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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
News Round-up.
The Branch Line of P&O.
Shell's Helix.
Ships of Shame.
Atlantic convoys memorial unveiled.
FotoFlite File.
Merchant Navy 1932.
Three pages of photographs.
New ship for Commodore.
Military Sealift Command and 50 years of service.
Pirate attacks on merchant ships.
Merchant Ships of Yesterday: Ships of the Lyie Shipping Co.
Warships of Yesterday.
Reader's Requests.
Book Reviews.
Classified Advertisements.
The Branch Line of P&O.
Shell's Helix.
Ships of Shame.
Atlantic convoys memorial unveiled.
FotoFlite File.
Merchant Navy 1932.
Three pages of photographs.
New ship for Commodore.
Military Sealift Command and 50 years of service.
Pirate attacks on merchant ships.
Merchant Ships of Yesterday: Ships of the Lyie Shipping Co.
Warships of Yesterday.
Reader's Requests.
Book Reviews.
Classified Advertisements.
FRONT: The U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy is one of the ships operated by the Military Sealift Command which this year celebrated its 50th anniversary of serving the U.S. Military in the front line -see Page 30. Picture: M.S.C. BACK: The bulk carrier/container ship Belforest, 27,470grt, of Belships Co. A/S, Oslo, built by Tsuneishi Zosen KK, Numakuma, in 1985 and designed to carry forest products; between 1993 and 1998, she operated as the City of New Westminster, under the Philippines flag, and she is presently the Barbel Arrow, of Canadian Transport. Picture: FotoFlite, Ashford.
Article Snippets
The Royal Mail Lines passenger ship Essequibo, 8,489grt, built by Workman dark & Co., Belfast, in 1914; during the First World War, she was used as ahospital ship; in 1922, she operated for the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. on their New York-Valparaiso service and she is seen laid up in the River Dart during the early 1930s; in 1935, the ship was sold to the USSR and was renamed Neva, and she is believed to have been broken up in the 1950s.
