Ships Monthly Magazine

28 October 2022

The November issue of Ships Monthly is out now, and is packed with all the usual news and outstanding articles and features. The ferry connections on the historic route between Harwich and the Hook of Holland are examined, with a history of the ships that have been operated on this famous crossing. Profile of Royal Caribbean International’s Freedom of the Seas, currently the largest ship sailing from Miami on scheduled three- and four-night cruises to the Bahamas. Shipspotting in Tor Bay in Devon and the surrounding area, which has a long maritime history and offers plenty of interest to the ship enthusiast. The Big Picture spotlights the well-known passenger vessel Centaur. The Gibson family of Cornwall were famous outstanding photographers of shipwrecks, and we have a fine selection from a different maritime era. On the naval front, we profile of HMS Hermes, which went down 80 years ago and is regarded as the world’s first aircraft carrier. The bombing of the cruiser HMS Sussex in Glasgow in 1940 will long be remembered by locals as the ship ‘with the bomb that went doon the funnel’. The Maritime Mosaic photographic feature covers offshore supply ships and safety vessels which regularly visit to Aberdeen. Photo feature showing small coastal tankers, which are among the many ships to visit ports on the busy Humber estuary.