No. 411 June 2024

June 2024

Front cover

Coast Guard manned USS LST-21 unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a Rhino barge during the early hours of the invasion, 6 June 1944.

Photo by US Coast Guard Collection (US National Archives)

Contents

FEATURES

A DAY TO REMEMBER
6th June – the 80th Anniversary of D-Day

80 YEARS AGO
British Merchant Ships lost in June 1944

HMS UNDAUNTED OF 1944
Part of Support Force K for Gold Beach on 6th June 1944

MEMORABLE SHIPS
75 Years of the Balmoral

THE SOCOTRA
A Voyage on a 40’s Freighter

THE FINAL VOYAGE OF SS SHAKESPEAR
A Merchant Seaman’s Story

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST
Everards around the Coast

PORT OF CALL
Amsterdam and the North Sea Canal

FORGOTTEN FLEETS
Orient Line

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT
The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS
Stornoway’s new terminal opens, carnival Jubilee christened

FERRY NEWS
CalMac updatte. P&O Liberte arrives

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH
Grimaldi Lines’ G5 Class

PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Portsmouth in October 2016