No. 368 November 2020

November 2020

Front cover

The 5,805grt Baskerville of Transatlantic Carriers making its way through the Canadian Ice. She was built in 1954 by J. Readhead at South Shields to carry newsprint. She was broken up in 1974. See article on Newsprint Carriers.

Photo by René Beauchamp

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPSTustumena and Kennicott

NEWSPRINT CARRIERS – High and Low Quality Paper for the Modern World

80 YEARS AGO – British Merchant Ships lost in October 1940

FISHING TRIPS AND MERCHANT SHIPS – The Verconella – Part Two

APRIL 1944 – AN EXPLOSIVE MONTH! – Bombay and Bergen

THE LOSS OF THE BARLBY – Should she have been allowed to sail?

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST – Australian Coastal Steamships – Part One

PORT OF CALL – Juneau

FORGOTTEN FLEETS – Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. – Part One

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT – The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS – MSC and Costa back to work, Issues for Genting

FERRY NEWS – Quarantine Woes, Galicia delivered to Brittany Ferries

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH – Emmaya and Seacat Weatherly

PHOTO OF THE MONTH – Liverpool in April 1969

READERS’ CORNER – Unknown Ship