No. 369 December 2020

December 2020

Front cover

The 11,272grt Sussex at Southampton in September 1968. She was built in 1949 by John Brown at Clydebank for the Federal Steam Navigation Company. See the Forgotten Fleets article in this issue.

Photo by Nigel Lawrence

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPS – Pulganbar

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE – The First Fifty Years (Part One)

80 YEARS AGO  – British Merchant Ships lost in November 1940

FISHING TRIPS AND MERCHANT SHIPS – Home Trade – Melrose Abbey

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST – Australian Coastal Steamships (Part Two)

PORT OF CALL – Bordeaux

FORGOTTEN FLEETS – Federal Steam Navigation Co. (Part Two)

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT – The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS – Farewell Boudicca, Enchanted Princess delivered

FERRY NEWS – P&O to dispose of for ships, Glen Sannox update

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH – Odin of Scapa and Thor of Scapa

PHOTO OF THE MONTH – Liverpool in 1964

READERS’ CORNER – Unknown Ship

BOOK REVIEWS – Wartime Windjammers, Sietas and its Ships – Part 1, The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943), Mayflower in Britain