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Cruise news Record day on the Tyne SHIP OF
THE MONTH
Regulars 14 Naval
Germanys endurance frigate, new fleet tanker
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CARNIVAL
MIRACLE
for New Zealand, Type 26 design row brewing,
Trident submarine renewal approved, and
NOVEMBER 2016
Diligence up for sale. Gary Davies
FIRE ON BP TANKER
NOSTALGIA 1966 tragedy of British Crown remembered
16 Cargo
First neo-Panamax comes to Tilbury, Maersk
MARITIME HERITAGE
PRESERVED IN to upgrade E class boxboats, dredging at

STOCKHOLM
What to see in
Swedens capital
Teignmouth, new berths in use at Hull, and
Bocimar to expand fleet.
6 Waterfront
Plans to rebuild United States dropped, Hapag-
Lloyd and UASC to merge, another new car
MODERN WARSHIPS REVIEW OF NAVIES
ROUND THE WORLD carrier, fire hits ro-pax in the Caribbean, and
paddler steamer White Swans 160th year.
NOVEMBER 2016 Vol 51
10 Ferry
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Nov 2016 OFC_mh.indd 1 07/09/2016 20:24 Protest over Northlink fares, Islay services badly
COVER The 1964-built tanker British Beech was
disrupted, call for larger Dunoon vessels, and
similar to the 1952-built British Crown, which
buyers for Hurtigruten.Russell Plummer
was tragically destroyed by fire in 1966, as
described on pages 28-31. (FotoFlite)
53 Ships pictorial
12 Cruise A variety of ships pictured from around the
ALSO AVAILABLE world, including on the Thames, departing
Baltic port of Kiel booming with cruise calls,
DIGITALLY Antwerp, in Kirkwall, Orkney, and the Norwegian
Tyne cruise callers, another ship to Cuba, and a
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refit for Pacific Dawn. William Mayes
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The Port of Tyne had its busiest 24 hours ever on 16
August, handling five passenger ships. Making her
maiden call was Holland America Lines Koningsdam
(2016/99,836gt). The Pinnacle class cruise ship is the
largest ever cruise ship to visit the Port of Tyne. See
page 12 for more details. MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHIC
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Features 44 Once were Kings

The notable ships and personalities associated
36 Ship of the Month
20 World Navies in 2016 with King Line, a significant and successful CARNIVAL MIRACLE
A look at some of the new warship classes that tramping company. Roy Fenton
have recently been delivered. Conrad Waters
48 Ferries to the Faroes
A look at the passenger ships that have served
the Faroe Islands and Iceland, which have also
called at a variety of UK ports. Kalle Id
A look on board the Spirit class cruise ship
Carnival Miracle, her interior designs and the
56 Three little liners guest experience. Peter Knego
The careers of the Thames excursion ships
Queen of the Channel, Royal Daffodil and Royal
Sovereign, operated by the GSNC. David Toy Chartroom
26 Maritime Mosaic 60 Ships mail
Ships visiting the port of Galway on the west A selection of letters from readers.
coast of Ireland. Brian McGrath
62 Mystery ship
28 Fire on British Crown Can you identify this months mystery ship?
Remembering the tragic accident that befell the
tanker British Crown in 1966. Graham Wallace 62 Ports of call
Cruise ship calls around the UK in November.
38 Jewel of the Baltic 66 View from the Bridge Andrew and Donna Cooke
Stockholm is a shiplovers delight, being home to Senior Master of Stena Germanica, Captain ke
many historic vessels, a preserved 17th-century Adolffson, has a unique viewpoint of the worlds 63 Ships library
warship, and steamers in action. Nick Hall only ship which uses methanol. John Pagni Reviews and details of new maritime books.
NOVEMBER 2016 Volume 51 No.11

WATErFrONT
Low-emission United States in her
hybrid e-tug
heyday and (inset) as
she is now.
NEW TUg
Offshore Ship Designers, based
in IJmuiden, The Netherlands,
has introduced its latest Azistern
tug, which incorporates a hybrid
propulsion system consisting of
two 970kW variable speed gensets
and two 400kWh lithium battery
packs, with the batteries allowing
transient sailingsto be made with
zero emissions while also boosting
bollard pull on demand. The 22m tug
combines a low-resistance stable hull
and all-round visibility with a podded
drive system to give a highly flexible
harbour tug that meets the latest
environmental requirements. JS Plans for United States dropped
Conservancy had announced an stationary mixed-use development
CLASSIC LINEr exclusive option agreement, with the and museum in New York or an urban
Crystal Cruises have abandoned plans goal of converting the iconic vessel waterfront setting. The SS United
to rebuild and reintroduce the former for luxury cruising. A comprehensive States Conservancy remains deeply
transatlantic liner United States, which feasibility study and evaluation costing committed to saving this unique
has been laid up in Philadelphia for more than US$1 million was convened and powerful symbol of the nations
the past 20 years. While the 1952-built with a world-class team of engineers, strength, history, and innovation.
vessel is structurally sound, Crystal say headed by retired US Coast Guard Rear During her maiden voyage in July
technical and commercial challenges Admiral Tim Sullivan and other experts. 1952, United States sailed from the
associated with a return to service Susan Gibbs, executive director of Ambrose Lightship off New York to
ABOEV The Azistern tug developed as a modern cruise ship have proved the SS United States Conservancy, Bishops Rock Light in three days, ten
by Offshore Ship Designers features a insurmountable. said: Americas Flagship continues hours and 40 minutes at an average
hybrid propulsion system. OSD Crystal and the SS United States to hold enormous potential as a speed of 35.59 knots . RP
Libertad visits Liverpool

The new Fleetwood lifeboat leads Lytham and Barrow lifeboats as
she arrives at her station for the first time in June. NICHOLAS LEACH
The vessel carried a message of

TALL SHIPS peace, friendship and the will to build
On 23 July the Argentinian steel- bridges in the year of the Bicentenary
hulled, full-rigged, class A sailing ship of the Argentine Declaration of
Libertad and her crew were welcomed Independence. Crewed by 27
to the Liverpool Cruise Terminal. She officers, 192 non-commissioned
was on a training voyage, and her officers and 132 training officers, she
arrival at Liverpool her first visit there set sail on 23 April, and has called at
since 1992 marked the halfway point Brazilian, US, Dutch and French ports.
on her latest voyage, which involved After her call at Liverpool, Libertad
spending 133 days at sea and 63 days went to Dublin, and then headed for
at ports in ten different countries. southern Europe.
Fleetwood lifeboat upgrade

were on hand to salute the new
NEW LIFEBOAT lifeboat as she arrived in the river
A large crowd gathered at Fleetwood Wyre, and she was escorted to her
on 26 June to welcome the new 2.2 new home by lifeboats from Blackpool,
million state-of the-art Shannon class Lytham and Barrow, as well as the 47ft
lifeboat Kenneth James Pierpoint, Tyne lifeboat she was replacing, William
which arrived in the afternoon Street. At the helm of the new boat
following a five-day passage from the was proud Coxswain Gary Randles.
RNLI Headquarters in Poole, Dorset, Following a period of intensive
during which the Fleetwood volunteer training, Kenneth James Pierpoint
crew had the chance to familiarise was declared operational. The new
themselves with the new vessel. lifeboat has been funded from the
The Band and Drum Corps of the legacy of Miss Kathleen Pierpoint from
ABOVE The tall ship Libertad berthed in the Mersey in July. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire) Altrincham, in memory of her brother.
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hapag-lloyd and UAsc to merge BrieF NeWs
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CONDORFERRIES The Channel
Islands ferry operator has
appointed Keith Gait to the
newly created role of Customer
Service Experience Director. He
will be responsible for managing
Condors Customer Services
and Customer Care teams,
overseeing 30 employees in
Poole, Portsmouth, St Helier
and St Peter Port. He plans to
travel aboard one of Condors
fleet of four ferries at least
once a week to meet customers
and garner feedback. RP
HIStORIClIFEbOatFORCHaRtER
The former Dun Laoghaire
The 199,714dwt Barzan, completed last year by South
lifeboat John F. Kennedy, built in
Koreas Hyundai Samho, is one of a number of UASC
Lowestoft in 1966, has recently
ships that will be joining the Hapag-Lloyd fleet. UASC
moved from the Tyne, where
she has operated in private
vessels that have been built to be that will include Hanjin, K-Line, Mitsui hands since being sold out of
iNDUsTrY NeWs convertible to LNG fuel usage. OSK Lines, NYK Lines and Yang Ming, service in 1996, to Eastbourne,
Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping In addition, the company is taking which is scheduled to begin operations continuing as a charter boat
Company (UASC) have signed a Business delivery of a series of 11 15,000TEU by April 2017. UASC is owned by six under new owners. For details
Combination Agreement (BCA) to ships that will give the Hapag Lloyd Arab sovereign wealth funds, with see www.baycharters.co.uk.
merge both companies in a move fleet an average age of 6.6 years. The Qatar having a controlling 51 per cent
that will result in a fleet of 237 ships, merger is expected to be completed stake, Saudi Arabia 36 percent and the NEwSHIpSbOOStCalaIS A
including UASCs six new 18,800TEU before Hapag-Lloyd joins a new alliance remainder shared. JS 63 per cent increase in freight
volumes on the Dover-Dunkirk
Another new car carrier Veteran on

and Dover-Calais routes in
the second quarter of 2016
the move
helped DFDS register a positive
than Heghs current vessels, enabling financial performance for the
Vehicle cArriers cargo up to 6.5m high and 12m wide to first half of the year following
On 25 May the fourth vessel in Hegh be loaded. Extra ramp strength allows the introduction of new ships
Autoliners New Horizon series of heavier cargoes to be loaded.
iNDONesiA Cte des Dunes and Cte des
vehicle carriers was named Hegh The New Horizon series are designed Star Fighter, one of two survivors of a Flandres. Up to 54 daily sailings
Trapper at a naming ceremony at to be energy efficient, with attention four-ship late-1970s ro-ro freighter series are offered on the two routes
Xiamen Shipbuilding Industries in paid to optimising hull form to built for Townsend Thoresens English to France, and they achieved
China, with Mrs Hanne Siri Dahl, wife of combine high cargo capacity with low Channel routes by Schichau Unterweser record freight volumes in
Sebjrn Dahl, CHRO Hegh Autoliners, fuel consumption. Special focus has at Bremerhaven, has changed hands March, carrying more than
christening the vessel. been paid to hull resistance in heavy on private terms between recent 110,000 vehicles for the first
Hegh Trapper is the fourth in a series seas and wind resistance, so that the Cypriot owners Kosilio Shipping of time. DFDS English Channel
of six post-Panamax vessels Hegh New Horizon vessels emit 50 per cent Limassol and Indonesian interests. freight director Wayne Bullen
Autoliners will take delivery of this less CO2 per car transported than Carrying up to 46 trailers, the said: Our new Dover-Calais
year. With deck space of 71,400m2 and standard car carriers. Hegh Trappers 8,097gt vessel, originally European ships allow us to offer higher
carrying capacity of 8,500 car-equivalent maiden voyage from East Asia to Enterprise and later renamed frequency and more choice for
units, she is one of the worlds largest Europe was undertaken in June, and European Endeavour, worked for customers. DFDS celebrates
Pure Car and Truck Carriers (PCTC). she will sail from Europe back to East Townsend Thoresen and then P&O the 150th anniversary of its
She also has a higher door opening Asia via Africa and Oceania. Ferries until her sale for TransEuropa formation in December; it will
Ferries Ostend-Ramsgate route as be marked by a special two-part
Gardenia from 2007 to 2013 before feature in Ships Monthly. RP
moving to the Eastern Mediterranean.
Sistership European Clearway (1976) pORtlaNDFIlMING During
ran for TEF as Begonia with Baltic July scenes for a new film
service and spent time in the Med. She about Dunkirk starring Tom
still sails as Via Mare between Cyprus Hardy were shot in Weymouth
and Turkey for Akgunier Line. European Harbour, with the trip boat My
Gateway (1975) was rebuilt as a Girl chartered as a backdrop,
passenger/car ferry for GT Link service with ships brought from Holland
as Travemnde Link and later Rostock and all over the UK, Including
Link before ending her days in Greek the Lowestoft sailing trawler
waters sailing for Agoudimos Lines Excelsior, Dutch minesweeper
The new vehicle carrier Hegh Trapper arriving at the Port of as Penelope A. She was broken up at Sittard and the tug Kingston.
Tyne from Rotterdam on 1 August. KEN SHORT Aliaga, Turkey during 2013. RP

WATERFRONT news
Lakers to Fire hits ro-pax in the Caribbean
the breakers
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GREAT LAKES
A declining market for limestone,
coal and ore, a flood of new ships and
advancing age is sending a flurry of
Great Lakes bulk carriers to the breakers
this year, including Algoma Centrals
Peter R. Cresswell, built in 1982 as
Algowest and being demolished in
Turkey as Peter. Two other Algoma
Central units have also been sent to
Turkey for demolition: the 1968-built
Algomarine and the similarly aged
British-built Algoma Navigator. Prior
to the demolition of these vessels, the
54-year-old Algoma Montrealais had
arrived in Turkey for breaking. JS eventually ran aground just west of ABOVE The 27,362gt ferry Caribbean
FERRY FIRE San Juan harbour. The US Coast Guard, Fantasy suffered a fire in the Caribbean
The susceptibility of ro-ro ferries to fire which sent its cutters USCGC Joseph between the Dominican Republic and
was again demonstrated in mid-August, Tezanos and USCGC Donald Horsley to Puerto Rico on 17 August. USCG
when the 27,362gt Caribbean Fantasy the scene, reported that the fire had
suffered a blaze off the Caribbean started in the ships engine room and She was then sold to Mexican operator
island of Puerto Rico that forced all 511 rapidly spread to other compartments. Baja Ferries in 2007 for employment
passengers and crew to abandon ship. Operated by America Cruise Ferries, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico as
Picked up by other vessels, most were the 187m by 28m ferry was built by Chihuahua Star. The ship became the
transported to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Japans Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in sole operating unit of Baja Ferries
ABOVE Built in 1982, the 30,735dwt where several were treated for heat 1989 as Higashi Nippon Ferrys Victory subsidiary, America Cruise Ferries, in
Peter R. Cresswell is one of many older stroke, shock and dehydration. and operated in the Mediterranean 2011, when renamed Caribbean Fantasy
Great Lakes ships going to the breakers. The ship herself began drifting and under that name for a number of years. for Caribbean employment. JS
Historic Russian frigate White Swans 160th year

lakes western shore at Gjovik, the
NORWEGIAN LAKES 230-passenger vessel alternates from
History was made on Norways Lake Monday to Saturday between trips to
Mjosa in August when the paddle Hamar and Lillehammer or a southern
steamer Skibladner sailed into a 161st circuit via Hamar to Eidsvoll, with
year since she was introduced after special sailings or charters on Sundays
completion at the Motala Shipyard through September into early October.
in Sweden in August 1856. She was Lake Mjosa freezes over in winter
lengthened and fitted with a more and, while laid-up in 1937 and 1967,
powerful triple diagonal engine in Skibladner sank under the weight of
1888. There was originally a daily round ice and snow. The ships restaurant was
trip from Eidsvoll at the southern end magnificently restored in the winter
of the lake to Lillehammer in the north. of 1993-94, and work has gone on to
Skibladners short season from make other areas as close as possible
mid-June to mid-August has long to their 1856 or 1888 appearance. She
been tourist-oriented. Based on the has been oil-fired since 1921. RP
ABOVE The replica frigate Shtandart at Leith in August. IAIN MCGEACHy
The fine sight of Skibladner in service
modern crew consists of 30 trainees on Norways Lake Mjosa.
TALL SHIPS and ten officers. The 1999 replica is
On 22 August Shtandart (pictured), a designed for speeds between eight
replica frigate which was the first ship and nine knots under sail, and up to
of Russias Baltic fleet, visited Leith 15 knots under auxiliary engines.
accompanied by two modern frigates SNMG1, consisting of the Spanish
from the Standing NATO Maritime frigate ESPS Mndez Nez and
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BRIEF NEWS
TALLSHIPSTRIP DFDS quickly
sold out a special day cruise
from North Shields to give
passengers a view of the Parade
of Sail as the 2016 Tall Ships
Race left the port of Blyth
on 29 August. The four-hour
programme was covered by
Princess Seaways (1986/31,356gt),
with fares including lunch and
onboard entertainment. The
ferry returned to the Tyne in
mid-afternoon to commence
loading at Royal Quays for
the scheduled departure to
IJmuiden, Holland. Protest over Northlink fares
SERVICESTOPS Starlight Transport Minister Humza Yousaf to cut fares on ferry services to the
Ferries trial cross-Solent link
NORTHERN ISLES began a three-day tour saying he was Northern Isles and we continue to work
ended on 12 August, due to Ferry fares to and from Orkney and committed to following through with towards that goal.
low passenger numbers. Early Shetland for services operated on the Scottish National Partys election Services direct to Lerwick from
morning and late evening behalf of the Scottish Government pledge to reduce prices on the routes. Aberdeen, with others via Kirkwall,
sailings between Yarmouth, Isle by Serco Northlink Ferries are to be The Liberal Democrats have accused Orkney, are handled by 11,720gt 2002-
of Wight and Lymington started frozen through 2017 for the second the SNP of going back on their built sisters Hjaltland and Hrossey and
in May using former RNLI year in succession, but there is pre-election promise, but Mr Yousaf with space for 600 passengers and 150
lifeboat Mersey Rose, with the disappointment in the islands that said: We want these vital services cars, while Hamnavoe (2002/8,780gt),
service due to run to October. reductions in west coast Scottish fares to continue to be accessible and carrying 600 passengers and 95 cars,
Starlight Ferries was set up by a through the Road Equivalent Tariff are affordable, so keeping ticket prices on covers the Stromness-Scrabster route.
group of island residents after not being matched. hold next year will help achieve that. Northlink also have ro-ro freighters
receiving more than 6,000 in The announcement came as We have made a key commitment Hildasay and Helliar on charter.
donations, some of which will
Call for larger Dunoon vessels

be returned.
SKYLARKIX A two-year
restoration has started at the (pictured) with support from the 20m for Transport Humza Yousaf said: We
Scottish Maritime Museum
FIRTH OF CLYDE Ali Cat, which can carry 249 passengers, have specified that bidders will have to
in Irvine of the 1934-built The Scottish Government is insisting on although in recent winters car ferry provide vessels of 40m in length. This
passenger launch which took larger vessels for the Gourock-Dunoon Coruisk (2003/1,599gt) has been will help address the current issue of
part in the Dunkirk Evacuation Clyde crossing when it awards a new brought in to help. Scotlands Minister reliability on the service.
in 1940. First operated from 12-year contract for the subsidised
Bournemouth by J. Bolson & passenger route starting in June
Sons and licensed to carry 115 2017. Tender documents specify that
passengers, she saw service at 40m ferries will have to be provided,
Brighton after World War II and with the successful bidder also being
then moved to Loch Lomond. encouraged to offer an unsubsidised
More recently Skylark IX sank in service for vehicles.
the river Leven at Balloch. Current operator Argyll Ferries uses
the 29.9m/244-passenger Argyll Flyer
FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN T
CATRIONA Caledonian MacBraynes LERIF The veteran ferry, originally THECAT Bay Ferries report
latest hybrid diesel/electric car Sealinks Galloway Princess growing passenger and car
ferry left the Ferguson Shipyard in (1980/12,711gt), long laid up after numbers on the revived Portland,
mid-July for sea trials on the Firth the failure of Moroccan company Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
of Clyde. The 10 million vessel IMTC, has been towed to Malaga, ferry route, which was run in 2014
sailed the Skelmorlie measured Spain for repairs after a reported and 2015 by Nova Star Ferries
mile before ramp and loading sale for the equivalent of 832,000 but failed despite receiving
MNPELICAN The 1999-built con- trials at Largs, during which she to a company named as World CAN$40 million in subsidies. The
ro ferry, chartered by Brittany took on board a 14.5m tri-axle bus Detroit Shipping. 886-passenger/282-car Austal Auto
Ferries from Maritime Nantaise, and a loaded a 44-ton lorry. The Express catamaran, previously
is seen turning off the berth at sistership to Hallaig and Lochinvar named Puerto Rico and chartered
Poole. Since February she has was due for further trials in August from the US Navy, makes daily five-
made two trips a week between before commencing service on hours-each-way sailings as The Cat.
Poole and Bilbao, with capacity the Cal Mac route from Claonaig, She leaves Yarmouth each morning,
for over 100 trailers. KEVIN MITCHELL Kintyre, to Lochranza, Arran. with an afternoon return crossing.

news
Potential
Islay services buyers for
badly disrupted Hurtigruten
ABOVE Hebridean Isles
COASTAL EXPRESS
at Kennacraig after British private equity firm TDR Capital,
suffering bow damage which acquired Norways Coastal
when striking a quay. Express operation Hurtigruten during
MAINPIC Isle of Arran the autumn of 2014, is reported to be
heading for Islay. talking to three potential buyers after
receiving unsolicited offers.
Hurtigruten was valued at US$884
million when TDR took a 90 per
cent interest, while two existing
shareholders each retained a five
per cent stake. Since then TDR
550-passenger/84-car Finlaggan late June into July standing in for has provided funds to acquire and
WESTERN ISLES (2011/5,626gt). To ease congestion Isle of Lewis (1995/6,735gt) between refit new vessel Spitsbergen, and
Summer problems continued for during one of the routes busiest Ullapool and Stornoway. upgraded four existing ships from the
Caledonian MacBrayne, who had to periods, Cal Mac brought in Troon- The biggest vessel in the current Norwegian coastal service.
send Islay ferry Hebridean Isles to based timber carrier Red Princess, Cal Mac fleet suffered bow damage TDR has also ordered two
the Garvel Dock at Greenock after which has no passenger certificate, while she was being moved by tugs newbuildings for delivery in 2018 and
the 550-passenger/84-car vessel but was able to carry up to 20 cars. from the Cammell Laird yard at 2019, with options for two more, all
suffered bow visor and hull damage Isle of Arran (1984/3,296gt) also Birkenhead following a refit that had developed by Rolls-Royce with the
when making contact with a quay at came off the Arran service to provide already been extended when major assistance of ship designer Espen Oino,
the mainland terminal of Kennacraig. additional capacity from Kennacraig engine problems occurred. Clansman and to be built in Norway by the Kleven
After Hebridean Isles reached between 9 and 11 August, during the (1998/5,499gt) first deputised on the yard at Ulstenvik.
the Clyde on 25 July, a one- Islay Show period. Hebridean Isles Lewis link, but had to be replaced by Earlier, TDR partner Jon Roen said
ship service to Port Ellen and also returned on 11 August, having Hebridean Isles due to a pre-booked Hurtigruten was profitable when
Port Askaig continued with the already been off the route from dry-docking and refit at Aberdeen. acquired and had been made more
so following changes to capacity
management and onboard spending
Extra capacity for UN Ro-Ro

by passengers. A Coastal Express vessel
leaves Bergen every afternoon, with a
daily lunchtime return departure from
would be accomplished in four years. Actera, is also planning to order two Kirkenes and with more than 30 calls
TURKEY The UN fleet, which has developed new ro-ro vessels, together with the made in either direction.
Leading Turkish operator UN Ro-Ro is two intensive services between Anbarli, purchase of shore terminals.
launching a 96 million programme to Istanbul and Pendik to the Italian port
lengthen eight of its 11 current vessels of Trieste, includes nine vessels built
to increase fleet capacity overall by in Germany by FSG at Flensburg, some
17 per cent. An agreement with the of which were acquired second-
Tuzla shipyard was announced by UN hand from northern European
chief executive Sedat Gumusoglu, who operators, while FSG built UN Istanbul
said lengthening of the first two ships (2013/31,540gt) to UNs own order.
would be completed in the opening UN Ro Ro changed hands two years ABOVE UN Istanbul, delivered in 2013,
half of 2018, and the whole operation ago, and the new owner, Main Holding is UN Ro-Ros most modern vessel.
THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .
PINADELRIO Spanish operator ALMUDAINADOS The 1997-built TASMANIANACHIEVER Australian
Balearia started services using Pina Fincantieri monohull fast craft has operator Toll Shippings overnight
Del Rio from Almeria and Motril to joined the fiercely competitive Bass Strait service between
Melilla on 5 August, which were Gibraltar Strait link from Almeria to Burnie and Melbourne is to
expected to run until at least the Melilla. Originally Superseacat One, receive a pair of 12,000dwt ro-ro
mid-September. The 1992-built first of a Hoverspeed quartet from, vessels from Chinas Jinling Yard.
74m Incat catamaran, carrying 520 she ran Newhaven-Dieppe, Dover- They will replace the 20,342gt
REDJET5 Displaced from Red passengers and 92 cars, first ran Ostend and Liverpool-Douglas and sisters Tasmanian Achiever and
Funnels fast Red Jet service as Patricia Olivia in South America, joined Trasmediterranea in 2006. Victoria Reliance, which came
between Southampton and West with Baltic service in the late 1990s, from Samsung, Japan in 1999 and
Cowes by the new Red Jet 6, before taking her present name in were both lengthened by 32m in
the 186-seat craft, built in 1999, 2011, when she was used between 2004 to double capacity before
has been sold to Italian regional Port Everglades and the Bahamas. further life-extension work in
operator Toremar and left Four Caterpillar diesels power 2004. There was a management
Southampton in July. R. PLUMMER water jets for a speed of 35 knots. buy-out of the Toll Group in 1986.

CRUISE William Mayes
Port of Tynes record day of cruising
midday on Monday and sailed at 0800 ABOVE Koningsdam with AidaVita BELOW CMVs Astor (1987/20,704gt)
CRUISE NEWS on Tuesday morning, making space andSeven Seas Voyager, three of the arrives on the Tyne. She had made
The Port of Tyne had its busiest for Transoceans Astor, which arrived four cruise ships which came to the the short hop from Harwich and was
day for cruise callers on Tuesday at noon. The other two ships, both of Tyne on 16 August. DAVID FRASER bound for Rosyth. KEN SHORT
16 August, with four cruise ships which arrived in the early morning,
visiting to enable their passengers to were Holland Americas newest vessel,
sample the north-east of England. Koningsdam, and Regent Seven Seas
An estimated 5,500 people passed Seven Seas Voyager (2003/46,363gt).
through the Passenger Terminal The 197.2m Koningsdam, at
during the day. The Port has seen an 99,836gt, became the largest cruise
increasing number of cruise ships ship to visit the port as she made
calling in recent years, with 43 calls her maiden call. On departure she
booked this year, and no fewer than headed for the anchorage at South
57 expected during 2017. Queensferry, giving passengers
AIDAvita, making Aida Cruises access to Edinburgh, while AIDAvita
first call at the port, arrived around was bound for Dover.
Magellan was described by the Clacton Gazette as a giant cruise ship

following an incident on the Thames. WILLIAM MAYES Another power failure
were carried out, and in the good
PRINCESS CRUISES weather conditions there was never
While sailing from Cobh to Dublin as any concern that the ship might go
part of a 12-day British Isles cruise, the aground, although the Holyhead
112,894gt Caribbean Princess suffered Coastguard despatched a tug to the
an engine failure on 3 August, off the scene in case of any change.
Wicklow coast. The ship had 3,306 As a result of the incident,
passengers and 1,158 crew on board at CaribbeanPrincess call at Dublin
the time of the incident, which lasted was cancelled, and she proceeded
for about nine hours. to Belfast,where she arrived early
Unlike some other incidents on 4 August. The problem was later
Major collision? No!

in recent years, full power was diagnosed as stemming from a failure
maintained for all passenger services in the electrical switchboard which
while an assessment and repairs operates the diesel generators.
leaving her berth at the London
CMV Cruise Terminal at Tilbury on 4 August
A number of newspaper reports blew and a strong gust of wind caused
what appears to have been a minor her to scrape along the side of the
incident out of all proportion with Tilbury to Gravesend ferry, which
headlines such as Giant cruise ship berths just outside the limits of the
nearly sinks Tilbury passenger ferry. cruise terminal, but on the same
The giant cruise ship in question landing stage. The ferry service was
was CMVs relatively small 46,052gt suspended for safety checks, but was
Magellan (ex-Holiday, Grand Holiday) soon back in operation with a largely
although it might appear to be a undamaged ship, and Magellan sailed
giant ship if you are on a small boat as scheduled on her cruise. She has
and it is bearing down on you. been operated on cruises out of
The circumstances of the incident London Tilbury, Newcastle upon Tyne
appear to be that Magellan was and Dundee since 2015.
ABOVE Engine failures are now being reported more frequently. WILLIAM MAYES

Refit for Another one to Cuba BRIEF NEWS
Pacific Dawn LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS
Washington State with Southwest CARNIVAL The sister to Carnival
Alaska, largely through the islands Vista, due for delivery by
P&O AUSTRALIA Lindblad Expeditions will have an of British Columbia. The National Fincantieri in March 2018, will
Pacific Dawn has been the Brisbane- interesting year in 2017, with the Geographic Endeavour II, formerly the be named Carnival Horizon. She
based ship of P&O Cruises Australia introduction of the first newbuild in the Chilean-operated Via Australis, will will have a gross tonnage of
since 2009. Her last big refit took place companys history. The ship, which will take over from National Geographic approximately 133,500.
in 2010 and now it is time for another be named National Geographic Quest, is Endeavour in the Galapagos Islands.
one. The ship will be dry-docked at currently under construction by Nichols The venture to Cuba will feature the CRUCEROSAUSTRALIS Late,
the Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard Brothers Boat Builders at Freeland, near chartered Panorama II, a 44-passenger but for the record, in January
in Singapore from about 18 February Seattle, and is one of a pair of ships, sail-assisted vessel which is owned Cruceros Australis ordered a
2017 for a two-week makeover. the second of which will be delivered by Variety Cruises of Greece and was replacement for Via Australis,
The additional features will include in 2018. This duo will carry 100 launched in 2004. She is currently sold recently to Lindblad, from
a children-only waterpark, complete passengers on a wide range of mainly sailing Cuba itineraries for her owner, ASENAV in Chile. The ship will
with two waterslides. The self-service coastal and inland waterway cruises. but from December 2016 until March have a gross tonnage of about
Plantations will become The Pantry, Quests inaugural cruise is scheduled 2017 will undertake Lindblads people- 4,500 and will carry around 200
with a rather more diverse range of to be a 13-night voyage featuring the to-people programme, comprising passengers. She will be named
options from nine outlets, including a Inside Passage, the route that links 11-day cruises from Havana. Ventus Australis.
Mediterranean counter. On the main
public room deck all of the bars will CELEBRITY Celebrity Cruises
be given a dcor more in keeping with will sail year-round Caribbean
that of the recently introduced Pacific itineraries with Celebrity
Aria and Pacific Eden. Pacific Dawn and Equinox from April 2017.
Pacific Aria, between them, will offer Previously the ship has spent
108 cruises from Brisbane next year. summers in Europe. She will be
based in Miami and will offer 24
Eastern and Western Caribbean
departures.
COSTA Costa Cruises will

base 1,300-lower berth Costa
ABOVE Panorama II neoClassica in Mumbai from
sailing from Havana.
ABOVE Pacific Dawn will get a big December 2016 to March 2017,
WILLIAM MAYES
makeover in 2017. WILLIAM MAYES offering a range of cruises to
Goa, Cochin, the Maldives and
Colombo. Cuisine on board
will be a mix of Italian and
Baltic port booming Costa Pacifica

and Mein Schiff
traditional Indian.
with cruise calls

4 together in TUI Mein Schiff 5 was named
Kiel. WILLIAM MAYES in Travemnde on 15 July
by the German singer Lena
Meyer-Landrut. TUI Cruises have
said that in 2015 the company
reduced fuel consumption on
its other ships by 14.1 per cent
per passenger day, largely as
a result of slower sailing and
more efficient itineraries.
HOLLANDAMERICA The first

steel for Holland Americas
Nieuw Statendam was cut at
Fincantieris Palermo shipyard
on 12 July. The ship is due for
delivery in November 2018.
According to the ports records, By 2007 port calls had grown to 100
PORT OF KIEL the first cruise ship visit was that by in that year alone, with MSC and Aida MSC The second Seaside class
The Port of Kiel, located on Germanys Hapag-Lloyds Europa on 23 June ships regular visitors. ship will be named MSC Seaview
Baltic coast just inland from the 1974. She made a second call later that Today, Kiel is an important port for when delivered in June 2018.
entrance to the Nord-Ostsee Kanal, year, and Norwegian America Lines both Aida and TUI Cruises, each of The lead ship, MSC Seaside, is
celebrated its 2,500th cruise call on Vistafjord also made two calls in 1974. which has named ships in the harbour, due for delivery in December
13 August, when Cunards Queen Calls built up gradually, with most of but at present MSC holds the record 2017 and will be based in Miami.
Elizabeth arrived. It was a busy day them in the early years made by ships for the largest number of calls, with MSC will move MSC Splendida
for the ports cruise berths, with operating for German companies. In 327. In 2015 the ports four cruise to China in 2018. It is not certain
MSC Musica, AIDAluna and AIDAvita the late 1980s Festival Cruises based berths handled 133 cruise calls by 25 if she will replace MSC Lirica,
preceding her into the harbour. a ship in Kiel, as did Costa from 2002. different ships. which is already there.

NAVAL Gary Davies
Kiwis go large with

The RNZNs new fleet
tanker is to be built by
Hyundai Heavy Industries
new fleet tanker

in the Republic of Korea.
NZ DEFENCE FORCE
vessel when she enters service in Endeavours replacement will Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
NEW ZEALAND 2020. Designed to refuel two ships at also be able to operate helicopters, This specific capability was selected
The New Zealand government has a time while under way, produce and including hangar facilities for any one in order to allow it to deliver fuel
approved the acquisition of a newbuild store fresh water, and transport bulk of the NZ Defence Forces helicopter andstores in support of Scott Base
fleet tanker for the Royal New Zealand goods, the new platform will provide a types, which include the NH90, and McMurdo Station during the
Navy (RNZN). The as yet unnamed step change in capability over HMNZS SH-2G Seasprite and A109. The hull Austral summer months, although
ship is to cost NZ$493 million and Endeavour, which will be 30 years old is to be ice-strengthened and the theroute would still need to be
will become the navys largest ever when she is retired in 2018. vessel winterised for operations in cleared byan icebreaker.
Trident renewal approved Services not required

follow on from the four boats of the
ROYAL NAVY Vanguard class that have maintained Diligence is one of two
The Royal Navy is to continue the CASD since 1992. The cost of the ships taken up from trade
providing Britains Continuous At Sea platforms is officially estimated at (STUFT) retained by the
Deterrent (CASD) after the House of 31 billion, with a further 10 billion RFA after the Falklands
Commons voted to renew the UKs set aside as a contingency. The War. MARITIME PHOTOGRAPHIC
Trident programme. The approval Trident missiles themselves, which
by 472 votes to 117 provides the are built in the USA, do not require
go-ahead for the construction replacement until the 2040s.
of four new submarines to carry Work on the assessment
the Trident missile system and its phase of the programme has been
nuclear warheads. Only one of 59 underway for some time with
MPs from Scotland, where all the almost 4 billion being spent on
RNs submarines are based, voted in design work, long-lead items, and
favour of the renewal. investment in new construction and
The so-called Successor class will maintenance facilities.
service date officially listed as 2020, her

RFA demise without a direct replacement
The Royal Fleet Auxiliarys forward is likely due to the building of a new
repair ship, RFA Diligence, is being permanent forward operating base for
offered for sale by the Disposal the Royal Navy in Bahrain.
Services Authority. According to the The former North Sea oil rig support
information provided for potential ship was chartered as Stena Inspector
buyers, the ship was withdrawn from by the British government to support
operational service in May 2015. naval activities during the 1982
This was shortly after she received a Falklands War, and was subsequently
multi-million pound refit, after which purchased outright and converted into
The Successor class she was laid up at Birkenhead. As such, a specialist fleet maintenance vessel
will enter service from the 35-year old ship remains in good providing engineering support for
the 2030s. BAE SYSTEMS overall condition, albeit not in running both ships and submarines that were
order. Despite a projected out-of- away from their home ports.

news
Germanys FGS Baden-Wrttemberg is the BRIEF NEWS
largest frigate in the world.
USNAVY The lead vessel
endurance
BUNDESWEHR/CARSTEN VENNEMANN
of the US$100 billion Ohio
Replacement Program, formally
frigate
known as SSBN(X), is to be
named USS Columbia. It will
be the first time a naval vessel
has been named after the
US capital. The current USS
Columbia, a Los Angeles class
attack submarine, and eight
previous ships are named for
other cities in various states,
while previous vessels named
USS Washington have honoured
the first President or the State
of Washington.
SPANISHNAVY The Spanish

MOD has approved design
changes to the overweight
first-of-class S 80 submarine
Isaac Peral (S 81) after a Critical
Design Review. The diesel-
ahead of commissioning in mid-2017. extends to the ships weapon systems, electric boats design length
GERMAN NAVY The F125s are designed to remain which can all be remotely controlled. has been extended from 71m to
The first of a new type of innovative deployed for up to two years at a To lessen the requirement for 80m to overcome weight and
frigate has been handed over to the time to maximise operational time maintenance, they are the first German buoyancy issues, without which
German Navy. The F125 class FGS on task and to reduce port visits and warships equipped with a Combined it was calculated that the vessel
Baden-Wrttemberg (F222) arrived transit times. Two 120-strong crews, Diesel-eLectric And Gas (CODLAG) would not have been able to
at Wilhelmshaven naval base on 18 Alpha and Bravo, are to be rotated on propulsion system, with electric motors resurface again once dived. The
July, from where she will undergo a four-monthly basis. There is a high powered by smaller diesel generators error has been an expensive
equipment trials and crew training degree of automation throughout that rather than large diesel engines. embarrassment for the state-
owned shipbuilder Navantia.
Ambush Type 26 row brewing INDIANNAVY India is set

to acquire three Admiral
collision
Meanwhile, the ongoing delay in Grigorovich class (Project
ROYAL NAVY actually ordering the new frigates is 11356M) frigates intended for
The UK Ministry of Defence has developing into a full-scale row between the Russian Navys Black Sea
awarded a contract to BAE Systems for the Westminster government and the Fleet. The ships are similar to
ROYAL NAVY three Maritime Indirect Fires System Scottish Parliament after the MODs the Indian Talwar class. For the
HMS Ambush has returned to the (MIFS) Integrated Gunnery Systems chief executive for equipment admitted deal to go ahead, India would
UK for repairs after sustaining (IGS) for the Royal Navy to be fitted to a Defence Select Committee that also need to reach agreement
external damage to her bow fin to Type 26 frigates and one trainer he did not know when the go-ahead to with Ukraine for the supply of
from a glancing collision with a system. The MIFS IGS includes the build the ships would be given. engines, something that Russia
merchant vessel as she surfaced 5-inch 62-calibre Mk.45 Mod 4 Naval The explanation given is that the has been unable to do, hence
near Gibraltar. The Astute class Gun System, along with an automated detailed design is still only 60 per cent their sale. The hulls could be
attack submarine was exercising in ammunition handling system, gun complete, while it is claimed that a moved from the Baltic to India
Gibraltars territorial waters inside fire control system, and qualified shortage of money is the real reason for completion.
the Mediterranean when she hit ammunition. The 183 million contract for the lack of progress, which could
the tanker. The ship reported no includes an option for five additional have repercussions for thousands of BANGLADESHICG The Coast
damage and there were no injuries systems for other ships of the class. jobs on the Clyde. Guard has taken delivery
on either vessel. of its first of pair of former
With the Royal Navys use of Italian Navy corvettes from
Gibraltar, and in particular the Fincantieri. The Minerva class
basing of nuclear vessels there, vessels were handed over
a source of intense friction with at the Muggiano shipyard in
Spain, the British MOD was quick Italy on 4 August. They have
to offer reassurance that there been renamed Syed Nazrul
was absolutely no damage to the (ex-Minerva) and Tajuddin
submarines nuclear plant. The (ex-Sibilla). The others, Urania
incident, which was almost certainly and Danaide, are scheduled to
due to human error, is nonetheless be handed over next year. The
a great embarrassment given Bangladeshis plan to operate
the claims about the vessels the refitted ships as Offshore
advancedsensors. ABOVE Construction of the Type 26 frigates is on course to begin at least two years Patrol Vessels for 20 years.
later than planned. BAE SYSTEMS

CaRGO
New berths The 110,039dwt MSC Sofia Celeste
soon in use arriving at Tilbury.
PORT NEWS
At the end of July the newly-built
berths at the Green Port Hull
development on Alexandra Dock, Hull
welcomed their first vessels, with
Stema Shippings Bulknes and Beltnes
delivering 400,000 tonnes of crushed
stone from Norway. Three berths have
been built by Associated British Ports
to accommodate wind installation
vessels visiting the Siemens facility.
The new quayside measures 620m and
offers a continuous berthing face.
Bringing the stone by sea removed
First neo-Panamax comes to Tilbury

20,000 truck deliveries from the
local road network. The stone was
discharged to the new berths at a rate
of 3,000 tonnes per hour. RC 8,800Teu and is the first in a new class MSC into LCT comes as a direct result
CONTaINER ShIPS of vessels deployed on a reconfigured of the opening of the Panama Canal
London Container Terminal in Tilbury, service connecting the West Coast of expansion in June; this allows larger
along with the Port of London South America, east Coast of North vessels to transit the waterway.
Authority (PLA), welcomed the America and Northwest europe. The This new service, with the canal
inaugural call of MSCs neo-Panamax vessel is the first to call into the uK after accommodating larger vessels,
vessel to the Thames on 16 August having transited the new Panama Canal. directly links the uS and South America
following her transit of the newly LCT is the uKs largest reefer with europe. MSC Sofia Celeste was
enlarged Panama Canal. container terminal and one of the completed in 2014 and has an on-
aBOVE The self-discharging bulk carrier The MSC-operated vessel, Sofia most efficient uK ports for handling board capacity of 8,819Teu, of which
Beltnes at the new Green Port Hull berth. Celeste (95,497gt), has a capacity of over containers. This new service from 1,462 can be used with reefer units.
Ethane-burning carriers
heavy fuel oil (HFO), due to its more
NEWBUILD competitive pricing as well as the
Japans Mitsui engineering & significantly shorter bunkering time
Shipbuilding has completed the it entails and its lower emissions
first of three ethane-burning profile. MAN Diesel & Turbo has
Mitsui-MAN B&W 7G50Me-C9.5- verified that the engines can also be
GIe two-stroke diesel engines it is run on methane and that the Mitsui-
building for installation in three built units will be set up so that they
36,000m3 capacity liquified ethylene can easily be converted to run on
gas carriers being built by Chinas methane as an alternative to ethane
Sinopacific Offshore engineering for if needed. The superstructure-
Hartmann Schiffahrt of Germany and forward gas carriers will also feature
Ocean Yield of Norway. a Svelte bow design to improve
ethane was chosen as fuel for seakeeping at high transit speeds as
the new ships, in preference to well as Star Trilobe cargo tanks. JS aBOVE The container vessel Cap Harriett is seen in the Bosphorus in ballast on 8
July as she made her way to Constanta, where she was dry-docked and renamed
Harrier Hunter. SIMON SMITH
Bocimar to expand fleet

In June the 262m Cap Hamilton
FLEET NEWS (41,358gt/51,744dwt) was renamed
Antwerp-based company Bocimar Hawk Hunter, while on 8 July the 262m
is continuing to expand its fleet of Cap Harriett (39,250gt/51,780dwt)
container ships. In the autumn of 2015 transited the Bosphorus in ballast
the company acquired three former on her way to Constanta, where she
Hamburg Sd sister vessels, but they was dry docked and renamed Harrier
were not renamed until June and July Hunter. The third vessel of the trio,
this year. The 4,255Teu vessels were the 41,358gt Cap Harvey, is still sailing
three of a class of ten produced for under her original guise. All three
aBOVE A series of eco Star gas carriers developed in Germany will be powered
Claus Peter Offen by Hyundai Heavy vessels fly the flag of Liberia. Bocimar
by new ethane- and methane-burning MAN Diesel & Turbo engines. HB HuNTe
Industries at ulsan in 2009. also operates dry-bulk carriers. RC

news
Maersk to upgrade eight E class BRIEF NEWS
ABOVE The 15,3115gt MSC
Alexandra after the collision. MARITIME
AND PORT AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE
COLLISION In early August the

Eugen Maersk, first of the E class vessels to have her capacity increased by 1,300TEU, at Felixstowe Iranian supertanker Dream II
in late July following her enlargement. NICHOLAS LEACH and the container ship MSC
Alexandra came to blows off
wheelhouse and increasing the height an order for 11 (plus six optional) Singapore, with both ships
CONTAINER SHIPS of lashing bridges to take an extra tier second generation Triple E ships with sustaining damage, the MSC
Maersk Line have decided to upgrade of containers. This work is intended to a capacity of 19,630TEU for delivery in vessel extensively, but no
its eight 15,550TEU E class vessels double the lifetime of the ten-year- 2017-18, but there have been fewer injuries or pollution were
so that they can carry a further old ships, and is being carried out at orders for such large vessels this year, reported in the incident. The
1,300TEU. The work, which will also Chinas CSIC Qingdao Beihai Shipyard. due to chronic overcapacity and large 319,999dwt Dream II, owned
involve fitting a new bulbous bow The first E class vessel to be trading losses. Maersks decision to by Irans state-owned National
to cope with slower speeds and so converted was Eugen Maersk upgrade its E class fleet suggests Iranian Tanker Company,
a new propeller, includes raising (171,542gt), which is now back in that the capacity limit may have been sustained damage to her bow,
the accommodation block and service. Maersk have already placed reached in the current climate. RC while MSC Alexandra was hit on
her stern port quarter, causing
a large hole to be made in the
Banned from Europe Teignmouth hull and a number of containers

to fall overboard. Singapores
dredging
Maritime and Port Authority said
that its Port Operations Control
Centre had alerted the Masters
of both vessels of the risk of
PORT NEWS collision, but to no avail. JS
In June a major dredging programme
was undertaken at Teignmouth. The NEWORDER Taiwans Wisdom
approach channel is usually maintained Marine has ordered two
by the local bed leveller Teign C 115,000dwt Aftramax tankers
(94/27gt) and periodically deepened by from Japan Marine United
the Cornish dredger Mannin (72/172gt). Corporations Hiroshima yard
Following the work, the port will be for delivery in early 2019. JS
able to accommodate ships of 5.5m
draught on a 4m tide, with operators NEWBULKER South Koreas
ABP hoping that this will increase Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has been
the cargo shipped through the port. contracted to build a 50,000dwt
ABOVE The 1,394dwt River Pride, formerly the well-known Hoopride, has been
banned from visiting European ports for three months. SIMON SMITH The work was undertaken by Danish bulk carrier for compatriot
firm Rohde Nielsen, who employed owner Ilshin Shipping that will
River Pride operated as Hoopride their suction hopper dredger Modi use LNG as a fuel. To be delivered
COASTER for Lapthorn from her delivery in R (94/1,201gt), which is designed to next year, the ship will be used to
A Yorkshire Dry Dock-built coaster 1984 until her sale in 2006 as Pipit. operate in shallow waters and is ideally transport limestone from South
is unlikely to be returning to UK She became River Pride in 2010. Since suited to the task. DW Koreas Gangwon Province to
waters anytime in the near future, leaving the UK-registered fleet, she Gwangyang City for steel-making.
having been banned by Port State has flown the flags of Liberia, Panama
Control authorities in Europe. and Moldova, and is currently on the CHEMICALTANKERS Stream
Following detention in the Bulgarian Democratic Republic of Congo register. Tankers AS of Norway has
port of Varna for 23 deficiencies, In August the vessel was anchored off ordered two 19,900dwt
River Pride has been banned from the Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun. chemical tankers from Japans
visiting European ports for the next Her sistership, Alize, traded as Fukuoka Shipbuilding, both to
three months. A sistership currently Hoocrest until 2007, before taking her be fitted with stainless steel
registered in Moldova, Alize, was current name in 2013, and she has also cargo tanks, for delivery in late
also subjected to a 12-month ban in traded as Curlew, River Carrier and ABOVE The 1,201gt hopper dredger 2018 and early 2019. JS
January after multiple detentions. Noah. She is at Haydarpasa, Istanbul. RC Modi R at Teignmouth. DAVID WALKER

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ABOVE The US Navy aircraft carrier
John C Stennis (CVN-74) receiving
stores from the combat support ship
Rainier (T-AOE-7) while transiting the
South China Sea in June. Chinas island
building land reclamation strategy
in the area is leading to increased
US Navy deployments to reassure
regional allies of its support. US NAVY
The changing world

environment is inevitably
having an impact on warship
design. The post-Cold
Conrad Waters, Editor of Seaforth World Naval Review, summarises War period saw significant
recent global naval trends and describes some of the new warship investment in warships
optimised to promote stability
classes currently being delivered. from threats such as terrorism
N
and piracy in far-flung areas of
aval that confirms plans for 12 new This is the first time the Russian the world. This has particularly
developments submarines among a list that Navy has been involved in such been the case in Europe,
during 2016 also includes nine frigates, operations, demonstrating where any direct threat was
have been driven 12 patrol vessels and at least the United States Tomahawk perceived to be low after the
by growing two replenishment ships. The missile no longer enjoys a Soviet Unions collapse. To
political tension on both sides French Short Fin Barracuda monopoly in long-range some extent, war-fighting
of the globe. In Asia, Chinas design has been selected for precision attacks. capabilities were accorded a
assertive stance towards an the planned submarines, while
ambitious set of maritime builders from Italy, Spain and
claims have put her at odds the UK are fighting it out for
with many of her neighbours. the frigate contract. However,
This has particularly been the all assembly and outfitting work
case in the South China Sea. will be carried out in Australia.
Here, Chinese construction Relations between Russia and
companies have been drafted the West also remain strained.
in to expand a number of Indeed, the Russian armed
reefs and shoals into fully- forces have been flexing their
fledged islands under a strategy muscles, harassing NATO
sometimes referred to as the warships operating in the
great wall of sand. Baltic and Black Seas while
Inevitably, many countries undertaking an actual military
are looking to expand their intervention in Syrias civil war.
own naval capabilities while This saw Russian surface ships
turning to the United States in the Caspian Sea and the new
Navy for reassurance. The submarine Rostov-on-Don in the
tension is boosting local naval Mediterranean fire Kalibr cruise
construction. For example, missiles at positions held both
Australia released a new defence by Islamic State terrorists and
white paper in February 2016 more moderate rebel groups.

MODERN WARSHIPS
lower priority. The renewal of of the US Navy surface fleet.

tension is obviously resulting in The ultimate design is much
a rethink of this approach and larger and more expensive than
priorities are changing. This is these ships and explains why
evident from recent orders for only three of a planned class of
submarines and other war- 32 will be completed.
fighting vessels. A major reason for the
growth in size and cost is the
United States Navy amount of new technology
USS Zumwalt which has been incorporated
The most innovative vessel to into the design. This includes
enter service during 2016 is an integrated electrical
undoubtedly the new US Navy propulsion system similar to ABOVE Japans new helicopter carrying destroyer Izumo is able to deploy a
destroyer Zumwalt (DDG- that found in Britains Queen wide range of rotary aircraft in support of anti-submarine, amphibious and
1000). Looking something of Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. humanitarian operations. Her standard air group is nine helicopters, which can be
a cross between a 19th-century It provides sufficient surplus operated from five spots on her flight deck. JMSDF
ironclad and a stealthy science power to allow the potential
fiction spacecraft, she was use of new weapons, such as
originally designed to support rail-guns and lasers in due
amphibious operations in the course. Another innovation is
littoral regions adjoining the the use of a peripheral launch
worlds coastlines. system by which missiles are
This role is reflected in her dispersed in quadruple vertical
principal armament of two launchers located around the
155mm (six inch) guns. Each side of the hull. These are
of these, which are known as designed to explode outwards
Advanced Gun Systems, can fire if hit, protecting the destroyer
precision-guided shells at a rate from significant damage.
of ten rounds per minute out
to ranges of around 150km. Peoples Liberation
The design also incorporates Army Navy (China)
an enclosed slipway under Type 052C Luyang II
the flight deck for Special Rather more conventional in
Forces boats, and a range of design than Zumwalt, but still
helicopters and unmanned showing modern influences
aerial vehicles can be operated. such as stealth and non-rotating
Incredibly, Zumwalt was electronically scanned radar
originally intended to be a panels, are Chinas Type 052C
relatively cheap supplement Luyang II or Lanzhou class
to the Arleigh Burke and destroyers. Two prototype
Ticonderoga class destroyers vessels were completed as long
and cruisers that form the bulk ago as 2005, but a considerable
BELOW Tensions in Asia are being replicated in Europe, where the relationship
between Russia and NATO is under strain. This is leading many navies to consider The new US Navy destroyer USS Zumwalt on sea trials in April. Two 155mm
placing more emphasis on territorial defence after a period when overseas guns are housed in the stealth mountings forward of the bridge, while
expeditionary deployments were fashionable. This image shows the Royal vertical launch cells for a wide range of missiles are housed in quadruple
Norwegian Navy frigate Roald Amundsen and the mine-countermeasures vessel cells positioned flush with the deck along each side of the hull. US NAVY
Rauma on an exercise in coastal waters. STINA NYMARK BREKKE/NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES
ABOVE The Royal Navy of Oman is taking delivery of two new HSSV high-speed
support vessels built by Austal. This picture shows the lead ship, RNOV Al Mubshir,
on sea trials off the Australian Coast in March. AUSTAL

ABOVE/MAINPIC Six Chinese Type 052C destroyers have now been completed and they are being increasingly used as part of
the Peoples Liberation Army Navys international deployments. During 2015-16 the fifth ship in the class Jinan was part of
a group that undertook a 309-day circumnavigation of the globe. The ships visited 18 ports in 16 countries, exercising with a
range of navies en route. Royal austRalian navy and us navy
gap followed before four more of cover provided by Chinas The Lanzhou class are carrying destroyer Izumo. A
were delivered between 2013 largely land-based air force. In becoming increasingly evident medium-sized command ship
and 2015. contrast with previous Chinese on international deployments, and helicopter carrier in all
In line with Chinese destroyer designs, the Type suggesting growing Chinese but name, she is representative
ambitions to be able to conduct 052Cs use a significant amount confidence in the maturity of the of the regional popularity of
oceanic or blue water naval of indigenously-sourced design. However, production has aviation support ships that
operations, the design places equipment. However, much been halted at six ships to allow lack the strike potential of true
significant emphasis on anti- of this is still derived from transition to an improved Type aircraft carriers. Izumo herself
air warfare so as to permit modified Russian or Western 052D class. This incorporates a is a larger, modified version of
deployment beyond the range technology. new gun, an improved missile the previous Hyuga class, two
launching system and an of which were commissioned in
upgraded main multi-function 2009 and 2011.
radar. Around 12 of these ships She lacks some of the
will be built before there is a earlier ships specialised
further shift to the new Type 055 anti-submarine equipmen-t,
destroyer. These are much larger but is able to carry more
ships that will reportedly rival the helicopters and has greater
US Navys Arleigh Burke class in capacity to support amphibious
size and capability. They will be deployments. There have
used as escorts for Chinas new been repeated reports that
indigenous aircraft carriers, the consideration is being given to
first of which is now being built operating the F-35B jump jet
at Dalian (formerly Port Arthur). variant of the Lightning II Joint
Strike Fighter from her deck.
Japan Maritime Self However, this would require
ABOVE The Republic of Singapore Navy has recently taken delivery of the new Defence Force greater modification than might
littoral mission ship Independence, a corvette-sized vessel designed to undertake JDS Izumo be immediately apparent. Izumo
a broad spectrum of missions in coastal waters. She will undertake an extensive Another example of the powerful was delivered in March 2015. A
series of trials before entering operational service in 2017. There will eventually be new ships the tensions in Asia are sister, Kaga, will follow in the
eight ships in the class. Republic of singapoRe navy spawning is Japans helicopter- course of 2017.

MODERN WARSHIPS
The Lanzhou cLass are

becoming increasingLy evidenT
on inTernaTionaL depLoymenTs,
suggesTing growing chinese
confidence in The maTuriTy of
The design
Ship DetailS of Some of the lateSt warShip DeSignS

Ship USS ZUmwalt type 052C lUyang ii JDS iZUmo rSS inDepenDenCe
CoUntry USA China Japan Singapore
type Destroyer (DDG) Destroyer (DDG) Helicopter Carrier (DDH) Littoral Mission Ship (FS)
DiSplaCement 15,800 tons 7,000 tons 27,000 tons 1,200 tons
DimenSionS 186m x 25m x 8m 155m x 17m x 6m 248m x 38m x 7m 80m x 12m x 3m
propUlSion Integrated electric, 30+ knots CODOG, 28+ knots COGAG, 30 knots Diesel, 27 knots
Crew 147 + 28 aviation c.280 c. 500 23 + up to 30 mission specialists
armament 2 x 155mm, 2 x 30mm guns 1 x 100mm gun, 2 x 30mm CIWS 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS 1 x 76mm, 1 x 25mm, 2 x 12.7mm guns
20 x quad VLS modules 48 x VLS cells, 8 x SSM 2 x Sea RAM SAM 8 x VLS cells
2 x helicopters 6 x torpedo tubes 9 x helicopters 1 x helicopter (flight deck only)
1 x helicopter (standard air group)
Republic of missions with as small a crew class, these new ships take their Royal Netherlands Navy
SingaporeNavy as possible, they can be quickly inspiration from a US Navy HNLMS Karel Doorman
RSS Independence reconfigured for various design, in this case the Spearhead A good example of the lightly-
Although many warship designs different tasks through the (EPF-1) class expeditionary fast armed but highly flexible
from the leading Asian navies use of containerised mission transports. Two of the vessels warships being designed by
have tended to reflect their packages. The lead ship was were ordered from Australian European navies for lengthy
desire to establish ocean-going delivered by local builders ST ferry builder Austal in 2014. expeditionary operations to
naval forces, operations in Marine in May 2016 prior to The first, Al Mubshir, was promote stability overseas is the
the coastal zone still remain a lengthy series of trials. Seven delivered in May 2016. She is Dutch joint support ship Karel
important for larger fleets. This more will follow by 2020. capable of transporting over 250 Doorman. She is intended to
is reflected in the Republic troops, together with supporting be able to combine a number
of Singapore Navys latest Royal Navy of Oman vehicles and equipment at of roles in just one hull. She
Independence class littoral RNOV Al Mubshir speeds of up to 38 knots, and can replenish other ships at
mission vessels, which share Another new warship class can operate a medium-sized sea, transport equipment over
many concepts with their lager designed principally for littoral helicopter. In addition to her considerable distances, and act
namesakes, the US Navys operation is the Royal Navy troop-carrying role, she is well as a sea-base for amphibious
littoral combat ships. of Omans HSSV high-speed equipped to support disaster- operations.
Designed to be able to support vessel. Just as for relief and search-and-rescue In another practice that is
carry out a wide range of Singapores Independence operations. becoming common in the

THISPICANDBELOW The Dutch joint support ship Karel
Doorman is an innovative and flexible design that is
intended to allow one ship to carry out replenishment,
transportation and sea-basing roles. Displacing around
28,000 tons, she is the size of a light aircraft carrier but
does not incorporate a through deck. She is only lightly
armed, but her Thales I-Mast provides sophisticated sensors
and communications equipment. ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY
shipbuilding industry, Karel such as those posed by

Doormans hull was built at speedboats and light aircraft.
the Dutch Damen groups However, the incorporation of
low-cost facility at Galati in an integrated mast similar to
Romania before being shipped that found on the Holland class
to the Netherlands for final offshore patrol vessels provides
assembly. Although not her with strong surveillance and
formally commissioned until communications abilities.
April 2015, she has already
been used to deliver supplies to Royal Swedish Navy
combat the Ebola virus in West A26 Class
Africa the previous autumn. In An entirely different type of
addition to being able to carry vessel is represented by the
considerable quantities of fuel Royal Swedish Navys new
and stores, she has a large deck A26 class submarines, two of
that can support operations by which were ordered from local
the heaviest helicopters. defence company Saab in June
A berthing point at the stern
facilitates offloading of troops
and supplies. Armament is
limited to close-range weapons
for use against missiles and
so-called asymmetric threats,
Computer-generated images of the new Swedish A26 class submarine

show her to have an unusual design aimed at reducing radar cross section.
Another interesting feature is a large multi-mission portal located between
the torpedo tubes that can be used to deploy divers. COPYRIGHT SAAB AB

MODERN WARSHIPS
WORLD NAVAL FLEET STRENGTHS MID 2016

COUNTRY USA FRANCE ITALY SPAIN UK RUSSIA CHINA INDIA JAPAN S KOREA
Aircraft Carrier CVN/CV 10 1 1 - - 1 1 1 - -
Support Carrier CVS/CVH - - 1 - - - - - 3 -
Strategic Missile Sub SSBN 14 4 - - 4 13 6 - - -
Attack Submarine SSGN/SSN 57 6 - - 7 20 8 1 - -
Patrol Submarine SSK - - 6 3 - 20 50 13 17 14
Fleet Escort CGN/CG/DDG/FFG 85 17 18 11 19 25 60 24 37 24
Patrol Escort DD/FFG/FSG/FS 7 15 4 - - 45 35 10 6 18
Missile Attack Craft PGG/PTG - - - - - 35 75 10 6 17
Mine Countermeasures MCMV 11 14 10 6 15 40 25 6 27 9
Major Amp LHD/LPD/LPH/LSD 31 3 3 3 6 - 4 1 3 1
Notes 1. Russia and China totals are approximate; 2. Support carrier numbers for Italy include one vessel converted to an amphibious role.
2015. These submarines are heat, magnetic signature and The first of these commissioned production was dispersed to
specifically designed for high- radar cross-section. This is in March and three will be provide greater resilience in
intensity warfighting missions apparent in the unique design in service by year-end. They times of war. Among these
in the shallow and dangerous of the hull and fin, as well as have a distinct resemblance components are gas turbines
waters of the Baltic, where the enclosure of propulsion to the Indian Navys Talwar manufactured in Ukraine,
stealth is all important. systems to reduce noise. class, of which they are slightly which not surprisingly in the
Sweden has previously The latter include Saabs modifiedversions. light of recent events they are
demonstrated an ability to own Stirling air-independent The Russian ships were ordered no longer willing to provide.
design stealthy surface warships propulsion system, which allows when programmes for new The result is that work on a
with designs such as the Visby prolonged underwater operation designs started to run behind further three members of the
class corvettes. The A26 to prevent the need to surface schedule. In effect, they represent class will be suspended until an
class will be an attempt to for air. An interesting design the use of a tried and tested alternative source of engines
transfer this approach to the feature is a multi-mission portal concept which originally dates can be developed.
underwater domain. located between the four sets back to the Krivak type frigates
Saabs efforts to ensure what of torpedo tubes to allow divers of the Cold War to bolster
they term virtual invisibility and unmanned vehicles to be fleet numbers, until problems BELOW The new Russian frigate Admiral
for the A26 design extend released into the sea. with the next generation of Grigorovich is an upgraded version of
across a wide range of potential ships can be resolved. the Talwar class that Russia recently
give-aways, including sound, Russian Navy A further difficulty with built for the Indian Navy. Three will
RFS Admiral Grigorovich the Grigorovich class design have been commissioned by the end
Some of the limitations is its reliance on equipment of 2016, but work on a further three is
in Russias current naval sourced from various republics suspended, as Ukraine will no longer
expansion are revealed in the of the former Soviet Union. supply the gas turbines that form
new Project 1135.6 frigates of their main propulsion plant. YANTAR
This is a throwback to the
the Admiral Grigorovich class. Cold War era, when military

ri t i
Ma Mosaicm e
A collection of readers
own photographs
The port of Galway on the west coast of Ireland is at the heart of Galway Citys economic and
social development. The port is expanding, and now operates under the auspices of the Galway
Harbour Company. The number of ships that visit is increasing, with a good variety of types to
be seen, from coasters to cruise ships, as Brian McGraths photos show.
ABOVE The Netherlands-
flagged 2,545gt cargo ship
Aerandir (2009) arrives in
Galway to collect a cargo of
scrap metal.
LEFT Phoenix Reisens

1984-built cruise ship
Artania (44,588gt) at
anchor off Galway Port on
a one-day visit. Irelands
west coast is visited by
a growing number of
cruise ships each year, and
Artanias capacity of 1,260
passengers makes her
one of the larger vessels.
Between 1927 and 1933 the
transatlantic liner trade was
re-established in Galway
and more than 100 such
ships called at the port.

READERS ARCHIVE
ABOVE The 2,820gt cargo ship Lehmann Bay, which was built in 1998, arrives in
Galway to collect a cargo of scrap metal.
ABOVE The fishery research vessel Corystes
usually operates around Northern Ireland,
but is not an uncommon sight in Galway.
The 284gt vessel was built for the Centre
for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Science (Cefas) and homeported in
Lowestoft until being transferred to the
Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development in January 2005.
LEFT The 5,232gt Gibraltar-registered cargo

ship Andante (2005) arrived at Galway in
late July with the largest ever wind turbine
blades so far brought into the port.
The blades are assembled in Belfast and
shipped to Galway for use at a new wind
farm on the west coast of Ireland.
BELOW The 2,844gt cargo vessel Fehn

Heaven (1996, ex-Saar Amsterdam) arriving
at Galway. The Antigua & Barbuda-flagged
vessel trades round Europe, and is now
named Fehn Pollux.

Fire on board British
The tragic accident that befell the
tanker British Crown in August 1966
was, as Graham Wallace discovered,
little reported and little known,
with no memorials to those who
lost their lives in the fire.
O
n Saturday 20 up in situ and fed into a local On 19 August all loading was crew quarters, but only along
August 1966, steel mill. There is no known proceeding as normal under the the starboard side. The deck
at 0530, the memorial to her loss or to supervision of her Chief Officer work party, led by the Second
tanker British the personnel, 12 officers, the Tom Carrick, Second Officer Officer, disappeared, and the
Crown was berthing/cargo master and six Graham May and Third Officer aft cargo deck was devastated.
loading the last 1,000 tons of crew, who died. Paul Griffith. About 0500 the The Berthing Masters IPC crew
her 25,000-ton cargo at Umm British Crown was one next morning the Captain and boat, moored on the starboard
Said for Kwinana, when there of BP Tanker Cos original Chief Officer were discussing side, drifted aft, a flaming wreck,
was a major explosion and fire supertankers, having been built finalising the cargo when the and her crew swam ashore.
in the centre cargo tank just in 1952 at Cammell Lairds explosion occurred. Both In the engine room was the
underneath and to the aft of yard on Birkenhead. By 1966 managed to get to the bridge 4/8 watch consisting of Third
her amidships accommodation. she was a well-worn vessel. In wing and jump overboard, Engineer Kennedy, Junior
Those crew that could August of that year, she was being rescued much later. Engineer Jack Easton and a
immediately abandoned ship, returning to Umm Said to The violent explosion and fireman. The now off-duty 12/4
and the tanker then burned for load another cargo for Western ensuing fire immediately Senior Engineer Ray Bartley was
approximately three months, Australia. She bunkered at engulfed the midships cooling off in the aft Officers
eventually being declared a Das Island before heading off, accommodation. There were Saloon with his first trip Junior
total constructive loss. under the command of Captain no survivors from the Mates or Engineer Rodney Slack. Bartley
She was emptied of 12,000 Tuckett (Ships Master) and Engineers decks, and eventually stayed aft and survived; Slack
tons of unburned cargo, run Captain Harris, Iraq Petroleum these decks collapsed. The eventually returned to his
aground, sunk and abandoned, Companys Berthing Master, tide was flowing bow to stern, midships cabin and perished.
a grisly sight for several years, to the Umm Said pilotage and burning oil was floating down Jack Easton went up to deck
before she was eventually cut southern offshore berth. towards the aft engine room and level and soon realised the ship

Crown
EXCURSION SHIPS
Authors involvement in BP Tankers
I
was a BP Marine Engineering in answering most of their questions.
Apprentice and Engineering Officer I continually look to meet more, but
from 1960 to 1962. In 1961 I was now it is grandchildren.
Fourth Engineer on British Light Umm Said was a godforsaken hole
with Third Engineer Frederick Gerald when I was there a number of times
Wilson. I was working shoreside in between 1960 and 1962; I have never
1966, when I learned that he had been able to obtain much information
been killed in an explosion aboard about the shoreside facilities in the
British Crown. 1960s. One of my most interesting
Not until my retirement in 1996 local contacts was Gregory Warrick,
did I start a BP website (www. son of the Berthing Master, Captain
bpapprentices.com); this included Michael Warrick. His family lived in the
a section on the British Crown Umm Said area for 20 years, and he
disaster, and I started searching proved to be an excellent source.
for information about the disaster. Michael Warrick sailed a few BP
My first great success was finding tankers; on his death in 2007, Gregory
Fredericks widow and son, born wanted to find some photos of
after his fathers death. BP tankers, found my website and
I have met two officers who sailed immediately got in touch. Michael
on the British Crown, Captain Tony Warricks picture is in BPs 100th
Tuckett (died 2013) and Ray Bartley, Anniversary Book (2015) Riding the
and had phone conversations with waves. I have made many friends
Jack Easton and Tom Carrick. I have in my search for information about
been in touch with about six of the British Crown and my BP background
victims families and been successful has helped open doors.
British Crown was one of several similar tankers

built in the 1950s for BP. She had 16 complete
transverse watertight bulkheads, was classed
with Lloyds Register of Shipping, and her safety
equipment was in order and all appropriate
certificates were in force at the time of the fire
that ended her career. FOTOFLITE ABOVE On board the tanker British Light in 1961 are Third Engineer F. J.
Wilson (left) and the author, who was Fourth Engineer.
had to be abandoned. The

British Crown on
engine room crew left, and the
builders trials.
fireman extinguished the boilers.
As the fire raged, of the
four ships lifeboats three were
soon put out of action. Fourth
Engineer Ray Bartley attempted
to lower the only remaining
one, the port aft boat, but it
would not move. The only way
to abandon ship was to take to
the sea and swim or slide down
the mooring line, to take refuge
on the port aft mooring buoy.
The two young engineers,
Bartley and Easton, began
to direct the Goanese crew
to abandon ship. Ray Bartley
threw a wooden galley table
overboard and used that to
help crew reach the buoy.
Jack Easton, being a certified
lifesaver, took to the water in an

BRITISH CROWN
British Crown, emptied of her
BUILT 1952, Cammel Laird cargo, abandoned and resting
& Co, Birkenhead on the bottom, with all her tanks
DImeNSIONS 619.5ft x 81.3ft x deliberately flooded with seawater.
44.75ft
TONNAge 18,566gt, 28,000dwt
eNgINeS Two steam
turbines, double
reduction gearing
to one shaft; two
watertube boilers
450psi
SPeeD 15 knots
COmPLemeNT 63 in total: 18 British
Officers, 45 Goa
crew
ABOVE Captain Warrick striding up the beach as British Crown burns. This photo ABOVE British Crowns foredeck showing the assembly of blue piping used to
was provided by Captain Tuckett, and is probably one taken by IPC employee Tom empty the cargo tanks and the flexible rubber hose over the railing which was
Greenway, who was on the scene and took several photos of the ship on fire. connected to Btitish Loyalty to pump out the cargo.
initial attempt to find personnel help immediately available.

from amidships. That failing, he There were a few small boats
returned to help non-swimmers in the area, but they were of
to reach the buoy, including limited use. The fire-fighting
fending off the blazing crew Tug Arzanah was sent from
boat reaching the buoy. Das Island, but its equipment
The sounds and sights must was totally insufficient for
have been horrific: the intensely the task, and eventually she
burning ship with oil floating returned to her port, which had
on the surface and no external been left without its protection.
She did, however, return a
long while later to help finally
Awards for gallantry extinguish the remaining fire.
For his gallantry Jack M. Easton Eventually a number of
received the 1966 Mountbatten vessels arrived to help and
ABOVE A view from British Loyalty showing the cargo line from the wrecked
Medal of the Royal Life Saving rescued crew from the water
British Crown to British Loyalty to enable the oil to be transferred.
Society; this is awarded to the and the buoy. A helicopter, in
holder of one of the Societys life- the area on another task, was
saving proficiency awards for the sent, but proved to be of no
rescue adjudged to be the best service. Captain Harris, the
of the year. He also received the IPC Berthing Master, had two
Stanhope Gold Medal of the Royal days previously requested a shift
Humane Society for the bravest change to allow him to bring
deed of the year. the tanker in. The Berthing
Raymond Bartley received a Master he replaced was Captain
testimonial on vellum from the
Michael Warrick, who became
Royal Humane Society for his
the major coordinator in the
gallantry.
attempts to control the fire, and
Abdul Karim Dawood (Fireman) he eventually had the anchor
was presented with a Certificate
from the Society for Protection of
chains and mooring lines cut
Life from Fire and the Marottam
and beached the vessel. She
Morarjee award for Gallantry. drifted aground still burning.
In December 1966 BP Chief ABOVE The Arabic script on British Crowns hull warning to keep off the wreck.

EXCURSION SHIPS
Engineer Chris Smith was sent IN MEMORY

to the wreck to transfer 12,000
The following Officers and crew
tons of unburned cargo to the
who lost their lives in British Crown
old BP tanker British Loyalty.
Paul Adrian Griffith, Third Officer, 24,
He was helped by two members
from Bristol
of British Loyaltys crew, her
Third Engineer and Electrician; Alec Webster, Chief Engineer, 37,
from Cleethorpes
unfortunately, neither of their
names were recorded. This was Frederick Gerald Wilson, Second
accomplished by ingeniously Engineer, 30, from Hull
using plastic piping and salt Peter Masters, Extra Fourth
water to displace oil into the Engineer, 22, from Sunderland
stricken ships forward coffer Rodney Bruce Joseph Slacke, Junior
dam, and from there air- Engineer, 28, from Nottingham
operated pumps on the ship Peter Edward Austin, Junior
were used to transfer the oil Engineer, 22, from Bristol
ABOVE Looking from the foredeck to the amidships of the wrecked British Crown. via a sunken metal pipeline to Joseph Godfrey Uglow, Electrician,
British Loyalty, an old 12,000- 43, from Looe
ton BP tanker, which was Frederick George Fifield, Chief
anchored 200 yards away on Steward, 44, from Barry
24-hour standby, and was ready Frank Thomas Smith, Radio Officer,
to leave instantly at the first 22, from Lancashire
sign of any ignition. Keith Sydney Smith, Navigating
From British Loyalty, the Cadet, 18, from Birmingham
cargo was taken further out George M Dower, Navigating Cadet,
to deep water and by 27 19, from Aberdeen
December 1966 had been Graham Edwin May, Second Officer,
transferred to British Merchant 25, from Bexhill-on-Sea
for delivery to BPs Aden Captain Harris, the Berthing Master,
refinery. British Merchant was also perished
of a similar size and style to Six members of the Indian deck
British Crown, and some of her crew also died, from the on-deck
engineers visited the wreck with loading crew and the remainder
ABOVE Looking forward, main deck, amidships accommodation to bow. the intention of collecting spare when abandoning ship
parts, but found the engine Esack Ebrahmin, Deck Serang, 45
room to be a site of complete Indian from Ratnagiri
devastation. The ships tanks
Deoram Sonoo, Seaman 1, 44 Indian
were flooded, the hull rested on from Ratnagiri
the bottom, and so the ship was
Abdul Rahmin Yusuf, Seaman II, 25
sealed up to prevent entry. A
Indian from Ratnagiri
keep-off sign was painted on
Bhagwan U Tandal, Seaman II, 24
her stern in Arabic, and she was
Indian from Ratnagiri
left in that state for many years.
SK Ebrahim SK Esmail, Pumpman,
The official inquiry to the
45 Indian from Ratnagiri
tragedy took place between 2
and 14 October 1967, under SK Ebramin SK Mohd, Assistant
Pumpman, 37, Indian from Ratnagiri
the Merchant Shipping Act of
1984. There were no survivors The five survivors were, at the time
from the epicentre of the fire, of the explosion, were in the aft
accommodation and engine room
and, as a result, it was never
absolutely certain what caused Third Engineer, Alexander Kennedy,
the fire. Although the Umm Senior Officer of engine room watch
ABOVE The minimal shore facilities at Umm Said in 1966. All colour photos courtesy
Said cargo was particularly Fourth Engineer, Ray Bartley Senior
of chris smith officer of the previous watch
volatile, it was vented to mast
height as normal. But a bridge- Jack Milne Easton, Junior Engineer
mounted air-conditioning of the engine room watch
motor assembly was deemed Captain Tony Tuckett
to have probably caused the Chief Officer Tom Carrick
spark which led to the ships
ultimatedestruction. in Antwerp, and it is highly
A funeral service was held probable that all who joined in
later in 1966 in the Umm March were aboard in August.
Said area for those who had There was a small cemetery in
lost their lives. A memorial to the old Umm Said site area for
Those lost at Sea from the foreign seamen but, due to site
Port of Looe can be found expansion, it has disappeared.
in the small Cornish port, It is now 50 years since the
and Electrician J. G. Uglow tragedy and, to date, there is
is listed. British Crown had no known memorial to British
ABOVE The tangled deck of British Crown, looking aft. a crew change in May 1966 Crown and her crew.

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OF THE
MONTH
The successful Spirit class cruise ship
C
Peter Knego goes on arnival Miracle class of ships forms the basis of Signature class (Eurodam, Nieuw
is the fourth of a number of Carnival platforms, Amsterdam), Cunards Queen
board Carnival Miracle Carnival Cruises making it one of the most prolific Victoria and Queen Elizabeth,
to look at her interior quartet of Spirit and successful blueprints in P&Os Arcadia and Costa
class ships. Built passenger ship history. Cruises Costa Atlantica, Costa
designs and assess the in 2004, she followed the nearly Offshoots of the Spirit class Mediterranea, Costa Luminosa
guest experience. identical 2001-built Carnival include Holland America Lines and Costa Deliziosa.
Spirit and Carnival Pride and four Vista class ships (Zuiderdam, By current standards,
the 2002-built Carnival Legend. Oosterdam, Westerdam and Miracle and her three sisters
The hull and machinery of this Noordam), Holland Americas are moderately sized, nicely
Most of the Carnival

Miracles exterior deck
areas, including Sun
Deck, are lined in high
quality teak.
ABOVE Carnival Miracle boasts a forward observation platform on Lido Deck that offers an
excellent vantage point from atop the bridge wings.
The sleek, angular Carnival Miracle

is the fourth and final member of
Carnival Cruises popular Spirit class.

Carnival
Miracle
Carnival Miracle will be based in Long Beach, California until the spring of
2017, when the ship will begin cruising from China.
At the Lewis Carroll-themed Mad Hatters Ball, a likeness of Guests enter Carnival Miracle at the Promenade Deck level The wine-themed, double-deck Bacchus Dining Room can
Carnival architect Joseph Farcus offers a tea cup. of the Metropolis Atrium. seat up to 1,250 guests.
The vertiginous Metropolis Atrium with its glass lifts, as A skylight in the base of the ships funnel is the setting for Frankensteins Lab is a nightclub with an oversized version
seen from Lido Deck. the Manhattan-themed Nick and Noras steakhouse. of the Frankenstein monster as its main focal point.
proportioned, angular vessels, Long Beach, California on
with clean lines and a relatively year-round cruises to Mexico,
low superstructure topped with Hawaii and Alaska.
Carnivals trademark winged
funnel. Like her sisterships, she Miracle designs
is the product of the Kvaerner Evident from the moment
Masa Shipyard (hull no.503) one steps on board is former
in Helsinki. Now called STX Carnival architect Joseph
Finland, the yard was founded Farcus conceptual decorative
as Wrtsil and has operated in style, which, in the case of
recent years as Aker Finnyards. Carnival Miracle, is inspired by
The Spirit class ships are or representative of Fabulous
distinguishable from the rest Fictional Icons. In all but the
of the Carnival fleet by the recently modified Carnival 2.0
glass skylights in the base spaces, the ship is infused with
of their funnels. They sport Farcus frenetic use of colours
12 passenger decks and are patterns and materials.
powered by six nine-cylinder The prolific marine architect
Wrtsil diesel engines that got his start working with the
drive twin Azipods to give a legendary Morris Lapidus (best
service speed of 22 knots. known for his MidCentury ABOVE Among Carnival Miracles more spacious accommodations are the 44 340ft2 Suites.
Following a major refit at style Miami Beach hotels,
San Franciscos BAE Systems including the Fontainebleau)
drydock in 2014, the 88,500gt and has been working with
Carnival Miracle boasts many Carnival since 1975, when
of Carnival Cruises new 2.0 the line had a two-ship fleet
dining and entertainment of vintage British-built ocean
enhancements, while retaining liners: the 1961-built Mardi
the highest passenger space Gras (ex-Empress of Canada)
ratio (attained by dividing and the 1956-built Carnivale
the gross tonnage by double (ex-Empress of Britain, Queen
occupancy capacity) in the Anna Maria). Initially, Farcus
Carnival fleet of 41. supervised minor upgrades
In comparison, the lines and modernisations to the two
older Fantasy class ships are former Empresses, but his first
smaller, at 70,000gt, but major Carnival commission
carry almost as many guests was the top-to-bottom
(2,052, resulting in a PSR transformation of Safmarines
of 34), and the larger ships S.A. Vaal from a combination
likewise have PSRs ranging passenger-cargo liner into the
from 37 (Carnival Liberty) to modern Festivale in 1978.
34 (Carnival Breeze). Miracle His bold reinterpretation of
is currently homeporting in a once traditional liner into a ABOVE Carnival Miracles 1,167-seat Phantom Showroom spans three decks.

SHIP OF THE MONTH
LEFT Carnival Miracle anchors

at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on
her Mexican Riviera cruises.
ABOVE Carnival Miracle berths within sight of the 1936-built former Cunard Line Queen Mary at Long Beach.
glitzy, neon-bedecked party There are also forward-facing Hornblower, the Phantom of
ship not only changed the CARNIVAL MIRACLE observation terraces, including the Opera, Edgar Allan Poe,
face of Carnival Cruises, but COMPANY Carnival Cruise Lines one directly above the bridge the movie Casablanca and
led to an overall industry trend LAUNCHED 5.6.2003
wings, offering panoramic more. Love it or hate it, no
towards more flashy cruise ship views, jutting out over the sea. one can accuse Farcus work of
BUILT 2004, Kvaerner Masa
design. The Farcus interior Up on Sun (10) and Lido being bland or uninteresting.
Shipyard, Helsinki,
look was an integral part of (9) Decks, the spa and gym In contrast, Carnival Miracles
Finland (hull no.503)
the Carnival experience before are situated forward and Nick newly added or remodelled
DIMENSIONS 963ft x 106ft x 26ft
his departure in 2011, and he and Noras steakhouse and spaces, such as the Alchemy
also designed ships operated by TONNAGE 88,500gt Horatios buffet are stacked Bar, the SkyBox Sports Bar and
Carnivals Costa subsidiary. CAPACITY 2,124 passengers between the middle and aft the RedFrog Pub, seem almost
934
pools. The steakhouse is quite an generic in their tameness.
CREW
On board Miracle innovative space, with its domed Carnival Miracles
Thanks to uncluttered open PROPULSION Six nine-cylinder red skylight that forms the base accommodation ranges
Wrtsil diesels,
decks, three stairtowers, 15 of the funnel. Its lofty ceiling from Interior Staterooms to
62,370kW (combined),
elevators and wide passageways, is cathedral-like, especially with Penthouse Suites with separate
driving twin pods
Carnival Miracle is easy to the rooms positioning at the top bedrooms and sitting areas.
navigate. Public areas are SPEED 22 knots
edge of the ships ten-deck-tall Among the most sought-after
concentrated at the top and atrium. And for vertiginous thrill are the aft-situated Vista Suites,
bottom, with five decks of seekers, there is a glass staircase with wraparound balconies that
cabins and suites in between. that loops approximately 100ft overlook the ships wake. Typical
Guests enter Carnival Miracle over the vast chasm. outside Balcony Cabins boast
on the Promenade Deck level of teak verandas with tinted glass
the Metropolis Atrium, which Over the top rails and full length glass windows
has a grand staircase descending Among the more over-the-top to provide unobstructed sea views.
from a mezzanine on one side spaces, the Madhatters Ball All staterooms feature twin beds,
facing a trio of panoramic glass is a cabaret-style lounge and a small desk area, cherry-toned
elevators on the other. In its comedy club that features 3-D cabinetry with shelves, flat
centre is a bar where guests can figures from Lewis Carrolls screen TVs, mini-fridges with a
look up into an expanse filled Alice In Wonderland. In menu of snacks and drinks for
with wave-patterned, iridescent Frankensteins Lab, the ships purchase, a sofa and table.
banisters and backlit orange double-deck nightclub, there is Carnival Miracle is
and purple glass panels that a giant Frankensteins monster impeccably maintained by an
culminate in a massive fresco of bolted to the bulkhead behind international crew of 934. Her
reclining Roman ladies. the dance floor amid gargoyles officers are especially proud
Some of the ships more and tubes of plasma lighting. of the ships solid Finnish
traditional features include The Bacchus Dining Room is a construction and reliable
teak-lined decks and balconies particularly striking space with machinery. And while Carnival
and even an open promenade its massive purple chandeliers Miracle might not have some of
which, when combined with representing clusters of grapes the bells and whistles that can be
the interior Gatsbys Garden, ABOVE The glass skylight in the base of and silver-painted columns. found on the latest generation
allows passengers to make a the funnel is one of Carnival Miracles Elsewhere, one will find of mega-ships, she enjoys a
full circuit around the ship. more unique architectural features. decorative tributes to Horatio fiercely loyal following.

STOCKHOLM
Lady Hutton today boasts 61 cabins
of varying size and category, but
when she was the yacht Vanadis
the same space was occupied by
just seven luxury suites.
Jewel of F
or many visitors to in Djurgrden. In one way
Stockholm, the first it is strange that Vasa should
vessel to catch the be preserved, as she was a
eye is the elegant full- failure, sinking in Stockholm
the Baltic
rigged sailing ship harbour on 10 August 1628
af Chapman, which is moored just 1,300m into her maiden
at Skeppsholmen almost voyage, with the loss of at least
opposite the Royal Palace. For a 30 of her crew. Many of her
fortunate few it will also be their cannons were subsequently
temporary home, as the vessel is salved, but the ship herself
maintained as a fully functioning was to remain on the seabed,
Swedens capital city is surrounded by water, so it youth hostel on which guests almost perfectly preserved, for a
is no surprise that ships play such a major part in can stay in comfortable cabins, further 333 years.
some of which have been A major and delicate salvage
its everyday life. And with many historic vessels restored back to their original operation eventually brought
moored along its quaysides, a museum displaying style. It is a far cry from her Vasa to the surface in April
original purpose as a cargo ship. 1961, and she was placed on
the worlds best preserved 17th-century warship,
She was built by Whitehaven display the following year at
and steamers still in active service, Stockholm is a Shipbuilding Co in 1888 as the temporary Wasavarvet
shiplovers delight, as Nick Hall discovers. Dunboyne for Dublin-based Museum. It was not until June
Charles E. Martin & Co, and 1990 that she became the
On her maiden voyage
for the first 20 years of her centrepiece of themed exhibits
from Whitehaven, life was employed primarily about all aspects of naval life
afChapman sailed round on voyages between the UK in the early 17th century at
Cape Horn to Oregon on and Australia. She passed the new Vasa Museum, which
the US west coast. through the hands of several is the most visited museum in
Scandinavian owners, in the Scandinavia.
process being renamed G. D. Near the Vasa Museum is a
Kennedy, but in 1923 was small collection of preserved
acquired by the Swedish Navy vessels, including an icebreaker,
for use as a training ship and a lightship, a lifeboat and
renamed af Chapman. She several small warships. The
has been owned by the City of icebreaker, Sankt Erik, was
Stockholm since 1949. Swedens first, and was built
for the City of Stockholm
17th-century warship at the Finnboda Shipyard in
The jewel in the citys maritime 1915. She was originally named
crown is undoubtedly the Isbrytaren II and powered by
17th-century warship Vasa, two coal-fired triple-expansion
which is preserved ashore in steam engines developing a
her own dedicated museum total of 4,000bhp.

PRESERVED VESSELS
ABOVE Despite concerns about Vasas stability, pressure from Gustav II Adolf led to
Vice Admiral Klas Fleming ordering the ship to sail. WIKIMEDIA-JAVIER KOHEN
Lightship Finngrundet
Finngrundet, or more correctly ice-free part of the year, returning to
Fyrskepp nr 25, dates from 1903 harbour in winter for maintenance. She
and served the Swedish navigation was manned by a crew of eight, and was
authority for more than 60 years. She decommissioned in 1969 after being
was built in Gvle and, unlike British replaced by a fixed, fully automatic,
light vessels, was self-propelled, her unmanned lighthouse tower.
steam engine enabling her to make Finngrundet has been a museum
her own way to station rather than ship in Stockholm since 1970, while
requiring a tow. another former light vessel, Fladen
Generally she remained on her (Fyrskepp Nr 10b dating from 1892),
station at the Finngrund banks in the is in private ownership just opposite
southern Gulf of Bothnia during the at the island of Skeppsholmen.
Although initially employed in1941. During World War

ABOVE In autumn 1995 Sankt Erik made her longest ever voyage, a 52-day round in keeping channels in the II she was engaged in patrol
trip from Stockholm, during which she visited 13 harbours, including Lule in the archipelago ice-free, she was duties defending Swedens
far north of Sweden, and the Norwegian capital, Oslo. lent to the state in hard winters neutrality, and, together with
and later spent much of her her sisters, helped to find and
time assisting shipping in the destroy thousands of mines
Gulf of Bothnia, around the after hostilities had ended.
coast of Skne and elsewhere. She was later used for
A major refit in 1958 saw her training duties and was
converted to burning oil and eventually decommissioned in
the enclosure of her bridge, and 2005. Many of her sisters were
she was renamed Sankt Erik. sold and converted into private
She was decommissioned in yachts, and several can be seen
1977 and has been a museum in and around Stockholm
ship since 1980. today. M20 is maintained in
The rescue vessel Bernhard seagoing condition, as is the
Ingelsson was one of the first torpedo boat Spica (T121),
all-welded steel lifeboats in which celebrates her 50th
Sjrddningssllskapet, the birthday this year. Spica is
ABOVE The former Trinity House flagship Patricia had the honour of conveying Swedish rescue service. She was powered by three Bristol
HM Queen Elizabeth II during three fleet reviews, including one at Spithead in May built by Hammarbyverken in Siddeley Proteus gas turbines
1969 celebrating the 20th anniversary of NATO. Stockholm in 1944, measures giving her a top speed in excess
12.3m by 4.2m, and is of 40 knots, and is owned by
powered by a 60hp Skandia the Foundation T121 Spica.
diesel engine. She served at She is based at the old torpedo
rescue stations at Torekov and boat base on Gl during the
Slvesborg and was bought by winter months, but in summer
the Maritime Museum in 1996. is usually open to the public at
Although owned by the a berth near the Vasa Museum.
Swedish Maritime Museum, Gamla Stan is Stockholms old
the coastal minesweeper M20 centre and is dominated by the
is operated by the veterans royal palace, but the island is also
charity Freningen M 20. She home to the Mlardrottningen
is one of a total of 26 wooden (Queen of Mlaren) floating
M class boats built for the hotel, a vessel whose elegant
Swedish Navy between 1938 lines hint at her fascinating
ABOVE Classrooms and workshops were created within Polfors 54.2m hull, when and 1942 and was built by history. She was built by Krupps
she was converted for her present role as a training ship. Neglingevarvet in Stockholm at Kiel in 1924 as the motor

diesel, giving her a speed
of 10.5 knots. During her
Historic tugs around Stockholm commercial career she was
employed carrying bulk and
Several historic tugs are to be found general cargo from Europe
around Stockholm, including the to the Caribbean and South
106-year-old Vin, which helped America. In 1978 she was
a number of Russian officers to sold to the City of Stockholm,
escape from their homeland during who renamed her Polfors and
the 1917 Revolution. Although built converted her for use as a
as a steam tug, Vin had been training ship. She was sold to
converted to and was in use as an Sjmansskolan in 2000.
officers yacht when she made her A 20-minute ferry ride from
ABOVE Gesar, originally named Neptun. ABOVE Leo was involved with D-Day.
escape to Finland via Lake Saimaa. the city waterfront to Gshaga
BELOW Fritz worked in Gothenborg. She was subsequently converted BELOW Vin worked in timber towing. on the island of Liding is
back to a tug and sailed to her rewarded by the sight of another
present home in Stockholm in 1975. former commercial vessel,
Others include the 1878-built Gesar, Soya III. In the late 1990s the
Fritz and Titan both dating from family-run company Wallenius
1908, and World War II-built former Shipping was looking for a
US Army tugs Leo (ex-ST-748), Tampa suitable vessel to convert to a
(ex-ST-742), and Tiger (ex-ST-749). floating conference centre and
came across a motor yacht which
looked to fit the bill. It was
discovered that she was the very
yacht Vanadis for New York She acted as a Royal Yacht Nearby is Polfors, a 49-year- first ship designed and built for
millionaire C. K. G. Billings during HRH Prince Philips old general cargo ship owned the companys founder, Olof
and, at 240ft in length, was visit to Scandinavia in 1952, by Sjmansskolan, a college Wallenius, in 1934.
at the time the largest diesel- and took part in both the for training prospective Soya III was a 120dwt motor
powered yacht in the world. Coronation Review at Spithead seafarers. She was built tanker built by Lfholmsvarvet
Another American the following year and the in Aarhus as the 299grt at Stockholm, and was employed
entrepreneur, Harrison Silver Jubilee Review in 1977. Mercandan for the Danish carrying vegetable and mineral
Williams, bought her in 1926 Patricia was sold in 1982 and company Mercandia Rederiet, oils in coastal and Baltic traffic.
and renamed her Warrior, but arrived in Stockholm in 1986 had a crew of five, and was Wallenius sold her in 1941, and
three years later she was sold to to take up her present role. powered by a 510hp Alpha she became Tankman. Prior
Frank Hutton, who gifted the
yacht to his daughter Barbara
Hutton, the Woolworth heiress,
on her 18th birthday. Warrior
was requisitioned by the
Royal Navy in June 1940 and
converted to the anti-submarine
yacht HMS Troubadour, later
serving as an accommodation
vessel before being sold to
Norwegian owners in 1948.
Later used as a training ship and
passenger ferry, she was rescued
from the breakers and refitted
in 1982 for her present role as
floating hotel, and is officially
named Lady Hutton.
Lake Mlaren vessels

Immediately to the west of
Gamla Stan, the banks of Lake
Mlaren are lined with many
interesting vessels, including
Patricia and Polfors, to name
but two. Now employed as a
floating restaurant, the former
Trinity House flagship Patricia
was built by Smiths Dock at
Middlesbrough in 1938 as a
buoy and lighthouse tender.
During World War II she took
part in the Dunkirk evacuation
and played an important role
in marking approach channels
for the D-Day landings.

PRESERVED VESSELS
A contrast in styles as the

87-year-old former buoy
tender Orion lies alongside
the former sailing galiot
Svanevik, which was built in
Groningen in 1914 as Anna
Marie for German owners.
to her eventual conversion to a conditioning, and a new galley. every day by a large number of have been converted to diesel
yacht, she served Shell, firstly as Wall and deck coverings and ferries and excursion vessels, propulsion, are maintained in
Shell 8 and later as Shell S 8. furniture were carefully selected but it is the straight stems and first-class order. Blidsund is
Restoration work included in consultation with Mrs funnels and counter sterns one of two particularly special
repairs to the vessels steelwork, Margareta Wallenius-Kleberg to of the vintage White Swans passenger ships, each operated
installation of a new 390shp fit the vessel for her new role. which mostly catch the eye. by single ship companies,
Volvo Penta diesel engine, It is now 82 years since Soya These elderly ships, some of which not only remain in daily
and the fitting of modern III was launched as the first which retain their original service but also retain their
navigation equipment, air new ship for Olof Wallenius. steam machinery while others coal-fired boilers. She was
Who says theres no room for
sentiment in shipping?
Just five years after taking At Skeppsholmen in the
delivery of Soya III, Olof Wallenius heart of Stockholm lies Orion,
returned her to her builders to
a former hydrographic and
be lengthened by 5m to increase
inspection vessel and buoy
her cargo capacity.
tender dating from 1929. She
was built in Helsingborg and
has a single a coal-fired boiler,
together with seven steam
engines, all of which are still in
mint condition. Apart from the
compound main engine, steam
engines operate generators,
pumps, and the anchor capstan.
Orion served the Swedish
pilotage service until 1956, ABOVE Still powered by her original steam engine, Mariefred has been in service
when she was placed in reserve, since 1903 without interruption on the Stockholm-Enhrna-Mariefred route.
but five years later she was
lengthened and rebuilt for use
as a lighthouse construction
vessel for the new Swedish
National Administration of
Shipping and Navigation.
She was eventually paid off
in 1979 and sold, and, after a
failed attempt to operate her
as a coastal cruise ship, she
was rescued and underwent a
lengthy restoration programme
to become a museum ship.
Excursion vessels
The waters in and around ABOVE Blidsund was built to operate a regular passenger service between
Stockholm are criss-crossed Stockholm and Blid, a service she maintained for half a century.

ABOVE At 658gt, Stockholm is the largest passenger ship employed within the ABOVE Prins Carl Philip was built as a passenger steamer by Hillersj ngbts AB
archipelago and can use either two diesels or her original steam machinery. in 1901, but was converted to diesel propulsion in 1978.
built by Eriksbergs Mekaniska near sister Storskr (1908), but Prins Carl Philip (1901), old-fashioned layouts are in
Verkstad in Gteborg in which, at 13 knots, held the Waxholm III (1903), stan-I pleasant contrast to the plastic
1911 and operates both day record of being the fastest (1906), Angantyr (1909), and metal of todays ships. The
excursions and evening music steamer in the archipelago Enkping (1868), Gustaf III feeling of being in a different
cruises eastwards from the city for most of her life, together and Gustafsberg VII (both world is amplified by the
around parts of the archipelago. with the 1900-built Vstan, 1912) are diesel conversions. fact that several of the ships
Meanwhile, Mariefred, a 1903 which was converted to diesel So also are their two elderly masters appear themselves to be
product of William Lindbergs propulsion in 1953. double-enders, Djurgrden 4 a throwback to an earlier era
Verkstads- och Varfs AB in A white anchor on a red and Djurgrden 7, dating from their uniforms are not dissimilar
Stockholm, runs a service across band adorns the black funnels 1897 and 1893 respectively. to those worn in the early part
Lake Mlaren to her namesake of Angfartygs AB Stromma A further three vintage of the century, and some sport
town from a terminal near Kanals large fleet. Their double-enders are operated by side-whiskers of which their
Stockholm city hall. 1909-built Drottningholm and Rederi AB Stockholms Strm: seagoing forebears would have
Waxholms Angfartygs flagship Stockholm dating from Stockholms Strm 1 (1902), been proud.
operates the triple-expansion 1931 remain steam-powered, Stockholms Strm 2 (1894), and There are so many historic
steamers Norrskr (1909) and Stockholms Strm 3 (1907). and interesting vessels in and
The condition of all the around Stockholm that those
ships is remarkably good, mentioned above represent just
and to step aboard one is like a small proportion of the total.
Storskr, which was originally named
stepping back in time. Their Even a short visit is worthwhile,
Strngns Express, took her present
polished wood interiors and however, but if you have time
name in 1939, when she was purchased
to spend longer you will be
by Waxholms Nya ngfartygs AB.
amply rewarded.

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Once were Kings
Roy Fenton looks back at the notable ships
and personalities associated with King Line, a
significant and successful tramping company.
K
ing Line could be brother Alfred Philipps, who
considered one of was due to join Philipps in
the aristocrats of managing the new ship, but
the tramp trade. who drowned in August 1889.
It was founded The steamer entered service
by one of the most influential, in September, with a master
if controversial, men in 20th who had taken a minor
century shipping, and it ended its shareholding in the King Alfred
days as an adjunct to some of the Steamship Co. King Alfred
most successful British cargo lines. was nothing special: a 1,189gt
Tramp shipping was the tramp with a three-island layout
obvious entry point for any of forecastle, bridge deck and
aspiring ship owner, as there poop, and propelled by a triple
was nearly always demand for expansion engine which would ABOVE The ungainly stern of King Bleddyn (3) identifies her as one of the wartime
carrying coal outwards from give her ten knots on a good N type prefabricated ships. AUTHORS COLLECTION
Cardiff or Newcastle and day. If anything she was slightly
bringing home grain from the anachronistic, with iron frames
Black Sea or South America. and decks upon which lay steel
Financing the first ship plating. Most builders had
would always be tricky, but if by then gone over to all-steel
successful in obtaining charters, construction, which, although
the entrepreneurs growing more expensive than iron, was
reputation would quickly lighter strength-for-strength.
ensure that further flotations King Alfred tramped
were well-subscribed. successfully enough for Philipps
This was the route taken by to begin to expand, renaming
Owen Cosby Philipps (1863- the company King Line Ltd.
1937), who began work for Management of King Line
shipbrokers in Newcastle and, was shared with brother John
after moving to Glasgow, Wynford Philipps, a financier
registered the King Alfred who invested heavily in South ABOVE Part of the expansion plans of the 1900s, King Lud (1) of 1906 loading coal
Steamship Co Ltd in 1889 America. His interests included at Penarth. AUTHORS COLLECTION
when aged just 26. There were the Buenos Aires and Pacific
just 50 shares of 250 each, Railway Co Ltd, which just
taken up by family, friends and happened to import much of its
business associates in Glasgow locomotive coal in King Line
and London. Philipps had ships. Access to investment
already ordered a ship from the trusts largely controlled by
Blyth Shipbuilding Co Ltd, brother John was instrumental
which was duly named King in Owens expansion, including
Alfred. Alan Mallett, who has the flotation of King Line.
researched Philipps career, However, no sooner had
speculates that the name was expansion of King Line begun
chosen in honour of younger with the delivery of King

CLASSIC CARGO SHIPS
King Gruffyd (2) of 1919 was one of

five ships built by the Hong Kong and
Whampoa Dock Co Ltd acquired by
King Line in 1923. AUTHORS COLLECTION
Bleddyn in 1894 than King Trading successfully through that was as anachronistic as its Alan Mallett recording that no
Alfred was wrecked on South the remaining 1890s, King then fleet. However, Philipps fewer than 30 shipbuilders were
Uist, homeward bound to Lines dividends were excellent, was up to the task not only asked to tender for ten ships.
eastern Scotland with phosphates enabling further ships to be built. of modernising the fleet but These were financed by raising
from the USA. In finding a also vastly expanding Royal 100,000 with a new share issue.
replacement, John Philipps Philipps rise Mails holding in other major These ships, which comprised
business connections helped: The word ambitious is much shipping lines, including Elder, the nucleus of the King Line
the owners of the relatively new too modest to describe Owen Dempster, Glen and Shire fleet in 1914, suffered heavily
steamer Auriga had defaulted on Philipps. During his first full Lines, Pacific Steam, Lamport in World War I. King Lud
payment to an investment trust, decade of managing King Line, and Holt and Union-Castle. was captured and sunk by
and, using his influence, John he set up a shipping investment But King Line was not the German cruiser Emden in
secured the ship for King Line, company, became involved neglected, and a major building September 1914. King Malcolm,
renaming her King Cadwallon. in a Thameside oil storage programme was begun in 1905, King Bleddyn, King Frederick
King Alfred apart, names operation, and took over an
of Welsh kings were initially existing shipping company,
favoured, reflecting the Philipps the Northern Transport Co.
family origins in Wales. However, In 1903, just 14 years after
the Cambrian connection did first becoming a ship owner,
not deter Philipps from floating he was awarded the major
a further single-ship company, prize of chairmanship of one
entitled the Scottish Steamship of the oldest British shipping
Co Ltd, to woo Scottish companies, the Royal Mail
investors. It financed King Steam Packet Company.
Edgar, completed at Sunderland The chairmanship could have
in 1896. Somewhat ironically, been a poisoned chalice, as
Owen Philipps had, about a the company was run in a way
year previously, moved King
Lines head office to London. ABOVE King David (3) had been built at Bremen in 1912 as Gundomar and seized as
reparations after World War I. AUTHORS COLLECTION
LEFT An early King Line

acquisition, King Cadwallon (2)
of 1900, wrecked on the Scilly
Isles on 22 July 1906. GIBSON
ABOVE The Monitor type King Malcolm (2) of 1925 helped prove the practicality of
the motor tramp. SHIPS IN FOCUS

ABOVE King Edgar (2) was one of the first conventional King Line motor ships.
ABOVE Last conventional tramp

delivered to King Line was King
service, King James remaining
Henry, seen in Clan Line colours. REAL
with King Line for 25 years
PHOTOGRAPHS
and ten years with her Greek
owner. She certainly more than
King Line investing in its first justified Kylsants faith in diesel
motor ships in 1925, King power, and from 1927 King
James and King Malcolm. Line were to order nothing
Not only was their machinery but motor ships, albeit with
relatively novel, but they conventional hulls, beginning
also featured an innovative with King Edgar, delivered from
corrugated hull form, Belfast in November 1927.
supposed to improve economy Their economy in operation
by channelling water to the is credited with helping King
propellor. These ships, dubbed Line survive the lean trading
ABOVE The first post-war delivery was King Malcolm (3), completed at Belfast in the Monitor type, were conditions of the late 1920s and
1952. FOTOFLITE INCORPORATING SKYFOTOS ordered not by King Line, but 1930s, when a number of tramp
by a William Petersen, who companies went to the wall.
and King David all fell victim emerged from World War I had been a proponent of the Lord Kylsants career came
to German or Austrian U-boats with handsome profits, its novel but highly successful to an ignominious end in
in a period of just nine months immediate fleet replacement Turret design from Doxfords. 1931. The great combine that
in late 1916 and 1917. programme was relatively Petersen died before the ships comprised the Royal Mail
conservative. Two standard were completed by D. and W. Group struggled once the post-
New managers ships were bought from the Henderson and Co, and King war shipping boom had blown
With his record in revitalising Shipping Controller, becoming Line got them for a bargain itself out. Its financial position
Royal Mail Steam Packet King Alfred and King Bleddyn, 25,000 each quite possibly was not helped by Kylsants
and various services to the plus one former German ship because Kylsant was now a continuing urge to extend his
British Government in peace taken over as war reparations, director of the shipbuilders empire even further, for instance
and wartime, Owen Philipps which was renamed King parent, Harland Wolff. by acquiring the once-prestigious
rise seemed unstoppable. In David. But in 1923 five In practice, the corrugated White Star Line. Various
1923 he was given a peerage, ships ordered by the British hull form did not deliver the accountancy devices were used
choosing as his title Lord Government in Hong Kong economies expected for a ship to obscure the very real financial
Kylsant of Carmarthen, harking were acquired, undoubtedly at that could do barely ten knots. problems of the Group, but
back almost 1,000 years to when bargain prices, all having been Still, once problems with the it all unravelled, with Kylsant
an ancestor had awarded himself initially acquired by Greek Harland & Wolff diesels were himself being convicted on
the title Lord of Kylsant. owner N. E. Ambatielos, who sorted out, they both gave good a charge of issuing a false
Although Philipps remained had defaulted on payment.
Chairman, King Line was
placed under other managers, King Line motor ships
Dodd, Thomson and Co Kylsant was a keen proponent
succeeding Philipps, Philipps of the motor ship. It promised
and Co in 1923. Of the new benefits not only in terms of
principals, George Dodd had reduced fuel and manning
met Owen Philipps early in his costs, but also improved a
career, and worked closely with ships cargo carrying capacity,
him in managing the steamers as oil fuel could be stored in
of the Buenos Aires and Pacific otherwise dead spaces. But the
Railway Co. Vernon Thomson, marine diesel engine was not
the other partner in the new yet as reliable as the well-proven
management, was also a trusted triple-expansion steam engine, a
associate, beginning as an problem compounded by a lack
office boy but rapidly rising to of competent diesel engineers
become a director of King Line. in the British merchant fleet.
Although King Line had Kylsants enthusiasm saw

CLASSIC CARGO SHIPS
shots. Indeed, King Line found they were ever going to be

itself increasingly becoming tramps must be in doubt: the
an adjunct to Clan Line, and Greenock yard had a limited
several of its general cargo ships building capacity, which was
appeared in Clan colours. usually completely taken up
No conventional tramps with orders for cargo liners.
were added to the King Line Dating the end of King Line
fleet after King Henry of 1958, is slightly problematic, but it
but ten years later British can be tentatively put at 1977,
and Commonwealth became when the bulker King Alfred
interested in bulk carriers, and was transferred to another
six were built for ownership by British and Commonwealth
King Line Ltd. For reasons of subsidiary, only leaving the
tax efficiency, King Line tramps Group in 1983. Over its 88
were transferred to Clan Line, years of existence King Line had
and some of the latters cargo prospered, survived both the
liners to King Line. inter-war depression and the
prospectus, and subsequently 1942, and King Edgar in One quirk was the ordering imprisonment of its chairman,
serving a prison sentence. March 1945. by King Line early in 1961 of and gone on to become a useful
Before this he had resigned With Vernon Thomsons three ships described as cargo/ part of a major British shipping
all his many chairmanships, foot in two camps, it was tramp types. To be built by group. Its ships certainly were
including that of King Line, hardly surprising that an offer Greenock Dockyard, these were once kings, and its two chairmen
which continued under the very for King Line was made by named King Canute, King ranked amongst the aristocracy
capable leadership of Sir Vernon Union-Castle Mail Steamship Harold and King Edward, only of British shipping.
Thomson. Indeed, Thomsons Co Ltd in 1948, which was the last of the three having Acknowledgements This article
abilities were recognised when, duly accepted. King Line under been used before. However, draws on two important works: Idyll
in the wake of the Royal Dodd, Thomson management it was soon decided that what of the Kings by Alan S. Mallett, and
Mail Group collapse, he was continued as a separate entity, was needed were developments A Business of National Importance
offered a directorship of a using rather conservatively of the Clan Fergusson class, by Edwin Green and Michael
reconstructed Union-Castle coloured yellow funnels with and the trio emerged as 16- Moss. Alan Malletts book is highly
Line, becoming its Chairman. black tops on its ships. New knot cargo liners named Clan recommended: a masterly blend of
motor ships continued to be Macgillivray, Clan Macgregor research drawing on minute books,
World War II and after delivered from Harland & and Clan Macgowan. Whether journals and personal reminiscences.
The King Line fleet and its Wolff, supplemented by the
crews suffered as grievously in odd second-hand steamer,
World War II as in the earlier including Union-Castles war-
conflict. Of its motor ships, built Braemar Castle, which
King Egbert was mined in became King James in 1950.
November 1939, King John Although something of an
sunk by the German raider icon amongst liner companies,
Widder in July 1940, and Union-Castle itself was not
King Edwin gutted by fire immune from take-overs.
at Malta in April 1943. Four The formation of the British
more were victims of torpedo and Commonwealth Group
attacks by German or Japanese was presented as a merger of
submarines, King Malcolm in Union-Castle with Clan Line,
1941, King Lud in June 1942, but the latter was the stronger
King Arthur in November partner, and tended to call the
ABOVE When British and Commonwealth invested in bulk carriers, they were
placed in the King Line fleet. This is the first, King Alfred (4), in the Thames.
One result of the takeover of
LAURENCE DUNN
King Line by Union-Castle in
1948 was the transfer of the
former of Braemar Castle,
which became King James (2),
one of the few steamers in the
post-war fleet. J.Y. FREEMAN
ABOVE What might have been one of the last Kings. When ordered, the ship
which became Clan Macgillivray was intended to be named King Canute.

Ferries to the
Faroes and Iceland
Passenger shipping connections from the Faroe Islands, a self-governing part of Denmark
located in the North Atlantic, and Iceland have primarily existed to link the islands to Denmark.
However, linking to the United Kingdom has often been of equal importance. Kalle Id looks at the
ships that connected the Faroes and Iceland, with emphasis on services to UK ports.
U
ntil 1856, DADD soon faced financial state concession to operate Sknska ngfartyg in 1899.
shipping difficulties and in 1866 merged the services to the Faroes and Vesta was kept on services to
connections with three other Danish Iceland in 1897, additional Iceland, and was joined by
to the Faroe shipping companies to form tonnage was required, and so another former Sknska ship,
Islands and Det Forenede Dampskibs- Skalholt and Holar, two former Ceres (1883/1,166gt, 117
Iceland (both belonging Selskab (the United Steamship Norwegian steamers, were passengers). The number of
to Denmark at the time) Company), better known acquired in 1898. In addition ships on the service rose to six
were a crown monopoly. as DFDS. By this time, the to the Denmark-UK-Faroes- in 1904 with the acquisition of
The first privately-owned Faroes/Iceland service included Iceland service, they sailed on Tjaldur (ex-Vega, 1898/795gt,
operator on these routes was an intermediate call at Granton. Icelandic coastal routes. 353 passengers). Not only
Det Almindelige Danske Between 1870 and 1876 the In the same year, DFDS was the ship named after the
Dampskibsselskab (The service was again operated by faced competition on the Faroese national bird (the
General Danish Steamship the Danish state, and then Faroes/Iceland services from Eurasian oystercatcher), but the
Company, DADD for short). reverted to DFDS again. the Sweden-based Sknska name is in the Faroese language.
Their Arcturus, sailing on In 1882 DFDS took delivery ngfartygs AB, which started In Danish the same bird is
the Copenhagen-Trshavn- of their first purpose-built their own service with the known as the strandskade.
Reykjavik line from 1857, was liner for the Faroes service, the 1879-built Vesta (1,122gt, The long-serving Laura
the first steamer to serve the 1,068gt 120-passenger Laura. 92 passengers). This was was wrecked off the Icelandic
Faroes and Iceland. When the company won a new short-lived, as DFDS bought coast in 1910, fortunately

FERRY SERVICES
The 2003-built Norrna (2) is the only ferry currently
serving the Faroe Islands and Iceland. She is seen at
Trshavn, Faroe Islands. KALLE ID
without loss of life. She had were severe losses among the
made 204 return voyages to ships serving the Faroes and
Iceland during her 28 years in Iceland: Christianssund sank
service. As a replacement, the in 1916, Holar was withdrawn
1891-built Botnia was rebuilt in 1917, while both Vesta and
for the Faroes/Iceland services; Ceres were also lost. Thus DFDS
this 1,206gt ship could carry post-war Faroes/Iceland fleet
171 passengers. consisted of Botnia, Tjaldur (1)
Around the same time, and Island.
competitors again emerged for Between 1918 and 1920
DFDS services. Det Bergenske Botnia sailed to the islands
Dampskibsselskab (Bergen via Bergen, while the other
Line) had initiated a Norway- two ships retained the stop at
Faroes-Iceland service in 1908, Granton. From 1921 some
followed by AS Thores services departures sailed further north
from Denmark in 1910. to Greenland, another Danish ABOVE DFDS Trondhjem briefly operated a passenger service from the Faroe
Neither competed with DFDS dominion. In 1922 Tjaldur (1) Islands to the UK, from 1952 to 1955, but she carried only 24 passengers.
on the services via the UK, was moved to other services, BRUCEPETER COLLECTION
however. Iceland, meanwhile, being replaced by the 1915-built
got its own shipping company Sleipner (1,076gt, 59 passengers),
in the form of Eimskipaflag which sailed only on the
slands (Eimskip) in 1914, but Trshavn-Granton-Copenhagen
the extent of the companys route, omitting the extension
passenger services at that time to Iceland. The name Tjaldur
is not known. soon returned to Faroes services,
DFDS withdrew the elderly when Faroes-based Skipafelagi
Skalholt in 1914, but two Froyar gave the name to their
additional vessels were brought new passenger ship on a direct
onto the services to Faroes Trshavn-Copenhagen service.
and Iceland the next year: the To add to the confusion, DFDS
1912-built Christianssund Tjaldur (1) briefly returned to
(1,017gt, 76 passengers) and the Faroes in 1926.
the brand new Island (1,774gt, DFDS took delivery of their
155 passengers). last new ship for the Faroes/ ABOVE The paddle steamer Vesta originally sailed from Denmark to the Faroes
Although Denmark did not Iceland services in 1927, and Iceland under the ownership of Sknska ngfartygs AB. She is seen later in
her career in DFDS colours. BRUCE PETER COLLECTION
participate in World War I, there Dronning Alexandrine, a

ABOVE Smyril Lines first Norrna, a former Sweden-West Germany ferry, laid 1,854gt and 153-passenger and Iceland. After Island sank
up at Esbjerg after being renamed Norrna I, following the delivery of the new vessel. Following her arrival, on the Scottish coast in 1937,
purpose-built Norrna. MARKO STAMPEHL the services to the Faroes were without loss of life, Dronning
reorganised: she and Sleipner Alexandrine remained the
served the long Copenhagen- sole ship on the route until
Granton-Trshavn-Vestmanna- the outbreak of World War II
Reykjavik route, while Island brought disruption to services.
and Botnia were used on a While both DFDS and
new service with the southern Skipafelagi Froyar reinstated
terminus at Granton. passenger services after 1945,
Botnia was scrapped at the neither included calls at any UK
end of the 1934 season and ports. A UK-Iceland service
was replaced by the elderly was restored in 1950, when
Primula (1896/1,524gt, 257 Eimskip took delivery of the
passengers). However, by this new passenger liner Gullfoss
point there was no need for (3,858gt, 209 passengers),
four passenger liners on the which was placed on a
routes, and from 1936 only Copenhagen-Leith-Reykjavik
Dronning Alexandrine and service. In 1944 Iceland
Island served the Faroe Islands had become independent
ABOVE Island was purpose-built for the Faroes and Iceland trade at Helsingr
(Elsinore). BRUCE PETER COLLECTION
The new Norrna was designed with

ABOVE Smyril was acquired for internal services within the Faroe Islands, but also a relatively short and beamy hull to
initiated car passenger ferry services from the islands to the UK and Norway. She meet the restrictions of Trshavn
is seen here at Aberdeen in 1993. IAN BOYLE harbour. KALLE ID

FERRY SERVICES
NORRNA (1) passengers, 135 cars). While

BUILT 1973, Nobiskrug,
she was primarily used on intra-
Rendsburg, as
Faroes services, she maintained
Gustav Vasa, summer services from the
delivered to Lion islands to Denmark, Norway,
Ferry AB, Halmstad Iceland and Aberdeen.
DIMENSIONS 128.82m x 20.82m x
Two new services appeared
4.93m in 1983: the short-lived
Iceland-based Farskip ran the
TONNAGE 12,159gt, 4,211dwt
1972-built Edda (ex-Aallotar,
MAIN ENGINES Four Stork
Rogalin; 7,801gt, 1,000
Werkspoor 6TM410
passengers, 170 cars) from
diesels
Bremerhaven to Reykjavik via
CAPACITY 1,040 passengers,
Newcastle. And the Faroes- ABOVE The Copenhagen-built Gullfoss was the flagship of recently-independent
250 cars
based Smyril Line ran the Iceland, providing a lifeline service to the rest of the world. IAN BOYLE COLLECTION
CAREER Later renamed 1973-built Norrna (ex-
Logos Hope;
Gustaf Vasa; 7,457gt, 1,040 Swedens Figura. She carries season Smyril Line ceased both
2011transferred
passengers, 250 cars) from 1,482 passengers, and has the service to Scrabster and that
to Malta flag,
Trshavn to Seyisfjrur 1,870 lane metres, or 634 cars. to Bergen, concentrating solely
homeport Valletta
(Iceland), Bergen, and Acquiring the new Norrna on the Hirtshals-Trshavn-
from Denmark. A service Hanstholm (Denmark), the put the company into financial Seyisfjrur route.
from the UK to the Faroes latter via Lerwick. From difficulties. High harbour fees In Spring 2014 the Shetland
was reinstated in 1952 with Lerwick, passengers could reach at Lerwick, combined with the Islands Council and Smyril Line
DFDS Trondhjem, but she Scotland using P&O Ferries. new Aberdeen-Lerwick operator looked at reestablishing the
carried only24 passengers and Icelands UK connection Northlinks reluctance to sell calls at Lerwick, but nothing
the service was discontinued was broken in 1993, when combined Aberdeen-Lerwick- came of the discussions. Thus
afterjust three years. Smyril Line removed Lerwick Trshavn/Seyisfjrur tickets, the only place from which a
Eimskip withdrew Gullfoss from the Norrnas route. But led to Smyril Line again passenger ship connection to
in 1973 without a replacement Strandfaraskip Landsins Smyril abandoning the call at Lerwick the Faroe Islands and Iceland is
passenger vessel. In 1974 the continued providing Trshavn- in 2006, despite protests from available today is Denmark, as
Faroe Islands entered the car- Aberdeen services until 1996, the Shetlands Development the links of the past prove to be
ferry era, when DFDS moved at which point the Faroes too Trust, who had helped to no longer viable.
their 1964-built England to lost their UK link. However, finance Norrna.
the Esbjerg-Trshavn route both Icelands and the Faroes In place of the Lerwick calls, NORRNA (2)
(which was primarily operated UK link was restored in 1998, Norrna (2) made dedicated ROUTE Hirtshals, Denmark to
by second-hand passenger when Smyril Line reinstated the Trshavn-Scrabster sailings, Trshavn, Faroe Is and
liners from DFDS Denmark- call at Lerwick. interspersed with the pre- Seyisfjrur, Iceland
UK services). In 1975 In 2003 Norrna (1) was existing sailings to Denmark, BUILT 2003, Lbeck, Germany
Strandfaraskip Landsins, the replaced by a larger new vessel, Norway and Iceland. While
DIMENSIONS 165m x 30m
Faroese company responsible also named Norrna (2). The the Scrabster sailings proved
TONNAGE 35,966gt
for local traffic on the islands, new vessel was built in Lbeck relatively popular, they were
acquired their first car- to designs produced by Knud difficult to satisfactorily include MAIN Four 6-cylinder MaK 43
passenger ferry, Smyril (ex- E. Hansen A/S of Denmark, in the existing schedules. Thus, ENGINES engines, total 30,000hp
Morten Mols; 2,430gt, 800 and the interiors were by at the end of the 2008 summer SPEED 21 knots
CAPACITY 1,482 passengers,
118 crew, 1,870 lane
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A busy scene in the Geirangerfjord the 2015-built cargo vessel Arklow the well-known excursion paddler
on 14 June. Hurtigrutens Nordkapp Vale (2,999gt) passing irlam along the Waverley storming down the thames
leads the way, with Horizonof Manchester Ship Canal on 5 August, on 13 June, with some of Londons
Croisires de France not far astern heading for Ellesmere Port. the famous landmarks forming the
as Fjord1s Veoy nips through to Netherlands-flagged vessel, built by backdrop. Built in 1946 by A. & J.
her ro-to berth in Geiranger on Royal Bodewes at Hoogezand, has inglis, Glasgow, Waverley has been
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November 2011 underwent a 90 million refurbishment. Two new half-decks were added as part of the work, and gross tonnage went up from 53,000 to
56,769. After the refurbishing, the ship was renamed Costa neoRomantica. Magnus Budge

General Steam Navigations ABOVE In the early days of World War
II, Queen of the Channel (1,162grt)
was used to evacuate children from
Three Little Liners

London to the Essex coast. Built in
1935, she was the first diesel-engined
excursion ship on the Thames. During
the Dunkirk evacuation, she made one
trip, returning with 950 troops on 28
David Toy recalls the post-war careers of the Thames excursion ships Queen May 1940; a string of bombs hit her;
she broke her back and was lost.
of the Channel, Royal Daffodil and Royal Sovereign, operated by the General
Steam Navigation Company.
A
t the end of World Medway Co), of 1,162 tons;
War II, when travel Royal Sovereign (1937), of 1,527
restrictions were tons; and Royal Daffodil (1939),
lifted, there was of 2,060 tons. They were of a
a demand for the sleek design, painted in white
return of the day excursions with yellow funnels, and their
from London to the south twin screws were driven by
coast. Before the war General Sulzer two-stroke engines.
Steam Navigation had operated The war took its toll on
such excursions using their three the three ships. Queen of the
diesel-engined pleasure ships, Channel was lost at Dunkirk
which worked from the Thames, in June 1940, Royal Daffodil
Kent and Essex coasts in was damaged by a bomb, also
conjunction with the companys during the evacuation, and later
paddle steamers. Some day in 1940 Royal Sovereign was
excursions went as far as Calais, lost in the Bristol Channel after ABOVE The second of the diesel-engined excursion ships, Royal Sovereign
Boulogne and Ostend. striking a mine. Royal Daffodil (1,527grt), entered service in 1937 and was slightly larger than her sistership.
The three ships were built by made several trips to Dunkirk She was lost in December 1940 after striking a mine in the Bristol Channel. Royal
William Denny of Dumbarton: under Captain G. Johnson, Sovereign made six voyages to Dunkirk and brought back a total of 11,500 troops.
Queen of the Channel in 1935 and brought more than 8,500 She was photographed at Tower Pier early in her career, not carrying any house
(originally ordered by the New troops back from France. flag on her funnel, as was the case during the pre-1939 era.

EXCURSION SHIPS
ABOVE Royal Sovereign (1937) arriving at Tower Pier with her decks busy. ABOVE Royal Sovereign at the Medway Barge Race in 1960 during a charter.
three generating sets produced

The third and largest of the three electrical power. Larger than her
ships was Royal Daffodil (2,061grt), predecessor at 1,851 tons, the
which entered service in 1939. She new ship had improvements and
had a very short first season before could carry 1,910 passengers.
the war. She was refitted after The two dining rooms had
her war service and returned to accommodation for 96 forward
excursion duties in 1947. This post- and 140 aft, and offered a high
war photo shows her with the GSNC class of cuisine. At the bow
house flag on her funnels. was an enclosed observation
lounge. The funnel, shorter
than that on her predecessor,
carried the GSNC house flag.
The ship was based in the
Pool of London and operated
from Tower Pier to Margate,
Southend and a Channel cruise.
The second new ship, Queen
of the Channel, was launched
on 2 February 1949 and
delivered on 25 May. She was
smaller than Royal Sovereign
at 1,471 tons and had two
eight-cylinder 1,500hp Sulzer
two-stroke engines, which gave
On her last trip, she was The new ships Sovereign, was launched on 7 a top speed of 18.75 knots.
damaged below the waterline At the end of the war it was May 1948 and completed her Queen of the Channel had an
by a delayed-action bomb, left to the paddle steamers to maiden voyage on 24 July. She open observation lounge and
which went though the deck start General Steams summer was powered by two Sulzer two restaurants, with capacity
and out through the hull. Water service on the Thames. Royal two-stroke 12-cylinder diesels, for 1,536 passengers. The ship
started to enter into the engine Daffodil, having been released each producing 2,250hp to give carried the New Medway house
room, and beds were used to from military service, was a top speed of 20.48 knots, and flag on her funnel until 1954.
plug the hole, while fuel oil was reconverted for peacetime
transferred from the portside work, but, as the Kent coast
tank to the starboard tank. The was popular with large Recollections
port lifeboats were also swung numbers of people, coached David Toy has a personal connection
out to help reduce her list. With from London to Margate and to the three Little Liners. He recalls:
excellent seamanship shown by Ramsgate, General Steam In 1953 my late father joined Royal
her crew, Royal Daffodil reached ordered two ships to replace the Sovereign as its Third Engineer on
Ramsgate safely and was later war losses and take advantage the Tower Pier services. The ships had
berthed for temporary repairs. of the burgeoning London four engineering and one electrical
From 1941 to 1944 Royal market. These entered service officer as, unlike on modern ships,
Daffodil operated the Stranraer shortly after Royal Daffodil the engine controls were within the
to Larne military crossing, returned to service in 1947, engine room. In 1960 he moved to
carrying over two million operating from Gravesend to Queen of the Channel as Second
services personnel between the Margate andRamsgate, with a ABOVE The authors late father Engineer and spent his time on the
two ports during that time. In cruise offthe French coast. (onright) when he was Second cross-Channel services from the Kent
1945 she operated from Dover The new ships were built by Engineer ofQueen of the Channel. and Essex coasts.
to France as a troop transport. William Denny. The first, Royal

Queen of the Channel, pictured Queen oF the channel
in her early years with the Invicta launched 25.2.1949
emblem, entered service in 1949 Built William Denny,
and carried the New Medway Dumbarton
house flag on her funnel until SiZe 271ft 10in x 44ft
1954; she started her career on
tonnage 1,471grt
the London River and later moved
to the cross-Channel services. Main engineS Two eight-cylinder
1,500bhp Sulzer
two-stroke diesels
PaSSengeRS Up to 1,536
to half of their normal capacity.

Royal Sovereign each year
attended the prize-giving
at the Officers Training
Ship Worcester. Berthed at
Greenhithe, she brought the
families from Tower Pier to
the ship. She would return
to Tower Pier after the prize-
giving with the families and
cadets. She also attended the
For a short time during Tower Pier-Kent coast services. During the winter Queen annual Medway and Thames
the 1950 season Queen of In 1947 the small motor ship of the Channel was berthed at barge races. Another notable
the Channel operated from Crested Eagle (247 tons), a Rochester and Royal Sovereign event came in May 1954, when
Ramsgate, calling at Dover on second-hand purchase, entered and Royal Daffodil were either Royal Sovereign was anchored
a five-hour channel cruise. She service operating cruises in at Deptford or in the West near Tower Bridge with GSNC
was later moved back to Tower the Port of London Authority. India Docks. Maintenance senior staff and families to
Pier to operate the Kent Coast There were two more ships was carried out on the ships watch the Queen return from a
services with Royal Daffodil operated by the New Medway when they were laid-up, and world tour on Britannia.
and Royal Sovereign. subsidiary company: the paddle they were repainted ready for Royal Daffodil was also
In the early 1950s the Kent steamer Medway Queen (315 the next season. The Chief hired in 1954 by the Municipal
coast services from London tons) and the converted landing Engineer stayed with the ships Passenger Transport Association
carried large numbers of craft Rochester Queen (345 throughout the winter period. as part of their Southend
passengers, who enjoyed the tons). Both worked from Strood conference. She took delegates,
facilities, which included a to the Kent coast resorts. Charters including General Managers,
high standard of dining, as The summer season, during As well as their usual work, the Councillors, Trade Press and
wellas fine views of the Thames which the ships earned their ships were often chartered for representatives from the bus
and its shipping, especially at keep, was short, and usually corporate and special sailing manufacturers and their wives,
Tilbury where, in the 1950s, ran from May to the second events. Royal Daffodil and on a trip from Southend to the
the landing stage was visited week in September. By the Royal Sovereign were both at new Isle of Grain oil refinery.
bymany large liners. These early 1950s there was an the Spithead Fleet Review on The ladies were entertained by
were General Steams finest over-capacity of ships, and the 15 June 1953, and General an on-board fashion show.
days on the Thames. paddle steamers Royal and Steam offered a memorable day In September 1957 Royal
In the late 1940s General Golden Eagle were withdrawn for 12 12s, which included Sovereign hosted ITVs
Steam still had two paddle and laid up at Upnor Reach, a train from London to second anniversary party,
steamers in service: Royal Eagle eventually being scrapped. Southampton and back, lunch at which personalities from
(1,538 tons) built in 1932, and and evening meals on board, both television and film were
the 1909-built Golden Eagle and viewing the fleet and the present. This reflected the high
(793 tons), both working the firework display. For passenger standards of General Steams
comfort, the ships were booked chartered sailings.
The new post-war Royal Sovereign End of the Little Liners
(1,851grt) entered service in 1948 and
During the late 1950s and
soon became popular on the London
early 1960s the three ships kept
to the south coast excursions. She
had an enclosed observation lounge, Royal SoveReign
and is seen arriving at Southend in
launched 7.5.1948
July 1950.
Built William Denny,
Dumbarton
SiZe 288ft x 53ft 3in
tonnage 1,851grt
Main engineS Two 12-cylinder
2,250bhp Sulzer
two-stroke diesels
PaSSengeRS Up to 1,910
Fate Sold 1967 to
Townsend Thoresen

EXCURSION SHIPS
Popular excursion routes

In 1954 the Government allowed Ramsgate on Sundays, Tuesdays,
day excursions to the continent Wednesdays and Thursdays to Calais
for passengers holding passports, or Boulogne, and from Clacton-on-
allowing GSNC to restart the Sea on Fridays and Saturdays.
continental services that had ceased From Gravesend Royal Daffodil went
during the war. At weekends Royal to Southend and then to Boulogne on
Daffodil operated a new service Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays,
from Gravesend and Southend to and to Calais on Wednesdays. On
Boulogne; the cost from Southend Mondays and Tuesdays an extra call at
was 50 shillings (2.50). Margate was included during a non-
In 1955 the requirement for day landing service with a French coast
trips to the continent was relaxed, cruise. Royal Sovereign operated
and only an identity card with a from Tower Pier to the Kent and
ABOVE The three ships were fitted with Sulzer diesel engines: Royal Daffodil and photo was needed. These trips Essex coast, with stops at Margate
the post-war Royal Sovereign had two 12-cylinder units and Queen of the Channel were marketed as No-Passport Day and Southend with a sea cruise.
two eight-cylinder engines. This is the lower level of Royal Sovereigns engine room. Excursions, and an extra trip was The three ships only operated six
operated on Wednesdays. days a week and had one off-service
In 1956 the number of such trips day: Queen of the Channel did not
was increased to ten a week, operated operated on Mondays, while neither
by Royal Daffodil and Queen of the Royal Daffodil nor Royal Sovereign
Channel. The latter operated from were used on Fridays.
ABOVE The GSNC excursion services ceased trading in 1966 and the ships were put
up for sale. Royal Daffodil went for scrap; Royal Sovereign was sold to Townsend-
Thoresen and converted into the vehicle ferry Autocarrier. Queen of the
ABOVE An official GSNC photo of Queen of the Channel after 1954, when she
Channel, sold to a Greek company, is seen in the Medway with her new owners
was based at Ramsgate and operated the south coast services, cross-Channel
house flag on the funnel, ready to depart for Greece, with various parts of her
services to Calais and Boulogne, and on coastal cruises.
superstructure boarded up for protection around the Bay of Biscay.
to their normal routes, with Royal DaffoDil

Royal Daffodil operating from
launcheD 24.1.1939
Gravesend on cross-Channel
Built William Denny,
services and Kent coastal
Dumbarton
services. Ramsgate and Clacton
services to Calais, Boulogne SiZe 313ft x 54ft
and Dunkirk were provided tonnage 2,061grt
by Queen of the Channel, and Main engineS Two 12-cylinder
the two ships saw an increase 2,250bhp Sulzer
in passengers as a result of day two-stroke diesels
trips to France. When the new PaSSengeRS Up to 2,385
Deal pier was opened, both fate Scraped 02.1967
Royal Daffodil and Queen of the
Channel included Deal in their steadily rising, and the new
cross-Channel services. electric train services from
In the 1960s an attempt London to Margate and ABOVE The dining facilities on the ships were of a high standard, offering choice
was made to bring younger Ramsgate proving popular, there in elegant surroundings. This is the forward dining room on Royal Sovereign.
members of the public aboard, was a steady decline in numbers
and Royal Sovereign and Royal using General Steams Kent Clacton and Great Yarmouth. companys last. In December
Daffodil undertook jazz cruises, services. This was not helped Meanwhile, at weekends it was announced that General
with bands on board including when, in 1965, Stena started Queen of the Channel operated Steams summer service
Acker Bilk, Alex Welsh, Kenny a car and passenger cross- from Tower Pier to Southend would not operate again.
Ball and Terry Lightfoot. But Channel service from Tilbury. and Margate, and the rest of Royal Daffodil went for scrap,
the company received adverse The 1966 seamans strike led the week ran cross-Channel Royal Sovereign was sold and
publicity on some of the cruises to the late starting of General servicesin conjunction with converted to a vehicle ferry
due to some passengers taking Steams services that year. A Royal Daffodil. for Townsend Thoresen, and
too much of the cheap alcohol revision of the ships operations The problems of 1966 Queen of the Channel was sold
sold on board. saw Royal Sovereign make her were never fully overcome, to become OIA for service in
But with car ownership cross-Channel service from and the year proved to be the the Greek Islands.

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Retail of Bristol.
The shop now stocks and sells books
and Cunard paper ephemera, but no
toys, gadgets or other items. It has
St Helena museum? considerably more elbow room now
With the retirement of the RMS St than it did before the refit, making it
Helena, is there an opportunity for easier to peruse the offerings along
a Merchant Navy museum? After the many shelves. From the point of
26 years servicing the Island of St view of this frequent QM2 traveller, the
Helena, the ship that bears the refit has been a big success.
islands name is to be put up for sale. Alan Yorker
She must be one of the last British- Decatur, Georgia, USA
RMS St Helena on her way up the Thames recently. CHRIS BROOKS
built and -owned vessels of her type,
and one of only a few ocean-going Confused identity
ships that still flies the Red Ensign of and landings that took place during However, no museum is dedicated In the article on Oslo Maritime
the British Merchant Navy. the war. In the three weeks after to the service, and most of what the history (SM, July) there is a question
At the time of World War II the Dunkirk they, with other Allied merchant seamen achieved has been over the identity of Lady Mack, the
merchant fleet was the largest in merchant ships, rescued about forgotten. Few veterans remain and former Royal Netherlands Navy
the world and played a vital part in 180,000 service personnel, three no British ocean-going cargo ships Minesweeper Texel. The article states:
ensuring Britains survival. At the quarters of whom were British. A great from that period exist. Other nations Her precise original identity has still
lowest point, merchant ships still number of civilians were also saved. still keep units from their wartime to be confirmed but is either MMS73
brought in more than a third of The Merchant Navy supplied fleets. RMS St Helena would be most or MMS173. I can confirm that she is
Britains food requirements, all fuel almost 1,000 ships for the Normandy suitable for conversion to a sea-going MMS73. The confusion may stem from
oil and the majority of raw materials, Landings, ranging from half of all the museum ship. She could call at ports her code names, which were FY73,
as well as transporting millions of Infantry Landing Ships on the first day, around Britain, spending, say, six FY173 and MV11, and she was also
troops. In doing so, the service to little coasters which were beached weeks in each. In this way the ports NATO vessel M867. She was built by
sustained enormous losses: 4,786 of to discharge their vital cargoes in the would be visited at two-year intervals, Herd & MacKenzie at Buckie in 1942.
its ships were sunk and more than weeks that followed. Among many giving schools, youth groups and Dirk Van Geertruy
32,000 seamen perished. other operations in which they played others an opportunity to see her. France
The merchant fleet played a a significant part were the evacuation Roy Martin
significant part in the evacuations of Singapore and the relief of Malta. Southampton Return of Queen Mary
With reference to the article on the
return of the former Clyde excursion
Wappen von Hamburg pontoon from which all Hamburg austere by todays standards. vessel Queen Mary to the Clyde (SM,
I was amazed to read the article on ferries ran to their local destinations. Entertainment was provided by a trio Aug), I would point out that the vessel
the Wappen von Hamburg, as I knew She left at 0730 for her 12-hour of accordionists clad in lederhosen, was in fact moved to the James Watt
her when she was in Hamburg. When round trip via Cuxhaven to Heligoland. and among their repertoire was, Dock in Greenock, where she is currently
I was in charge of Thomas Cook we She was frequently late. I was offered surprisingly, Roll Out the Barrel. berthed, to avoid anyone making an
sold Hadag tickets, including excursion a Saturday trip on her, but declined, I also knew some of her pick-up abortive visit to Govan in Glasgow.
tickets on the ship, and I was invited to with the excuse that Cooks worked points, such as Stade and Willkomm- Arthur W. Sales
visit her. She berthed at the western Saturday mornings. She was a Hft, where Hamburgs citizens would Bishopton, Renfrewshire
end of Landungsbrcken, the floating charming ship, although surprisingly frequently board her. As Germanys
foremost post-war ship, she deserves Portsmouth cruise ship
her place in maritime history. I enjoyed reading the excellent news
Duncan Haws article about Portsmouth port (SM,
Gosport, Hants Sept), as well as the view from the
bridge featuring Boudiccas captain.
AIDAprima spotted Regarding the cruise ship Albatros of
I recently saw the new cruise ship Phoenix Reisen, the ship is now 206m
AIDAprima in Zeebrugge and think she long after her lengthening in the early
must be the ugliest block of flats 1980s and not the length as stated.
afloat today. She has a vertical stem, Her then sisterships, Royal Viking
like a World War I battleship, and no Star and Sea (now Black Watch and
flare to her bow to deflect waves. In Boudicca), were also lengthened at the
rough seas she will plough straight same time. I was lucky to photograph
Warship identification While sorting through some old documents through the waves and, I would think, Royal Viking Sea in 1973, when she was
recently I came across this photograph of a warship passing under a suspension take a lot of water over her bow, new, as she sailed into the Tyne. She
bridge. Can any reader identify the warship and the location of the photo? making her rather a wet ship. looked as good then as she does now.
Ibelieve the time period is the mid-1930s. Richard Abrahams, Gillingham Alan S. Howe, Caterham Hilton Davis, South Shields

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Duchesse Annes days at Poole

It is good to see the veteran ferries Her career with Brittany Ferries
Dubrovnik and Marko Polo still in ended on 30 September 1996. I
service and clearly well cared for was on duty at the Port of Poole Caesarea in Hong Kong ABOVE/BELOW Former Weymouth mail
steamer Caesarea, renamed Aesarea, in
(Classics in Croatia, SM, Sept). One that morning as she arrived from With reference to the article about
Hong Kong in 1982, with the name of
route Duchesse Anne (Dubrovnik) St Malo for the last time. After she Weymouths last mail steamers (SM,
her original home port just visible.
sailed on was a seasonal service had discharged traffic, preparations Aug). the attached images of one of
between Poole and St Malo from were made for her decommissioning them, Caesarea-Aesarea, may be of
1994 to 1996. She left the Dorset before she sailed empty back to interest. I took them in 1982 when I
port at 08.00 Friday to Monday, France ready to be handed over to was a resident in Hong Kong.
returning overnight from St Malo, Jadrolinija the following month. During the 1980s, Hong Kongs
and also made return trips from St Just before she sailed, the western outer harbour was home
Malo to Cork during the week. ships purser handed me the RNLI to many older ships waiting for new
I enjoyed several sailings from collection jar, to be passed on to the owners or on their way for scrapping.
Poole on her, when she was always Poole-based lifeboat charity. I then Among these vessels in 1982 was the
heavily loaded. She called at two very headed to Sandbanks to get the ferry Aesarea, looking quite derelict.
picturesque ports, and I remember above photograph of her leaving UK However, on a plate on the stern could
her as a comfortable ship with shores for the final time. just be made out Weymouth as an
pleasant on board areas, but there Kevin Mitchell earlier port of registration. The former Stephenson Clarke of Newcastle.
was hardly a straight line to be found. Poole British Rail ferry was one of a number As an apprentice at the works of
that have ended up in Hong Kongs the North Eastern Marine Co, I helped
Interest in Hain Line Model ship answer waters over the years. build the main steam engine pistons
I found the history of Hain Line (SM, In answer to Gaetano Spiteris request Ian D. Johnson and was involved in other work on the
Sept) of particular interest. I have for help with the model of Amur-Ra Felbridge construction of the triple expansion
a fine builders model of Trelawny, (SM, June, p.61), it seems to be very reheat poppet valve engines fitted
one of the companys ships. In order similar to the German vintage steamer Pompey Power in these ships. In 1952 I served as 3rd
to learn more about the vessel, I Schaarhrn, apart from the marking The collier Pompey Power (SM, July), Engineer on the Light for 14 coastal
contacted Lloyds Register of Shipping. and the top of the funnel. Schaarhrn now in Oslo, and her identical sister trips, ten to Portsmouth power station
Trelawny was built in 1927, and (featured in SM, Nov 2008) was built as a Pompey Light had the characteristic and four to Southampton gas works.
was one of five vessels sunk on 22 government vessel more than a century appearance of the Wear-built colliers At Portsmouth the power station
February 1941, when the westbound ago and is now a working museum ship of their day. They were built by S. P. coal stockyard included the tidal
convoy of which she was a part was based in Hamburg. Enthusiasts bought Austin in 1949, and were ordered by Camber dock. Apart from the two
attacked by German raiders, including her in the 1990s when she was a derelict the City of Portsmouth, which had Belliss and Morcom steam engines,
the battleships Gneisenau and hull in Scotland, brought her back to its own coal-fired power station. and of course the main engines,
Scharnhorst. The crew survived and the Elbe and restored her. There were They originally carried the citys coat pumps, lighting, heating, cooking
were taken as prisoners of war by the no sisterships or other similar vessels of arms on their funnels, but this and all deck machinery were electric.
Germans, and were lucky to survive. built, as far as I know. was changed to British Electricity Remarkable ships for their day.
Arthur J. Ferguson Gerd Schrder Authority (BEA) on nationalisation. David Aris
Sarasota, USA Heikendorf, Germany They were managed for the owners by Kendal, Cumbria
New Texel ferry enters service

I can supply some further information she is homeported at Oudeschild, a
about the new Dutch ferry small port on Texel with a small Damen
Texelstroom (SM, Sept). She can carry Shipyard. She was built in 2015 by the
a maximum of 340, not 350, cars and La Naval yard at Sestao near Bilbao,
her passengers capacity is 1,750. She but in 2016 was brought to the Damen
measures 135.4m by 27.9m and uses shipyard at Amsterdam for completion.
CNG (compressed natural gas) as her I was pleased to see this fantastic
main fuel, supplemented by solar vessel (pictured) during my visit to the
panels providing electrical energy. island of Texel in July.
She has already been serving the Frans Truyens
Den Helder-t Horntje (Texel) route, and Antwerp

November ports of call Compiled by Donna and Andrew Cooke
Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT Date Arr/dep Ship Operator GT
7 0630/16300 Braemar Fred. Olsen 24,344 22 0700/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901
GREENOCK (Glasgow)
7 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 23 0630/1630 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017
1-2 0600/1230 Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112
7 0800/2200 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 25 0630/1700 Arcadia P&O Cruises 84,342
8 0800/1930 Hebridean Princess Hebridean Cruises 2,112
7-8 0800/1600 Saga Pearll II Saga Cruises 18,627 25 0630/1630 Oceana P&O Cruises 77,499
9 0630/1630 Arcadia P&O Cruises 84,342 25 0630/1630 Oriana P&O Cruises 69,840
10 0530/1630 Navigator of The Seas Royal Caribbean 139,570 28 0800/2200 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572
HARWICH 11 0630/1630 Ventura P&O Cruises 116,017
TILBURY
11 0530/0900 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613 12 0630/1630 Oceana P&O Cruises 77,499
11 0600/1800 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613
LIVERPOOL 12 0730/1730 Balmoral Fred. Olsen 43,537
12 tbc/tbc Magellan CMV 46,052
7 tbc/tbc Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 13 0630/1630 Arcadia P&O Cruises 84,342
18 0600/1800 Black Watch Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,613
20 tbc/tbc Boudicca Fred. Olsen Cruises 28,551 14 0700/1630 Oceana P&O Cruises 77,499
14 0800/2200 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572 NOTES This information is given in good faith, and neither the authors nor Ships
SOUTHAMPTON 15 0600/1700 Queen Victoria Cunard Lines 90,049 Monthly can be held responsible for any changes to ship arrivals or departures;
1 0600/1630 Aurora P&O Cruises 76,152 19 0630/1630 Queen Elizabeth Cunard Lines 90,901 readers are advised to check port shipping movements nearer the time if
1 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 149,215 19 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 149,215 intending to view any of the ships, as schedules can change; tbc = to be confirmed
5 0630/1630 Queen Mary 2 Cunard Lines 149,215 20 0630/1630 Aurora P&O Cruises 76,152
7 0530/1600 Saga Sapphire Saga Cruises 37,049 21 0800/2200 AIDAprima AIDA Cruises 125,572
Mystery ship
This months mystery ship is
an old passenger liner with
the name Sonoma. But was
that her original name? She is
alongside at some port, but
which one? Is she about to
leave or has she just arrived?
Where might she be heading?
What is her history? When
was she originally built,
and what was her role in
her heyday? What was her
ultimate fate?
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Septembers mystery ship

Septembers mystery ship is instantly somewhat chequered careers, with refits,
recognisable as one of two identical sisters, periods of lay-up and renamings.
namely American Export Lines Independence Constitution was the first to go,
and Constitution, both of which were foundering in 1997 700 miles north of
completed in 1951 by Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Hawaii while being towed to the scrapyard
but which one? I have studied numerous at Alang, India. Independence lasted much
photographs, but find it impossible to longer, thanks to her sister having been
differentiate they were truly identical (original cannibalised for spare parts. She made her
gross tonnage was 23,719 for both) except last commercial voyage in October 2001,
for some aspects of their interior dcor. but it was not until 2010 that she was finally
What I can say is that the photograph broken up at Alang.
shows the ship in her original configuration, Robert H. Langlois, of Vale, Guernsey
and probably not later than about 1955.
The ships hulls were repainted white in The photo was taken in Genoa (in front
1960, and both ceased sailing for AEL in of Cotton Warehouses at Old Wharf), an
1969-70. After being laid up for several usual call for Constitution in the 1950s, as
years, they were sold in 1974 to C. Y. Tung her sister, Independence, usually called at
of Hong Kong and allocated to one of the Naples. Another ship can be seen on the left,
numerous operating companies within his possibly a Japanese cargo ship.
Orient Overseas Group. Thereafter they had Pier Vincenzo De Marzo, Genoa, Italy

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As Senior Master of Stena

Germanica, Captain ke Adolfsson
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worlds only ship which uses
methanol in its fuel mix, as John
Pagni finds out.
Are there any notable incidents vessel. Even in gale-force winds

you recall? you can sleep like a baby on board.
Once, when working on a TT Line She has good manoeuvrability, very
ship, a male passenger threw himself strong bow thrusters, and she is
overboard. We searched for about good to ride on, but she is a big
three hours, but he was never found, ship, so it takes time to get her
and with the water temperature moving. Both Kiel and Gothenburg
only 2C it is unlikely he survived. are good ports, because they offer
I have faced the big seas in the shelter from most strong winds.
Atlantic, but they became normal to
me after a while. I had an incident Have you noticed any changes
on board a tanker off the Norwegian after the conversion?
coast when we encountered 10-15m She is exactly the same as before
waves. The ship could not hold using methanol, but now there are
against the wind and was making virtually no exhaust gases, although
one knot astern towards rocky I cannot really see the funnels, as
shoals. We had to fill the tanks with they are behind the raised deck
seawater, as she was in ballast at the (aft of the bridge). When we run
time, and it was a worrying situation completely on methanol, there is no
ABOVE Captain ke Adolffson on the When did your studying begin? until we started making headway. I smoke at all.
bridge of Stena Germanica. I went to the Merchant Marine was Second Officer and the ship had
Academy in Kalmar between 1991 a crew of 14. How do you occupy your
and 1995 and worked on tankers in sparetime?
What is your background? the North Sea for Target Shipping What is your favourite ship? I am fond of Alpine skiing and
I was born in the city of Malm in around the Norwegian coast. Then I have to say Stena Germanica she Ischglin Austria is a favourite
southern Sweden in 1970. I went my daughter was born, which is fantastic! I was on hand in early holiday destination. I like being
to sea aged 17 on the dry cargo meant I wanted to be closer to 2015 during her rebuilding, which outdoors anywhere in the summer,
vessel Minna, which was 46m long. home. So I started with TT Line was my first on-the-spot shipyard but as my daughter is now 19 and
I was a deckhand apprentice and ferries, running between Denmark experience, when the engines were my son 16 is they do not need me
we were away for three to four and Sweden. After that I went to modified for dual fuel with methanol. so much. I now work two weeks
weeks tramping around the Baltic. Scandlines in 2005. When Stena Other experiences were just routine on and three off. When I met my
We called at ports in Sweden and Line took the company over, I was maintenance drydockings. During the wife to be, I was already working
Denmark, carrying mainly grain transferred. I became Senior Master refit, I even managed to go ashore on ships going to the USA. In fact,
andsand. four years ago aboard Trelleborg. once for a beer! But I will visit Poland soon after we met I left on a six-
again as a tourist some time there month contract. So I started with
And how did your career What is your favourite port? was not time during this project. 180 days away, which has reduced
develop? I am quite fond of Kiel it is a nice continuously since, so I am at
After Minna I worked on the Malm- port, mainly because of its location. What have you noticed about homemore.
Travemnde ferries and then got We go right to the city centre, so its her since the refit?
some ro-ro expertise with Gorthon position is very good for the ship, She is virtually vibration-free and BELOW Stena Germanica in
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Cruise news Record day on the Tyne SHIP OF

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Historic Russian frigate White Swans 160th year

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Call for larger Dunoon vessels

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Port of Tynes record day of cruising

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