No. 399 June 2023

June 2023

Front cover

The 47,592gt Spirit of Britain of P&O Ferries leaving Dover in June 2011. She was completed in January 2011 by STX Finland Cruise at Rauma. See our Port of Call article.

Photo by Nigel Lawrence

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPS – Begoña and Montserrat

A SALUTE TO THE BRAVE AND VALIANT NORWEGIANS

80 YEARS AGO – British Merchant Ships lost in June 1943

DERELICTION: AND THE OCEAN TOO WEEPS – A poem by Salim Bhimji

THE LOSS OF THE DARA – Through the eyes of the Junior Cadet

A VOYAGE TO HONG KONG – Part Two – The Bendoran

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST – Everards around the Coast – Part Eight

PORT OF CALL – Dover

FORGOTTEN FLEETS – Gas Board Colliers

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT – The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS – Arvia christened, Seabourn Odyssey sold to MOL

FERRY NEWS – Further delays for Glen Sannox, Stena Vinga to Bornholm

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH – Elouise Eslea

PHOTO OF THE MONTH – The Duquesa and others at South Shields in August 1965