No. 405 December 2023

December 2023

Front cover

The 59,912gt Ro-Ro and passenger ferry Silja Europa of Tallink arriving at Tallinn in August 2022. She was built in 1993 by Jos. L. Meyer at Papenburg. See this month’s Port of Call.

Photo by Nigel Lawrence

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPS

A history of Cunard’s liner Ausonia of 1921

C.Y. TUNG

Founder of the Orient Overseas Line

JAMES FISHER & SONS LTD OF BARROW

175 years of Shipowning and Enterprise – Part Two

80 YEARS AGO

British Merchant Ships lost in December 1943

ADVENTURES AS A CADET WITH P&O IN THE 1950s

The continuing memoir of a cadet at sea.

OLD TIGERS OF THE FAR EAST

Part Four of series on Asian shipping.

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST

Everards around the coast – Part 14

PORT OF CALL

Tallinn, Estonia

FORGOTTEN FLEETS

Saint Line of Rankin, Gilmour & Co Ltd

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT

The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS

Farewell AIDAaura and Celestyal Crystal

FERRY NEWS

Condor Ferries update, New owners for Hythe Ferry

PHOTO OF THE MONTH

Paljassaare, Tallinn harbour in August 2022