No. 421 April 2025

April 2025

Front cover

The 40,231gt Pearl Seaways of DFDS leaving Copenhagen in 2014. She was built in 1989 by Wartsila at Turku. She recently joined Gotlandsbolaget and has been renamed Nordic Pearl.
See this month's Port of Call.

Photo by Nigel Lawrence

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPS
Augustus and Giulio Cesare

A VOYAGE IN THE ULYSSES IN 1932

THE TRAGIC LOSS OF HMS GLORIOUS
A Dramatic WWII Story

80 YEARS AGO
British Merchant Ships lost in April 1945

STUDYING FOR TICKETS
A Personal Account

THE DEVIL’S SEA OR DRAGON’S TRIANGLE
Pacific Ocean’s Bermuda Triangle

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST
Sweden with Everards

PORT OF CALL
Copenhagen

FORGOTTEN FLEETS
Thomas Dunlop & Sons Ltd.

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT
The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS
Ambassador & CFC to merge, Record year for Southampton

FERRY NEWS
Saint-Malo arrives, Tallink update

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH
Glen Sannox

PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Gibraltar in December 2022