships in these conditions, long exposures are inevitable, so the camera needs to be firmly supported. It is also best to remove any protective lens filter, since at night bright light sources, frequently present on ships and docksides, can be reflected by the filter onto the camera’s image sensor.

 Alongside at the Euro Tank Terminal (ETT) in the Port of Rotterdam’s 7e Petroleumhaven on the Calandkanaal at dawn on 4 December 2016 is Singapore-registered Oil/ Chemical Tanker Pico Basile (30,480gt), which was built in 2016 by Minaminippon Shipbuilding Co Ltd in Oita, Japan. Pico Basile, located on the island of Bioko, is the tallest mountain of Equatorial Guinea; the vessel subsequently sailed to Punta Europa in that country.

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 The vehicle carrier Höegh Trapper (75,717gt) is the fourth in a series of six post-Panamax vessels under the New Horizon design that Oslo-based Höegh Autoliners placed in service in 2016. Built by Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry, Xiamen, China, she has 14 decks which total 71,400m2 and have a carrying capacity of 8,500 car equivalent units, making her one of the world’s largest Pure Car and Truck Carriers (PCTC). On the evening of 4 December 2016 she has just left Rotterdam’s Brittanniehaven in Rozenburg bound for Tyne Dock, South Shields, and is pictured negotiating the Caland Bridge.

 The crude oil tanker Ashley Lady (62,201gt) at the Shell Europoort Terminal in Rotterdam’s 4e Petroleumhaven on the Calandkanaal at dusk on 4 December 2016. Built in 2010 by Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Tongyoung, South Korea, she subsequently sailed from Rotterdam to Ventspils, Latvia.

 Hoek Van Holland-flagged ro-ro/ passenger ship Stena Transporter (33,690 gt), built by Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries at Geoje, South Korea in 2011, berthed at her home port on 4 December 2016, before departing on her regular route to Killingholme on the River Humber. A huge cloud bank, with a remarkably straight base, dominates the sky.

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The MV Balmoral Fund Ltd is the registered charity which owns the Classic Coastal Ship MV Balmoral. Winter based and maintained in Bristol, but in summer travels all around the UK coast giving great day’s out with adifference. The challenge and complexities of keeping this near 68-year-old motor vessel in full working order and financiallyviable areendless.The small group of Trustees that manage and run this charity areseeking experienced enthusiastic people who mayliketojoin their board. Have youperhaps taken earlyretirement, do youhavetime on your hands, areyou looking fora challenge? Then look no further.Weneed volunteers with various business skills, experience and enthusiasm, especiallyinraising and developing our fund-raising profile. If youthink this maybefor you, then come and meet us informally. To discuss and establish what’s involved with no obligations on either side.Wecan offermanychallenges, but also good camaraderie and agreat sense of satisfaction keeping this beautiful ship “partofBritains Maritime Heritage” sailing now and long into the future. We look forwardtohearing from applicants throughout the UK. Applyinconfidence to, [email protected] orTe l07808 096 074 CARGO VESSELS FAMILY CONNECTIONS The Victoria Steamship Co had as one of its main clients Nikolaos Z. Michalos. Malcolm Cranfield explores the wider Michalos family’s shipowning operations.

 John Michalos passing Port Weller on 12 August 1978, bound for Duluth to load a cargo of grain for Basrah. DAVE KOHL/RENÉ BEAUCHAMP COLLECTION

ikolaos Z. Michalos family from 1924 Michalos was until reverting to Tachmindji one of the ownership in 1951. main clients Constantinos (1870-1951), of London known as Costas, President of shipbrokersN Victoria Steamship the Greek Shipowners Union Co Ltd (see SM, June). between 1938 and 1946, went He was part of a family of on to purchase two Liberty shipowners who had been in ships in 1947, and these were the shipping business since the named Costas Michalos and 19th century. The Michalos Leonidas Michalos. brothers Chios, Leonidas Following his death (1859-1926), Zannis and in 1951, the day-to-day Constantinos N. had started management of the business, trading in timber and other then owned by his wife Lily,  Costas Michalos at the Commissioners Buoys, North Shields on 23 June commodities, and began passed to the three sons of 1962. She was wrecked at Banc les Quenocs near Calais on 26 October 1962, investing in steamships before his brother Zannis: Nikolaos, inward bound from Archangel with a cargo of woodpulp. MALCOLM DONNELLY the outbreak of war in 1914. Antonis and Leonidas Z. Constantinos had married Michalos. The latter, whose The family then incorporated of the Liberty ship Pearl Lily Tachmindji, sister of John wife was Mary Livanos, soon the business as N. G. Livanos Island, a series of newbuildings A. Tachmindji, chairman joined the business of his Maritime Co SA in Piraeus were given names prefi xed of Michalinos Maritime & father-in-law Nikolaos G. and created Pearl Carriers Pearl, but only four of these Commercial Co Ltd, an old Livanos, in whose name the Limited as their representative new ships were allocated to established shipowner whose business was continued after managing offi ce in London. Pearl Carriers’ control. company was owned by the his death in 1968. Following the 1954 purchase Three of the ships managed

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Michalos_NL.indd 53 07/06/2017 09:29 for Michalinos from 1948, and the Liberty ship Nicolaos SHIPOWNING Michalos III in 1957. This FAMILIES ship had originally been purchased by Michalinos from VICTORIA STEAMSHIP Norwegian owners in 1953. • Founder Nicolaos Apodiakos The first Nicolaos Michalos, was a nephew of Leonidas, Zannis built in 1892, traded as such and Costas Michalos. from 1911 until she was seized • Victoria SS’s main client was by the French Government Nikolaos Z. Michalos, a son of in 1917. The second ship of Zannis Michalos. that name, built in 1913, was • Nikolaos Z. Michalos and his  K. Z. Michalos passing Verchères on the St Lawrence Seaway on 20 operated by Michalinos from brother Antonis had started in December 1984. MARC PICHÉ/RENÉ BEAUCHAMP COLLECTION 1932 until she was broken up shipowning in 1958, until 1980 at Savona in 1952. maintaining a separate fleet in After the sale for breaking addtion to that represented in of the 1925-built Lily Michalos London by Victoria Steamship. in 1959, another Liberty ship, • Their brother, Leonidas Z. named Lily C. Michalos, was Michalos, married Mary Livanos, purchased from Norwegian whose father was prominent owners in 1961. The two shipowner Nikolaos G.Livanos, Liberties continued to be giving rise to joint ship operations managed by Michalinos (i.e. between the two families. Tachmindji) until about 1964. At this point Lily MICHALOS FAMILY purchased from Michalinos • Costas Michalos (1870-1951) the 1954-built Georgidore, married Lily Tachmindji, sister which was named for her late of John A. Tachmindji, son of husband, Costas Michalos. Michalinos Tachmindji, who  Lily C. Michalos arriving at Durban in 1968. TREVOR JONES Lily’s two Liberty ships were became chairman of Michalinos scrapped between 1967 Maritime & Commercial Co Ltd. and 1969, the latter, Lily C. • Lily Michalos maintained Michalos, soon being replaced an independent shipowning by the 1957 St Nazaire-built business from 1955 until 1978, Lily M., the former Louis L. D. Michalinos being closely involved of Louis Dreyfus. in its management. In late 1972 Costas Michalos was transferred to Vrontados Cia Nav SA and given the traditional Michalinos name of Domina Zannis Michalos outbound from but, as the accompanying Rotterdam for Galveston on 14 photograph shows, continued to August 1976. DAVE SALISBURY be painted in Michalos colours. Purchased in late 1973, and  Costas Michalos arriving at Rotterdam in August 1967 to load for again placed under the nominal Constantza. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION ownership of Vrontados, was the 1962 Nantes-built bulk by Pearl Carriers were in fact seemingly ceasing to manage carrier Johns. Stove, the former given Michalos names: the that last ship in 1992, Brissac of Fred. Olsen, which 1970-built SD14 type John continued to exist until 2010, was named Kotsos M. Michalos, the 1974-built bulk latterly managed by Leonidas In May 1978 both Lily carrier Zannis Michalos and and Mary’s daughter, Lucy, M. and Kotsos M. arrived at the 1976-built bulk carrier K. and her husband André Leghorn (Livorno), where Z. Michalos. However, John Vandoros, from a family with the former was handed over Michalos was sold in 1987 Greco-Romanian roots. In to new Greek owners, and and the two bulk carriers, as addition, Captain Nicholas the latter continued trading with other ships in the Pearl Malpas was employed as for a few more months before Carriers-managed fleet, were Director from February 1995 being sold; this marked the given Livanos-related names. to April 2006. end of Lily’s involvement in Zannis Michalos, which shipowning. became Marylou II, was sold LILY MICHALOS in 1996 to Ilios Shipping, and In 1955 Lily purchased the NIKOLAOS Z. MICHALOS was also the last ship owned 1925-built Lily Michalos, a Nikolaos proceeded to create by N. G. Livanos Maritime. former Anglo-Indian ship the firm of N. Michalos & Pearl Carriers, although which had traded as Domina Sons Maritime Co Ltd in

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 Domina calling at Cape Town in June 1973 while on voyage from Maceio, Brazil to Saigon with a cargo of sugar. By January 1974 she had arrived at Kaohsiung for breaking. IAN SHIFFMAN

 Nicolaos Michalos III passing Portishead, inward bound for Avonmouth, on 10 March 1967. She proceeded to Swansea to load a cargo for Whampoa, where she arrived in May 1967 and was then broken up. AUTHOR’S PHOTO

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Michalos_NL.indd 55 07/06/2017 09:30 FUNNEL COLOURS Kotsos M. departing from Cape The funnel colours adopted by the Town in March 1978 bound for Michalos family were black, with Livorno. IAN SHIFFMAN a red letter M between a blue meandros pattern (in common with Livanos) on a white band. The Michalos ships managed by Livanos were painted with interlocking letters M and L.

1958, to purchase and operate the 1933-built former collier Francis Fladgate, which was given the old family name of Anthippi Michalos. The fl eet was expanded in 1960 with the purchase from Burnett SS of Newcastle of the 1943-built Burnhope, renamed Antonios Michalos, and by taking over from Michalinos Maritime & Commercial Co Ltd the Liberty ship Calliopi Michalos, which had been purchased in 1957 from other Greek owners. These were “NIKOLAOS CREATED THE FIRM OF supplemented in 1965 by the small 1946-built Uskside, N. MICHALOS & SONS MARITIME CO renamed Gero Michalos Transferred from Pearl LTD IN 1958 AND THE FLEET WAS EXPANDED IN 1960”

Lily M. discharging at Spillers Uveco Mill, Birkenhead, March 1971. PAUL BOOT

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 Leonidas Michalos seen at anchor off Apapa/Lagos on 4 January 1976 with a cargo of cement loaded at a Black Sea port six months earlier. She finally discharged in July 1976 and continued trading until sold early in 1980.  Anthippi Michalos in Bristol’s City Docks in September 1960. She was sold in Renamed Blessing Five by London-based Pakistan principals, she was broken 1962 to Gino Gardella of Genoa and traded on until 1971 as Brick Sesto. up in India in 1981. AUTHOR’S PHOTO

Carriers to N. Z. Michalos in she arrived at Suez on 22 1973 was the 1957-built Lucy, September and in March 1980 which was again given the left Port Sudan, under tow, name Leonidas Michalos, and for Taiwan to be broken up, in 1974 Leodamas, built in but ran aground on 26 March 1960 as Pearl Creek. 1980 and was eventually Renamed Zinovia in 1978, broken up at Gadani Beach, an old Michalinos name, the Pakistan after being beached former Leodamas ran aground there on 3 December 1980. near Suez on 24 August 1979 After the sale of the after springing a leak while 1957-built Leonidas Michalos on a voyage from Dunkirk early in 1980, Nikolaos to Port Sudan with a cargo Michalos focused on his main  Gero Michalos arriving at Rotterdam in about 1966. On 10 May 1968, while of sugar. Refl oated after fl eet, as described in the article loading a cargo of rice at Akyab, Burma, she broke her moorings during heavy jettisoning part of her cargo, on Victoria Steamship. weather and sank. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

 Leodamas at Cape Town towards the end of 1974 with her former name, Pearl Creek, still visible. Late in 1975 she loaded a cargo of cement for Apapa/ Lagos, finally berthing in March 1977. Laid up at Chalkis on 23 January 1978, she was reactivated at the end of 1978 and traded as Zinovia until the August 1979 incident described in the text. IAN SHIFFMAN -AUTHOR’S COLLECTION.

 Calliopi Michalos at Durban on 30 May 1966 after discharging a cargo of phosphate rock from Safi, Morocco. She loaded the same cargo at Dakar in June 1970 for Avonmouth, where she lay idle throughout a long dock strike. She reached Valencia for breaking on 19 October 1971. DAVID SHACKLETON/ AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

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Write to Ships Mail, Ships Monthly, Kelsey Publishing, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berrys Hill, Cudham, old dame of the sea although I might Kent TN16 3AG, or email [email protected]. Please note that letters via email must enclose just get to see her in her new guise sender’s full postal address. Contributions to Ships Monthly must be exclusive and must not before she goes. be sent to other publications. The editor reserves the right to edit material. Kelsey Publishing Robert Holmson reserves the right to reuse any submission sent in any format. Ammanford, Dyfed Swan Hellenic I was delighted to read of the survival of Swan Hellenic (SM, May), a company with which I came into contact in 1968 following its purchase by Trust House Forte, when Sir Charles Forte was looking to build Liverpool to Cork a larger holiday operation, and was considering the Hickie Borman Travel I was pleased to read (SM, June) that Group and Swan Hellenic. I reported a weekly container service between to Sir Charles that only Swan Hellenic Cork and Liverpool has been was profi table, so we kept Swan introduced. However, this is not the Hellenic and ditched the rest. fi rst time the two ports have been The 1921-built Kenmare was operated by City of Cork Steam Packet Duncan Haws connected directly, as there was a Co Ltd and was broken up in 1956. Gosport long-standing historical connection, lasting for nearly 150 years. after 1936 the City of Cork company was the motor ship Glanmire BP Tankers A service between the two ports continued to run the service. (1936/814gt), previously Burns & Being a former BP man, I enjoyed was started by the St George Steam After World War II the service Laird’s Lairdsbank, which served the recent article on the company Packet Co in 1825. Apart from was operated, between 1948 and until 1968. The service continued (SM, June). However, the ship that wartime interruptions, the service 1956, by Kenmare (1921/1,675gt). after her withdrawal for a few more exploded at Umm Said Qatar in 1966 ran continuously until 1968. It was When she was sold for breaking, months, using chartered ships, was British Crown, not British Light. transferred to the Cork Steamship her successor was Glengariff before being fi nally ended. Peter Sommerville Co in 1843, and in 1871 to the City (1936/1,599gt), previously Burns & The renewal of this historic link Greenock of Cork Steam Packet Company Laird’s Lairdscraig and originally between the two cities is to be Ltd. From 1936 the Cork company’s Clyde Shipping Co’s Rathlin, which welcomed greatly. Sadly, there Steam whistles ships were owned by the B+I Line, served until 1963. Both were seems no prospect of a revival of the I read with great interest the article part of the Coast Lines group until steamships and only carried a passenger service. about Waverley and Bristol Queen 1965, when both companies were limited number of passengers. Malcolm McRonald (SM, June). I have the steam whistle bought by the Irish Government, but The fi nal B+I vessel on the route Heswall, Wirral from the P&A Campbell steamer Cardiff Queen; it is an eight-inch that, after we left Tilbury, we sailed passengers suspected the crew were diameter chime and is very melodious. Marco Polo memories for Gibraltar, Casablanca, Senegal picked because of their loyalty to the With regard to Bristol Queen, I have I read with interest about the future and Togoland. We should have Communist party. For them this was a been trying to fi nd the steam whistle of the veteran liner Marco Polo (SM, docked in Ghana, but they would not prime posting and the whole trip was from this ship for some time. May). Like many readers, I am amazed let us in for some reason. Then we organised as a fl ag-waving venture for I believe a Mr A. R. Boucher, at how long this veteran has lasted. I called at Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra the Soviet Union. chairman of P&A Campbell, had remember her in 1977 as Alexander Leone, Senegal, Madeira and fi nally There was a joke on board that Bristol Queen’s steam whistle, but I Pushkin, under the old Soviet fl ag, Rotterdam to drop off mainly German docking at Tilbury was chosen as it have been looking for this whistle for operating under charter for the CTC tourists and a few Dutch tourists. was such an awful place no one would about 20 years. Does anyone know organisation. My family and I went Alexander Pushkin was a pleasant want to defect there. I apologise where it might be? I am happy to pay on a take-a-chance voyage, which ship with a friendly crew, most of to all residents of the area, but it a £200 reward to anyone who leads was just over four weeks on a pretty whom spoke good English, especially seemed true at the time because we me to the whereabouts of the whistle unique trip from Tilbury round the the restaurant and bar staff. While did wonder why would they not use from Bristol Queen. Please email bump of West Africa to Togoland. there was ample food, it was not up somewhere like Southampton. [email protected] if you have As it is now 40 years ago, I can to P&O standards, but should you It was a memorable voyage and information leading to its recovery. not remember the exact ports in the require anything the answer was took me to places I doubt I will ever Rowland Humble original itinerary. However, I do recall always ‘no problem’. All of us English visit again. So farewell to this grand Bodmin, Cornwall OLD FERRY STILL GOING STRONG JOHN LEYLAND, of Cleveleys, keep. Originally Prince Laurent sent this photo of Superferry II (4,986gt), she was built in 1974 coming astern onto her berth on for Regie voor Maritiem Transport the Island of Tinos on 20 April. He Belgie (RMT) and used on the wrote: ‘She looked immaculate Oostende-Dover service until and it was pleasing to see this being sold to Greek interests in grand old lady still earning her 1992 and moving to the Med.’

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Brexit shipbuilding Grand Saloon, ‘She raised steam only Hugh Muirhead, in his letter Brexit six times and used her engines for but Boxboats (SM, June), asks: who is 80 out of the 663 hours she was at to supply all the extra cargo ships sea.’ The fi rst true steamship to make needed to fulfi l orders resulting from a crossing of the Atlantic is generally the expected worldwide free trade accepted to be the Canadian-built agreements which Britain signs after Royal William, in 1833. exit from the EU? He might also Peter Dawes have asked about cruise ships since, Edmonton, Canada despite the number of British tourists now cruising, all new constructions St Helena/Scillonian III come from Italy, Germany and France. I was wondering what the latest is So, cannot the British Government regarding the two vessels, St Helena itself, once free from the competition and Scillonian III, which sadly are rules of the EU which prohibit some of the last vessels of their type state-subsidised industries, kickstart to be built in the UK. St Helena was Forth Bridge opening delayed shipbuilding in Britain? Development withdrawn from service about the of the once-proud yards in Belfast middle of last year and was put up for I would like to thank Duncan on the Forth – the departure of the and the Clyde would also help to sale. However, due to the ongoing Anderson for his kind words about aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth – cement the Union with Scotland. The fi asco at St Helena’s new £300 million Crossing the Forth (SM, June). I am has also slipped to this summer or car-making industry has undergone airport, she had to be brought back afraid the hoped-for opening was beyond. Duncan mentioned the a massive renewal here, so why can’t into service for an indefi nite period. delayed, with the current expected last deck section being lifted into shipbuilding follow? As far as Scillonian III is concerned, date now given as some time place on 3 February and I attach a Philip Mitchell it was rumoured that she was to be between mid-July and the end of photograph of the fi nal stage. Evesham withdrawn from service due to a August. Similarly, the completion Iain McGeachy combination of dwindling passenger of the other big construction event Edinburgh Atlantic steamship numbers and high running costs. A Regarding the photo caption for replacement design was drawn up, Savannah, which referenced the fi rst being a combined passenger and Ships identifi ed from steam to diesel and owned steamship to cross the Atlantic of that cargo arrangement. However, due With reference to the ships in Sri by Blue Funnel Cruises, who I later name (SM, May, article on FotoFlite), to its high cost and other limitations, Lanka in the 1940s (SM, June, p.61), went to work for. I witnessed many the original Savannah was essentially the entire project was shelved, so I the passenger ship is Orient SN’s other fi ne ships from the 1960s era, a sailing ship retrofi tted with a steam can only assume that Scillonian III will Orion, built by Vickers-Armstrong all sadly long gone, in a then packed engine, boilers, shaft and retractable soldier on for a few more years, along in 1935. She was requisitioned as a Southampton docks. Happy days! paddle wheels. with the cargo vessel Gry Maritha. troop transport in 1939, and ended Richard Jacob Accounts vary, but according to Alistair J. Burns her days being broken up in Belgium Southampton John Malcolm Brinnan in Sway of the Dundee in 1963. The other photo depicted the escort aircraft carrier, with pennant number D03, HMS Ranee. She was built by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding as USS Niantic (CVE-46), but was transferred to the Royal Navy on a lend-lease basis as Ranee in 1943. She was returned to the US Navy in November 1946, becoming the merchant vessel Friesland, later being renamed Pacifi c Breeze. A. J. Smythe Rayleigh, Essex Happy memories Caledonian Sky was not evacuated in Indonesia I was interested in the FotoFlight at Regarding the grounding of our concerned that an incident such as Furthermore, we are working with 70 article (SM, May). As a schoolboy, I vessel Caledonian Sky in Indonesia this occurred, and we deeply regret the Indonesian Government and can recall playing hooky from school (SM, June), you state that passengers any damage caused to the reef local groups to agree a realistic to witness RMS Queen Mary leave the were evacuated. At no time during and subsequent impact on local assessment of compensation due. dockside and sail off to her retirement the incident were passengers or communities (which we have been In the meantime, the grounding home, with no recriminations from crew in any danger, and the vessel proud to work with for many years), is still under full investigation the teacher for my absence, as, in his was not evacuated. The vessel I am keen to confi rm that the vessel by the relevant authorities, an words, ‘history was being made’. was refl oated on the next high tide was not evacuated. investigation which Noble Caledonia The photo of the ship travelling and after a detailed inspection by Noble Caledonia has and its technical managers are co- down Southampton water shows a local authorities was released and established a fund to assist with operating with fully. small pleasure craft escorting the continued on passage. reef regeneration and to assist Mike Deegan, Head of Fleet mighty liner. She was one of a number While we are extremely local communities impacted. Operations, Noble Caledonia of ex-Gosport ferries, converted

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Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT BELFAST 17-8 (LE) tbc/tbc Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 21 (RO) 0900/1700 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 2 1000/2000 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 23 (RO) 0700/2359 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 4 0800/1700 Albatros Phoenix Reisen 28,518 25 (LE) tbc/1600 Star Pride Windstar Cruises 9,975 6 0800/1800 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 26 (LE) 0600/1700 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 9 0800/2000 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 31 (LE) 0900/1700 Braemar Fred. Olsen Cruises 24,344 9 1100/2000 Artania Phoenix Reisen 44,656 31 (NH) 0800/1800 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 10 0700/2100 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 11 0415/2230 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 FALMOUTH 13 1230/1900 Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 11 0900/2000 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 13 0800/1800 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 FISHGUARD 18 0700/1800 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 18 0800/1930 Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 19 0800/1800 Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 25 0415/2300 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 FORT WILLIAM 26 0800/2200 Silver Whisper Silversea Cruises 28,258 18 0700/1800 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 26 1000/1900 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 FOWEY CORK/COBH 12 0700/1700 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 2 0700/1800 Sirena 30,277 23 0800/1700 Silver Whipser Silversea Cruises 28,258 7 0700/1700 Albatros Phoenix Reisen 28,518 GALWAY 8 0800/1900 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 30 tbc/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 11 0600/1600 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 20 0800/1900 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 GREENOCK (GLASGOW) 24 0700/1800 Silver Whisper Silversea Cruises 28,258 1 0900/1700 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 27 0700/1800 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 6 0700/1700 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 28 0800/1600 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 7 0800/2200 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 30 0800/1800 MSC Preziosa MSC Cruises 139,072 9 1300/2200 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 10 0700/1900 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 DOVER 21 0900/1930 Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 4 0800/1600 Saga Pearl II Saga Cruises 18,627 26 0700/1900 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 10 0600/1730 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 28 0800/1800 MSC Preziosa MSC Cruises 139,072 12 0800/1600 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 13 0600/0930 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 HOLYHEAD 16 0800/2100 AIDAavita Aida Cruises 42,289 2 0700/1800 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 17 0800/1600 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 10 0700/1800 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 20 0800/1600 Saga Pearl II Saga Cruises 18,627 12 0700/1800 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 22 0800/2000 AIDAsol Aida Cruises 71,304 27 0600/1900 Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 24 0800/1600 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 INVERGORDON 29 0800/1600 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 4 tbc/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 30 0800/2100 AIDAavita Aida Cruises 42,289 5 0800/1800 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 DUBLIN 8 0900/2000 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 1 0800/1800 Sirena Oceania Cruises 30,277 10 0800/1700 Koningsdam Holland America Line 99,836 3 0800/1800 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 13 0700/1800 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 7 0200/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 16 0700/1800 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 9 0800/2300 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 16 1100/1900 Europa 2 Hapag Lloyd 42,830 10 tbc/tbc Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 18 tbc/tbc Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112 11 0530/tbc Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 22 0800/1800 Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 11 0800/1800 Artania Phoenix Reisen 44,656 23 0800/1930 Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 13 0500/tbc Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 23 0800/1900 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 15 0600/1700 Star Legend Windstar Cruises 9,961 26 0800/1800 MSC Preziosa MSC Cruises 139,072 17 0400/2200 Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 27 0900/2100 Star Pride Windstar Cruises 9,975 19 0800/2000 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 27 0900/1800 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 20 0900/1900 AIDAavita Aida Cruises 42,289 30 0800/1700 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 23 tbc/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 ISLE OF MAN (DOUGLAS) 23 0900/2100 Rotterdam Holland America Line 61,849 4 0700/1800 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 25 0800/2300 Silver Whisper Silversea Cruises 28,258 23 1130/1900 Gann 6,257 27 0800/2300 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 25 0800/1600 Rotterdam Holland America Line 61,849 27 0700/1730 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 ISLES OF SCILLY (Tresco) 28 0630/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 29 0800/1500 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 29 0800/1800 MSC Preziosa MSC Cruises 139,072 DUNDEE KILLYBEGS 29 tbc/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 4-5 1315/0100 (5) Magellan Cruise & Maritime Voyages 46,052 11 0415/1615 Magellan Cruise & Maritime Voyages 46,052 KIRKWALL 25 0345/1630 Magellan Cruise & Maritime Voyages 46,052 2 0700/1500 Magellan Cruise & Maritime Voyages 46,052 28 0800/1900 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 2 0800/1400 Albatros Phoenix Reisen 28,518 DUN LAOGHAIRE 3 0800/1900 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 3 1400/2000 Hamburg Phoenix-Reisen 15,067 15 0600/1700 Star Legend Windstar Cruises 9,961 4 1000/1800 AIDAcara Aida Cruises 38,557 EDINBURGH (South Queens Ferry – SQ) Leith (LE) Newhaven (NH) Rosyth (RO) 5 1100/1900 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 1 0000/2100 Azamara Journey Azamara Cruises 30,277 6 0800/1800 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 4 (NH) 0800/1900 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 7 1200/1800 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 5-7 (RO) 1030/0500 (7) Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 9 0800/1830 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 6 (LE) tbc/tbc Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 13 0700/1500 Star Legend Windstar Cruises 9,961 8 (NH) 1000/2359 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 15 1400/2000 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 8-9 (SQ) 0800/1700 (9) Koningsdam Holland America Line 99,836 15 1100/1900 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 9 (LE) tbc/tbc Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 16 0500/1300 Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 14-5 (SQ) 0900/1800 (15) Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 17 0800/1800 Europa 2 Hapag Lloyd 42,830 14 (RO) 0900/1700 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 19-20 0600/0530 (20) Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 14-5 (RO) 0700/2030 Europa 2 Hapag Lloyd 42,830 20 0700/1700 Astor Charter 20,704

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Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT 21 0900/1700 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 4 0630/1630 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017 22 0800/1800 MSC Preziosa MSC Cruises 139,072 4 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 148,528 23 0700/1700 Star Pride Windstar Cruises 9,975 5 0530/1630 Navigator of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 139,570 23-24 1630/1200 (24) N G Orion Noble Caledonia 3,984 5 0630/1630 Braemar Fred. Olsen Cruises 24,344 25 1000/1800 AIDAcara Aida Cruises 38,557 5 0630/1630 Britannia P&O Cruises 143,000 26 1100/1900 AIDAluna Aida Cruises 69,203 6 0700/1630 Arcadia P&O Cruises 83,781 28 0800/1800 Gann 6,257 7 0930/2130 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 28 0900/1600 Star Pride Windstar Cruises 9,975 9 0630/1630 Aurora P&O Cruises 76,152 29 1100/1900 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 9 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 30 0630/2400 N G Orion Noble Caledonia 3,984 9 0800/1700 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 LERWICK 11 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 11 0630/1630 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017 1 0800/1900 Magellan Cruise & Maritime Voyages 46,052 11 0630/1630 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 3 1300/2100 AIDAcara AIDA Cruises 38,557 12 0530/1630 Independence of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 154,407 14 0800/1700 Seven Seas Explorer Regent Cruises 42,363 12 0630/1630 Azura P&O Cruises 115,055 15 1230/1900 Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 12 0630/1630 Britannia P&O Cruises 143,000 17 0700/1800 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 12 0700/1600 Crown Princess Princess Cruises 113,561 18 0800/1400 Europa 2 Hapag Lloyd 42,830 13 0530/1630 Celebrity Eclipse Celebrity Cruises 112,878 18 0700/2000 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 13 0600/1800 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 22 0600/1900 Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 13 0630/1630 Braemar Fred. Olsen Cruises 24,344 23 0900/1700 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 14 0930/2130 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 24 1300/2100 AIDAcara AIDA Cruises 38,557 15 0630/1630 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017 25 0800/1500 Astoria Rivages du Monde 16,144 15 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 26 0800/1800 Vision of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 78,717 19 0530/1630 Navigator of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 139,570 29 0700/1300 N G Orion Noble Caledonia 3,984 19 0530/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 148,528 31 0800/1600 Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 19 0630/1630 Azura P&O Cruises 115,055 LIVERPOOL 19 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 5 0700/1700 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 19 0800/1700 Norwegian Jade Norwegian Cruise Line 93,558 8 0800/1900 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 20 0530/1630 Independence of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 154,407 14 0900/1700 Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 20 0630/1730 Braemar Fred. Olsen Cruises 24,344 17 0700/1800 Celebrity Silhouette Celebrity Cruises 122,210 20 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 18 0800/2100 Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 20 0700/1630 Arcadia P&O Cruises 83,781 19 0900/2200 Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 20 0630/1630 Aurora P&O Cruises 76,152 24 0800/2300 Rotterdam Holland America Line 61,849 21 0630/1630 Azura P&O Cruises 115,055 28 0900/1700 Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 21 0930/2130 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 29 0900/1700 Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 22 0800/1800 Silver Whisper Silversea Cruises 28,258 LONDON – GREENWICH SHIP TIER (GST)/TOWER BRIDGE UPPER (TBU) 25 0530/1630 Navigator of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruises 139,570 9 (GST) tbc/tbc Albatros Phoenix Reisen 28,518 25 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 13 (TBU) tbc/tbc Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 25 0630/1630 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 26 0700/1600 Crown Princess Princess Cruises 113,561 OBAN 26 0530/1630 Celebrity Eclipse Celebrity Cruises 121,878 3 1000/2000 Albatros Phoenix Reisen 28,518 26 0630/1630 Britannia P&O Cruises 143,000 8 0800/1800 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 27 0630/1630 Aurora P&O Cruises 76,152 20 tbc/tbc Crystal Symphony Crystal Cruises 51,044 28 0630/1630 Azura P&O Cruises 115,055 26 tbc/tbc Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112 28 0930/2130 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 30 tbc/tbc Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112 29 0630/1630 Braemar Fred. Olsen Cruises 24,344 PORTLAND 29 0700/2000 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 10 0600/1900 Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 99,526 31 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 148,528 12 0700/1800 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 31 0600/1830 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 12 1000/2000 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 ST HELIER (Jersey) PORTSMOUTH 4 0830/1630 Silver Explorer Silversea 6,130 13 0700/1900 Artania Phoenix Reisen 44,656 6 1200/1800 Europa 2 Hapag Lloyd 42,830 31 0600/1900 Hebridean Sky Private Charter 4,200 28 1300/1900 Astoria Rivages du Monde 16,144 PORT OF TYNE (Newcastle) ST PETER PORT (Guernsey) 3 0800/2100 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 10 0800/1800 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017 6 0900/1700 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 10 0700/1700 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 7 0700/1700 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 12 0800/1800 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017 12 0600/1600 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 13 0800/1800 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 14 0900/1700 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 20 0800/1700 Azura P&O Cruises 115,055 14-15 1300/0800 (15) Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 21 0700/1900 Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 76,998 23 0900/1700 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 24 0800/1700 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 25 0600/1900 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 30 0700/1700 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 28 0900/1700 Balmoral Fred. Olsen Cruises 43,537 30 1430/1900 Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 28-29 1300/0800 (29) Aidavita Aida Cruises 42,289 ULLAPOOL 29 0600/1600 Thomson Celebration Thomson Cruises 33,933 8 0800/1700 Ocean Majesty Majestic Int Cruises 10,714 PORTREE 19 1000/1830 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 1 1000/1700 Zuiderdam Holland America Line 82,820 22 0900/1800 Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112 2 tbc/tbc Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840 22 0400/1000 Gann 6,257 19 0700/1800 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 WATERFORD 25 0700/1230 Berlin FTI Cruises Gmbh 9,570 29 tbc/tbc Hebridean Sky Noble Caledonia 4,200 26 1000/2000 Rotterdam Holland America Line 61,849 SHIPS WITH MORE THAN ONE CALL ROUND UK AND IRELAND 29 0900/2100 Star Pride Windstar Cruises 9,975 ADONIA 30,277gt: 3 St Peter Port, 4 Southampton, 18 Southampton, 19 St Peter Port, 21 SCRABSTER Dublin, 22 Cork/Cobh, 25 Southampton 21 tbc/tbc Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112 AEGEAN ODYSSEY 12,094gt: 1 Cork/Cobh, 2 Dublin, 4 Cardiff, 6 St Helier, 8 Tilbury, 10 SOUTHAMPTON Edinburgh (RO), 11 Kirkwall, 20 Lerwick CARIBBEAN PRINCESS 1 0600/1800 Marina Riviera Cruises 66,084 112,894: 1 Invergordon, 2 Edinburgh (SQ), 5 Southampton, 6 St Peter

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Port, 7 Cork/Cobh, 8 Dublin, 9 Liverpool, 10 Belfast, 11 Greenock, 13 Invergordon, 14 Edinburgh Dover, 30 Dublin, 31 Oban (SQ), 17 Southampton, 18 St Peter Port, 19 Cork/Cobh, 20 Dublin, 22 Belfast, 23-24 Greenock, PRINSENDAM 39,051gt: 2-3 Edinburgh, 6 Edinburgh (RO), 7 Invergordon, 8 Scrabster, 10 25 Invergordon, 26 Edinburgh (SQ), 29 Southampton, 30 St Peter Port, 31 Cork/Cobh Dublin, 11 Belfast, 12 Liverpool, 13 Milford Haven, 14 Isles of Scilly (Tresco), 15 Portland, 16 St COLUMBUS 63,786gt: 4 Tilbury, 11 Tilbury, 25 Tilbury, 25 Tilbury, 30 Kirkwall Peter Port, 20 Lerwick CORINTHIAN 4,077gt: 1 Holyhead, 2 Fishguard, 4 Poole, 6 Fishguard, 7 Holyhead, 9 Belfast, SEABOURN QUEST 32,477gt: 3 Dover, 5-6 Edinburgh (LE), 7 Invergordon, 8 Kirkwall, 9 12 Kirkwall, 13 Aberdeen, 14 Edinburgh (LE), 15 Aberdeen, 16 Kirkwall, 19 Belfast, 21 Ullapool, 10 Oban, 11 Londonderry, 13 Isle of Man, 14 Dublin, 15 Holyhead, 16 Waterford, 17 Holyhead, 22 Fishguard, 24 Poole, 26 Fishguard, 27 Holyhead, 29 Belfast Isles of Scilly, 19 Dover, 20 Portland, 22 Fishguard, 23 Belfast, 24 Tobermory, 25 Stornoway CRYSTAL SYMPHONY 51,044gt: 5-7 Edinburgh (RO), 10 Tilbury, 11 St Peter Port, 15 St Peter SERENISSIMA 2,598gt: 18 Lerwick, 19 Kirkwall, 20 Aberdeen, 21 Lerwick, 23 Kirkwall, 31 Port, 16 Waterford, 17 Dublin, 18 Liverpool, 19 Belfast, 20 Oban, 22 Invergordon, 25-26 Portsmouth Tilbury, 28 St Peter Port SILVER WIND 17,235gt: 2 Falmouth, 3 Cork/Cobh, 4 Dublin, 5 Holyhead, 6 Belfast, 7 IOM MARCO POLO 22,080gt: 1 Edinburgh (RO), 15 Edinburgh (RO), 16 Kirkwall, 18 Portree, 19 (Douglas), 8 Greenock, 18 Lerwick, 19 Kirkwall, 20 Dundee, 21 Edinburgh (LE), 24-25 London (TBU) Greenock, 20 Liverpool, 21 Dublin, 22 Cork/Cobh, 24 St Peter Port, 27 Edinburgh (LE), 28 VARIETY VOYAGER: 2 Kirkwall, 3 Aberdeen, 4 Edinburgh (LE), 5 Aberdeen, 6 Kirkwall, 10 Kirkwall, 30 Tobermory, 31 Belfast Dublin, 11 Holyhead, 12 Fishguard, 14 Poole, 16 Fishguard, 17 Holyhead, 18 Dublin, 22 NAUTICA 30,277gt: 1 Belfast, 2 Dublin, 4 Southampton Kirkwall, 23 Aberdeen, 24 Edinburgh (LE), 25 Aberdeen, 26 Kirkwall, 30 Dublin, 31 Holyhead PACIFIC PRINCESS 30,277gt: 1 Scrabster, 12 Dover, 13 St Helier, 14 Waterford, 15 Dublin, 17- NOTES This information is given in good faith, and neither the authors nor Ships Monthly can be held 18 Edinburgh (RO), 20 Dover, 21 St Helier, 23 Dublin, 24 Londonderry, 26 Edinburgh (RO), 28 responsible for any changes to ship arrivals or departures. MYSTERY SHIP This month’s mystery photo shows some kind of passenger vessel, possibly a ferry, with the lettering Asa-Thor on her hull, amidships. But was that her name? When was she built and for which company was she operated? Where and when was the photo taken? Where did she operate and what was her fate? And what is the shore behind her?

Send your answers, including a postal address, by email to [email protected], or by post to Mystery Ship, Ships Monthly, Kelsey Media, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berrys Hill, Cudham, Kent TN16 3AG. Emails preferred. JUNE’S MYSTERY The photograph shows part of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, probably some time between 1916 and 1918. The ship taking centre 7 stage (1) is a Queen Elizabeth class 5 6 2 3 4 battleship. Careful examination of the stern of the ship shows the name to have six characters, which makes her either HMS Barham or HMS Malaya. I can just make out the third and fourth characters as ‘R’ and ‘H’, which would 1 make her HMS Barham. This ship built by John Brown at Clydebank, commissioned on 19 October 1915 and was torpedoed and sunk on 25 November 1941 off Alexandria. The only a small section of the funnel be a King George V class vessel (4). exactly which one as it so far off, and ship is at anchor with her White Ensign top visible on each ship, which was a This would be King George V (1911) somewhat difficult to make out. flying off the mainmast. characteristic of the class. herself, HMS Ajax (1913) or HMS In the far distance. immediately The battleships seen above the On the extreme right (6), the Centurion (1911). A fourth ship in the behind the aft funnel of HMS Barham, forecastle, above B turret and Y battleship with the two vertical funnels class, HMS Audacious, was lost before there appears to be an Iron Duke turret of this QE class ship (2, 3 and mounted close together is HMS Erin, this photograph was taken. class battleship (7). This would be 5), appear to be members of the the only battleship in the Royal Navy In the distance, behind the King HMS Iron Duke, HMS Benbow or Orion class; this class consisted of with funnels mounted that close George V battleship, is a Royal HMS Marlborough. A structure HMS Orion, HMS Monarch, HMS together. She was built in 1914 and Sovereign class battleship (4), one of attached to the centre of the aft Conqueror and HMS Thunderer. was taken over while building for five members of the class: HMS Royal funnel of this ship was a characteristic The three ships each have their fore Turkey. Sovereign, HMS Royal Oak, HMS of the Iron Duke class. funnel mounted between the forward The battleship directly behind Revenge, HMS Resolution or HMS Henryk Jarzebek of Porthcawl; facing legs of the tripod mast, with HMS Barham’s mainmast appears to Ramillies. It is not possible to identify and A. J. Smyth of Rayleigh, Essex

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Lifelong shipping enthusiast, maritime author and Ships Monthly reader Captain Hilmar Snorrason talks to Matt Davies on board former AA ie ie  car ferry Sæbjörg. Sæbjörg and originally involved HAVE YOU SUCCEEDED WHAT IS THE FUTURE the previous Sæbjörg, the former IN IMPROVING SAFETY? FOR SÆBJÖRG? coastguard vessel Þór. The Icelandic shipping industry She was built in 1974 and has not is now the safest that it has ever sailed since 2014, as repairs are WHAT DOES YOUR ROLE been, but every life lost is one needed to her ballast tanks and INVOLVE? too many. We educate crews in steelwork. We plan to undertake hehe BidgBidgThe majority of my time is spent all aspects of safety and have an essential dry-docking in 2017, overseeing the training of college seen huge improvements; risk but it is unlikely we will do the students, shipping crews and assessment processes have been work to allow her to sail again. I ICESAR’s 1,800 volunteers who implemented; accidents are hope that, when the Westman man our fl eet of Arun lifeboats. reported and fully investigated Islands ferry Herjólfur is replaced As master of Sæbjörg I am also so that lessons are learned; and in 2018, the Icelandic government responsible for the safe navigation a complete change in behaviour will look upon us again favourably and operation of the vessel, which and culture has taken place. as they did in 1998, as Herjólfur is crewed by our instructors. is the same age as Akraborg was WHAT WAS IT LIKE when we got her. HOW DID YOU WHAT IS THE SHIP BEFORE SAFETY WAS PROGRESS TO MASTER? USED FOR? IMPROVED? HOW DO YOU SPEND I joined the merchant navy in The vessel is a training ship, with The training centre was YOUR FREE TIME? 1972 when I was 15 as a trainee classrooms and areas for practical established in 1985, following too I love my job, and shipping is like on an Icelandic Coastguard exercises, including fi re-fi ghting, many losses of lives in Iceland’s a lifestyle. I enjoy photographing vessel. From there I worked on a abandon-ship drills and sea fi shing and merchant fl eet. On ships and writing about them, passenger ship, a coastal tanker rescue. The vehicle deck is used average four vessels were lost and have published several books and different general cargo for the storage of life rafts, fast each year, and 2008 was the fi rst about Icelandic shipping. Away ships. I joined Icelandic State rescue boats and other safety year that a fatal accident did not from ships and the sea I enjoy shipping in 1979 and worked on and survival equipment. Until occur. We have achieved the same spending time with my family and general cargo and ro-ro vessels 2014 we took Sæbjörg round in 2011 and again in 2014, and it is relaxing in my hot tub. as deck offi cer. I moved to pallet Iceland most summers, visiting my goal for such an achievement carriers, mostly circumnavigating 12 ports to ensure our safety to become the norm. For me, Iceland, serving 38 ports of call education reaches locally based success is zero fatalities and every week, and in 1984, at the fi shing crews. Using a ship allows accidents and nothing else. age of 27, I became a captain. In us to get to people who would 1991 I took up my present role as not otherwise travel the long Principal of the training centre, distances across the country to which includes command of attend our courses.

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