No. 403 October 2023

October 2023

Front cover

The 28,582grt Pendennis Castle at Southampton in November 1967. She was built in 1958 by Harland & Wolff at Belfast and later sailed as Ocean Queen, Sindbad and Sindbad I before being broken up at Kaohsiung in 1980. See article on Union Castle Line in this issue.

Photo by Nigel Lawrence

Contents

FEATURES

MEMORABLE SHIPS
Fairsky

EVERY THURSDAY AT 4PM
The Union-Castle Southampton to the Cape service

OLD TIGERS OF THE FAR EAST
Part Three

80 YEARS AGO
British Merchant Ships lost in October 1943

THE AUSTRALIAN MERCHANT NAVY IN WW2
Australian ships lost or damaged on the Australian Coast during the war

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST
Everards around the Coast, Part 12

PORT OF CALL
Gothenburg

FORGOTTEN FLEETS
The Allan family of Glasgow Shipowners

 

REGULARS

NEWS REPORT
The latest news from around the world

CRUISE NEWS
Explorer I debut, Silver Nova delivered

FERRY NEWS
Stena veteran bows out, Coastal Celebration leak

NEWBUILD OF THE MONTH
P&O Pioneer

PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Sydney in January 2018