Description

52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the cruise ship Norway; On the Waterfront; Ferry Fleets Update; Ferry Focus - Val de Loire; Old Friends Revisited - a review of Royal Navy warships still in service overseas; Ports of Call; European Liners Cruise On - Ted Scull reviews the varied fleet of European passenger liners in service today as cruise ships - Part 1 - Former French and Dutch Liners; Ships in the News; Classic Liners Cruise On! - colour photofeature; Callers at the Cape - colour photofeature; Farewell to the former United States Line's trans-Atlantic liner 'America' - photofeature; A New Heart for an Old Lady - the extensive refit carried out on the eighty-year-old missionary vessel Doulos, claimed to be the world's oldest active ocean-going ship; The Loss of the Fort Stikine - fifty years ago this month an explosion in Bombay docks killed or injured 1,400 people and destroyed nearly 35,000 tons of shipping - as recalled by survivor Dennis Cairns; Voyage Report - Elephant Ahoy! - David Barton shared a voyage on the City of Stafford in the mid-1950s with a baby elephant; Cruise Ship Review; Warships in Profile - Patrol Vessels; Large colour photo of the Cotswold inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book