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14 NAVAL

6 WATERFRONT

Docking dilemma for RN’s new aircraft

carriers, Canada’s naval supply ship, and new
Franco-Italian tankers. Gary Davies

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NAVY TODAY
PLUS
MODERNISING
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CANADIAN
NAVY

Ulysses Upgrade completed, RML 497 to go
on display in Hartlepool, Stena introduces
Forecaster, and Orkney Ferries warning.

REMEMBERING
CLASSIC CARGO LINERS OF THE

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Spliethoff acquires Hansa ships, Hamburg

Süd sells to China Navigation, Ardmore sells
tankers, and Misje tenders for two eco bulkers.

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in service for Irish Ferries at last, and St Cecilia
joins sisters with Delcomar. Russell Plummer

12 CRUISE

Orders for new cruise ships at record levels,
change of role for St Helena, and latest launch
for Virgin Cruises. William Mayes

18 NEWBUILD
Tsuneishi develops new tanker, all-electric
powered container barges, and Thun’s new
LNG or biogas-fuelled tanker. Jim Shaw

20 NEWS FEATURE
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 EAST ASIATIC CO
History of the East Asiatic Company, a Danish
conglomerate which built and operated a
series of fine cargo liners. Niels Storringgaard


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24 MAXIM GORKIY
History of the former Hamburg to mark her
50th anniversary this year. Jonathan Crabbe

28 GIBRALTAR FERRIES

Captain Diego Perra, Master of the cruise ship
Grand Princess, talks about his career and the
ship he commands. David Brown

CHARTROOM

Ferry services across the Straits of Gibraltar,
from Spain to Morocco and Ceuta. Matt Davies

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33 SHIPS PICTORIAL

64 PORTS OF CALL

Photos of ships in Sydney, Portsmouth,
Southampton and on the Thames.

36 YARD APPRENTICE
The first of a two-part article telling the story
of an apprenticeship in Denny’s Clydeside
shipyard in the 1950s. Ian Buxton


A selection of letters from readers.
Cruise ships calling in April.

64 MYSTERY SHIP
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44 Profile of the Royal Navy and its
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49 Modernising the Royal Canadian
Navy for the 21st century.
Conrad Waters


WATERFRONT
MACANDREWS
TO DISAPPEAR
INDUSTRY NEWS
Another well-known name in
British shipping comes to an
end in April, when MacAndrews,
considered the world’s oldest

existing shipping company, is
merged into CMA CGM’s Finlandbased Containerships subsidiary,
which was acquired by the French
container carrier last year.
Formed in Scotland as far back
as 1770, MacAndrews became
part of London-based United
Baltic Corporation in 1935, but
left shipowning in 1979 to rely on
chartered tonnage. In 2002 the
company was purchased by CMA
CGM and, at the start of 2018, was
merged with the 1882-established
Oldenburg-Portugiesische
Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR)
under the MacAndrews GmbH
name, the company’s office then
relocating to Hamburg.
MacAndrews has most recently
provided shipping services
that connect various North and
Central European ports with the
Iberian Peninsula, the Canary
Islands and ports in Morocco. JS

RML 497 arrives at Hartlepool. The former Royal Navy
Fairmile B motor launch was named Western Lady III
when used as a passenger motor vessel by Western
Lady Ferry Service. From 2009 to 2015 she operated
as The Fairmile for Greenway Ferry.


WARTIME SURVIVOR TO GO ON DISPLAY
RESTORATION
A unique World War II survivor
arrived in Hartlepool in January
following months of preparation
for the transfer. Rescue Motor
Launch RML 497 completed a
420-nautical-mile journey to the
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Hartlepool ahead of a conservation
programme to get her on
permanent display at the museum
site. She will form the centrepiece

HYBRID ELECTRIC POWER

of displays telling the story of
coastal forces in the North Sea.
Following her arrival at PD
Ports, RML 497 was carefully
craned into place alongside the
National Museum of the Royal
Navy Hartlepool and placed
into a temporary building. Key
stakeholders of the project, local
dignitaries and members of the
public gathered at the Museum to
welcome RML 497 to Hartlepool.
The 34m Rescue Motor Launch


CROATIA’S NEW GUARDIAN
COASTGUARD VESSEL

S A new series of ro-ro vessels being built in China to
a Knud E. Hansen design for Italy’s Grimaldi Lines will incorporate
a hybrid propulsion system using lithium-ion batteries. KNUD E. HANSEN

GRIMALDI RO-ROS
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime
and Switzerland-based Leclanché
are joining forces to provide
elements of a hybrid marine
electric propulsion system for use
in a series of 238m by 34m ro-ro
vessels being built in China for
Italy’s Grimaldi Group.
The 64,000gt ships will use
battery power alone while
manoeuvring in port and
while docked to reduce both

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noise and pollution levels. The
batteries will be recharged,
during navigation, by the ship’s
shaft generators, as well as by
600m2 of solar panels.
Being built by China’s CS

Nanjing Jinling Shipyard,
the vessels will be delivered
in 2020–22, with nine to be
operated by the group’s
Mediterranean-based
Grimaldi Lines and three icestrengthened units by its Finnish
subsidiary Finnlines. JS

497 has had a varied history.
She began life rescuing airmen
during World War II, and latterly
provided a ferry service in the
South West. She was acquired by
the Portsmouth-based National
Museum of the Royal Navy in 2015
following a grant of £90,600 from
the HLF and £5,000 each from
the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust
and the National Museum. The
move was made possible by a Tees
Valley Combined Authority grant.

The first of five offshore patrol
vessels has been delivered to the
Croatian Navy from the Brodosplit
shipyard. They are the first ships
specifically purpose-built for the
Coastguard since independence,
after the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Initially scheduled for handover

in 2017-18, they were delayed
caused because the prototype
experienced issues during the
systems testing by the navy.

The vessels will perform typical
duties patrolling Croatia’s long
coastline and islands, enforcing
maritime law against drug and
migrant trafficking, search and
rescue, fishing protection and antipirate and defence operations.
CPV 31 Omiš has a 30mm
gun forward plus two Browning
machine guns, as well as a sternlaunched RIB pursuit craft. The
Caterpillar engine gives the ships
a top speed of 28 knots and a
range of 1,000nm at 15 knots. JP

S The Croatian Coastguard’s new CPVs measure 43m by 8m and draw less
than 4m, making them well suited for working Croatia’s craggy coastline.


news
FERRY NEWS
As a part of the ongoing
development of Stena Line’s Irish
Sea route network, the 24,688gt
ro-ro vessel Stena Forecaster
(pictured) has been transferred
from Stena RoRo to Stena Line and

entered service on the BelfastLiverpool route on 12 February.
Stena Forerunner will transfer back
to the North Sea and operation
on Rotterdam-Killingholme.

VOYAGE OF
REMEMBRANCE
BOUDICCA
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is working
with the Royal British Legion to
offer a ‘Voyage of Remembrance’
for Normandy veterans to mark
the 75th anniversary of the June
1944 D-Day Landings. The Legion
has chartered the 880-guest
Boudicca (1973/28,388gt) to
take up to 300 veterans, each
with a relative or carer, to see
special commemorations in both
England and France.
Boudicca is due to sail from
Dover on 2 June and head to
Dunkirk, followed by calls at
Poole and Portsmouth for special
events, before she crosses the
English Channel to Le Havre on
6 June, exactly 75 years after the
D-Day Landings started.
Peter Deer, Commercial
Director at Fred. Olsen Cruise

Lines, commented: ‘The voyage
will follow the same path as
the ships involved on that
momentous day, and Boudicca
will provide a comfortable
setting in which to retrace those
important steps.’ RP

‘This is an important step in
our expansion programme for our
‘diagonal corridor’ services to and
from Belfast. Stena Forecaster will
help us to deliver a reliable and
high-quality service to our freight
customers. The 3,000-lane-metre
ship will help boost capacity
ahead of next year’s introduction
of the first of two new larger
E-Flexer ships currently under
construction in China. The new
ships will significantly increase

both freight and travel capacity,’
said Paul Grant, Trade Director
Irish Sea North.
Stena Forecaster will make
two departures a day Monday
to Friday, and will partner ro-pax
vessels Stena Lagan and Stena
Mersey on the Belfast-Liverpool

route. Stena Forecaster was built
in 2003 by Dalian Shipyard in
China and measures 195m by
27m, with power coming from
four Sulzer 8ZAL40S diesels.

COUNCIL FERRY WARNING
ORKNEY ISLES
The Scottish Government has
been warned by Orkney Island
Council that unless £6.8 million
is received for the next year of
passenger and vehicle services
from Kirkwall, and other centres
on mainland, to islands, including
Eday, Hoy, Sanday and Westray,
they will stop running them.
Operator Orkney Ferries is
owned by the Island Council and
currently has an eight-strong
fleet, with the principal North

Isles network maintained by
771gt/1990-built sisters Earl Sigurd
and Earl Thorfinn, which came
from the McTay Marine yard at
Bromborough on the Wirral and
carry 190 passengers and 26 cars.
North Isles support comes from
the larger Varagen (1988/928gt),

which joined the fleet in 1991,
having been delivered by Selbybased Cochrane Shipbuilders
for an unsuccessful bid to launch
a Pentland Firth service from
Burwick on South Ronaldsay to
Gills Bay, Caithness. RP

S The 358gt 1994-built Hoy Head is one of the vessels maintaining services
around the Orkney archipelago. NICHOLAS LEACH

BRIEF NEWS
SHIPPING LEGEND DIES t

Greek Shipping entrepreneur
Pericles Panagopoulos, who died
in Athens after a long illness on 3
February at the age of 83, was a
major innovator in the cruise and
ferry sectors, as well as operating
dry bulk ships. He first worked in
Genoa and then London for cruise
company Home Lines and spent six
years at Sun Line in Piraeus before
founding Royal Cruise Line in 1971.
During his spell with Superfast
Ferries from 1974 he helped to
transform services between Greece
and Italy with fast new ferries,
cutting journey times. RP
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Salamis Lines is buying the Britishregistered Swedish Orient Line

vessel for €4.95 million and expect
to take delivery of the 1982-built,
2,170 lane-metre freight ro-ro
during April. Vikingland had
been in the Baltic on Stena Line’s
Karlskrona-Gdynia route relieving
vessels since August 2018. RP
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Group has taken delivery of the
con-ro ships Tasmanian Achiever
II and Victorian Reliance II from
China’s Jinling’s Yizheng Shipyard;
the vessels are to replace older
ships on the company’s run across
Bass Strait between Melbourne,
Victoria and Burnie, Tasmania. JS
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builder Royal IHC has launched
the 44,180kW self-propelled
cutter suction dredger Spartacus
for Belgium’s DEME as the world’s
largest dredger of its type and
the first to be powered by LNG.
Capable of dredging to a depth
of 147.5ft (45m), Spartacus joins
the previously delivered LNGpowered trailing suction hopper
dredgers Minerva and Scheldt
River in the DEME fleet. JS
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Government has invited three

operators to tender for the next
long-term contract covering ferry
routes to Orkney and Shetland,
including present service provider
Serco Northlink. RP

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ULYSSES UPGRADE COMPLETED
An unusual view of Ulysses
showing her rudder and
propeller arrangement.

CONCEPT
Russia’s design bureau, Malachite,
which has developed several

classes of nuclear-powered
submarine for the Russian Navy,
has designed an 82m ice-breaking
submarine for oil, gas and mineral
subsea work in the Arctic.
To be completed to Arc5 iceclass standards, the vessel would
be able to navigate through
1.2m thick ice while operating
on the surface and would carry
a mini-submarine that would
work independently from the
mothership. Three remotely
operated vehicle (ROV) interfaces
would be provided on the hull,
while duration divers would be
able to exit from a hatch at the
bottom of the submarine that
would be fitted with an internal
hyperbolic chamber. JS

S An ice-class submarine being
designed for work in the Arctic
would carry a mini-submarine in an
enclosed hanger on deck. MALACHITE

BREXIT PLAN
The ferry Ulysses, Irish Ferries’
Dublin to Holyhead route
vessel, returned to Dublin on
13 February following extensive

work undertaken at the Cammell
Laird shipyard in Merseyside. The
four-week upgrade involved a
complete refurbishment as well as
maintenance work, which included
the fitting of new propellers,

FESCO’s icebreaking supply ship Vasiliy Golovnin
has been chartered by the Government of India for
Antarctic supply missions. FESCO

RUSSIA SUPPLIES INDIANS
RESEARCH SHIP
Russia’s FESCO Group has
signed a contract with the
Government of India’s National
Center for Polar and Ocean
Research to supply Indian
research stations in Antarctica
this year using its 1988-built
icebreaking supply ship Vasiliy

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news

Golovnin (4,777gt). Under the
agreement, the 159.8m dieselelectric powered vessel, which
can carry 298TEU, will load
supplies at Cape Town, South

Africa for delivery to the Indian
Antarctic stations of Bharati and
Maitri and will also be available
to NCPOR scientists for
scientific research activities. JS

new rudder components, a full
refurbishment of her stern thruster
and other underwater works.
There were also engine overhauls
as well as programmes for
painting of the vehicle decks.
The Birkenhead shipyard and
engineering service company was
chosen for Ulysses dry-docking
because of their extensive
expertise and a strong track record
with this vessel. Andrew Sheen,

Irish Ferries Managing Director
said: ‘This is a significant investment
in Ulysses. We are delighted
to see her return to service to
continue to provide the comfort
and reliability that our customers
expect from Irish Ferries’.
Ulysses was completed in 2001
by Aker Finnyards, and entered
service in March 2001. After the
2003 season, Ulysses was refitted

at A&P Group’s Birkenhead yard.

FLEET RENEWAL COMPLETED
MAERSK SUPPLY
Maersk Maker, the final vessel of
Maersk Supply Service’s Starfish
AHTS newbuilding series, was
delivered from Kleven Yard on
14 February. The arrival of the
new ship completes Maersk
Supply Service’s Fleet Renewal
Programme, with ten newbuild
vessels delivered and 23 vessels
divested over the last three years.
The average age of Maersk
Supply Service’s current 44-vessel

fleet has been reduced to less
than ten years. The renewed fleet
consists of 30 AHTS vessels, 12
SSVs and two PSVs, which support
Maersk Supply Service’s various
offshore projects, which include
towing, mooring and installation;
subsea construction; and inspection
and maintenance. Ten newbuild
vessels have joined the Maersk
Supply Service fleet since March
2017, including six M class AHTS
vessels of the Starfish series and four

I-class SSVs of the Stingray series.

S The anchor-handling tug supply vessel Maersk Maker has recently been
completed and joins further newbuilds with Maersk Supply Service.


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ECKERÖ LINE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
From modest beginnings, the Åland-owned Eckerö Line has survived
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popular international passenger route between the
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S Translandia berthed in Port of Tallinn’s Old City Harbour after a change of
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Finlandia (2001, ex-Moby Freedom), is now Eckero Line’s only
vessel, With her introduction, Eckerö Line could compete with
rivals in terms of size, speed and comfort. ALL PHOTOS BY JOHN PAGNI

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VEHICLES 1,376 million (2018)
TRUCKS and trailers 365,000 (2018)

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RUSSIAN WITH A GERMAN HEART

MAXIM GORKIY

T

he launch of
Hamburg in
her namesake

city on 21
February 1968
was a significant event in
German maritime history.
Not only was she the first
major passenger vessel to
be built in the country for
German owners in 30 years,
but she also maintained a

strong connection with her
motherland throughout
her 40-year operational life,
despite an early sale to the
Soviet Union.
Built for the short-lived
German Atlantic Line by
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche
Werft, the 25,000gt Hamburg
was conceived as a cruise ship
with occasional transatlantic
liner duties. However, by the

S Maxim Gorkiy departing Vancouver in post-Soviet livery in April 1993 on
one of her record 35 global circumnavigations. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

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time she entered service, her
owners had abandoned the

North Atlantic trade, and
she was employed solely as a
cruise ship from the outset.
German Atlantic’s marketing
department dubbed Hamburg
the ‘space ship’ in reference
to the generous proportion
of space dedicated to her
652 passengers, although
there was undoubtedly

a futuristic connotation.
Not so futuristic was the
choice of steam turbines over
more fuel-efficient diesel
engines, a decision that
would ultimately hasten the
vessel’s demise. Nevertheless,
Hamburg’s designers came
up with a distinctive and
handsome new look. The
ship’s angular forward
superstructure and lack of

S Pictured in the 1980s while on charter to Neckermann, Maksim Gorkiy
enjoys some Aegean sun at Rhodes. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION


CRUISE SHIP


On the 50th anniversary of the former Hamburg’s entry into
service, Jonathan Crabbe recalls an extraordinary career
that saw the vessel star in a blockbuster movie, survive an
encounter with an ice floe, and circle the globe
more times than any other cruise ship.

sheer aft of the bow gave her
a contemporary feel, while
the low-slung superstructure
added a certain sleekness. It
was her unusual hourglassstyle funnel, however, that set
the vessel apart.
On 30 March 1969
Hamburg set out from
Cuxhaven on her maiden
voyage, a 36-night cruise
to West Africa and South
America. She made her first
appearance in New York on 26
June 1969 and subsequently
undertook a series of summer
cruises from the port. Over
the next four years, she
operated deluxe cruises on
both sides of the Atlantic and

also from the United States
west coast.

COMRADE GORKIY

Following the sale of fleetmate
Hanseatic to Home Lines,
Hamburg was renamed
Hanseatic in September 1973.
However, like many shipping
lines at the time, German
Atlantic was struggling with
spiralling labour and fuel costs,
forcing it to cease operations
just two months later.
The barely five-year-old
pride of the German merchant
marine was put up for sale and
was soon purchased by the
Soviet Union for its Black Sea
Shipping Company. Delivered

S Maksim Gorkiy arriving at San Francisco in May 1978 on an early
Neckermann world cruise. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION

in January 1974, the ship was
renamed Maksim Gorkiy –
pseudonym of Russian writer
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
(1868-1936) – and the iconic
hammer and sickle mounted
on her funnel.
Before welcoming her first
fare-paying passengers, Maksim
Gorkiy tried her hand at acting.

Chartered to the makers of
the 1974 British bomb thriller
‘Juggernaut’, she was cast
in the role of Britannic and
dispatched to the North Sea as
a floating set with stars Richard
Harris and Omar Sharif on
board. In an eerie irony,
scenes of bombs exploding on
the ship would take on new

meaning later that year when
Maksim Gorkiy became the
real target of terrorists.
Two separate attacks,
perpetrated by militant
anti-Castro Cuban exiles,
occurred in December 1974
and November 1975 while
the ship was docked in San
Juan, Puerto Rico. In the first
incident, an explosive device
was thrown on board, while
the second more sophisticated
attempt involved two blasts to
the hull below the waterline.
Fortunately, there were no
casualties, and damage to the
ship was relatively minor.
In another irony, Maksim

Gorkiy’s first assignment as

S Framed by the Harbour Bridge, Maxim is assisted to her Sydney berth on
her last call at the port in February 2007. AUTHOR

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