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In this issue...
News Round-up: The latest news of developments.
The naval campaign in the Kosovo crisis.
The latest from our postbag.
Cruise ships due this month.
Athel Line's molasses fleet.
The ships of shame.
FotoFlite File.
Merchant Navy 1973.
Four pages of photographs.
Merseyside memories: a picture portfolio.
Gaul inquiry to be re-opened.
Coasters' vital role.
The loss of the submarine Thetis.
Merchant Ships of Yesterday: King Line.
Warships of Yesterday.
Book and video reviews.
Readers' Requests.
Classified Advertisements.
Pre-war design of heavy lift ships for M.O.W.T. The Ben Line heavy lift ship Benarty, 9,862dwt, was completed by the Greenock Dockyard Co.. Greenock. in 1946 as the Empire Wallace, of the Ministry of War Transport; she was bought by Ben Line in 1956 and sold in 1963, She was one of a class of heavy lift ships built during the war to the basic design of the Belpareil, one of a fleet of ships built up between the wars by Christen Smith & Co., Oslo, for the transport of locomotives, tugs, lightships and other similar bulky cargoes. The Empire Wallace was one of the final group of four of these ships built for the M.O.W.T.
FRONT: The ACL roll-on, roll-off container ship Atlantic Conveyor, 58,438grt, off Anglesey; she was completed by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend, in 1985, and was lengthened by Scott Lithgow, Greenock, in 1987.
BACK: The Ellerman cargo ship City of Durban, 52,055grt; built by AG Weser, Bremen, in 1978, she is presently the Pegasus Bay of P&O Nedlloyd Line.
