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September 2008 News
In June 2008 the Holland America Line fleet became 14-strong with the delivery of Eurodam, the first of the innovative Signature Class ships.
Ships Monthly, 22 August 2008
Tall Ships come to Liverpool
The latest Tall Ship extravaganza to come to British shores saw Liverpool and the Mersey play host to the Tall Ship's Races 2008 from 18 to 21 July.
Nick Leach/Ships Monthly, 22 July 2008
August 2008 News
Australia's Austal Ships has delivered the first of two multi-purpose Auto Express 65m high-speed ferries to the Sultanate of Oman, with the second vessel to follow shortly.
Ships Monthly, 15 July 2008
July 2008 News
Solent Towage Ltd welcomed another new vessel to its Southampton fleet at the end of April when the high performance Voith escort tug Apex arrived from the Gondan shipyard in Spain.
Ships Monthly, 20 June 2008
NEWS: Three Queens in Southampton
Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen victoria gather in Southapmpton for the first and last time on what was a uniue day for the south coast port.
Ships Monthly, 6 May 2008
May 2008 News
Just before finally taking delivery of Clipper Point from Spanish builders Astilleros de Huelva, Seatruck moved to a new phase of its fleet expansion programme by placing a March contract with Germany's Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft for four new generation ro-ro ferries to be delivered between November 2011 and June 2012.
Ships Monthly, 14 April 2008
April 2008 News
Prospects for successfully salvaging the ro-ro freight ferry Riverdance, aground on the North Shore at Blackpool since the last day of January, were looking increasingly remote at the beginning of March.
Ships Monthly, 13 March 2008
March 2008 News
Seatruck Ferries brought in an 11-strong team from Dutch salvage specialist SMIT, to begin preparations to refloat ro-ro freight ferry Riverdance (1977/6,041gt), which grounded off Blackpool in stormy conditions on the night of 1 February.
Ships Monthly, 18 February 2008
February 2008 News
Dutch contractors Smit Salvage started operations to remove the stern section of the wreck of MSC Napoli from Lyme Bay on the Devon coast in early November 2007.
Ships Monthly, 8 January 2008
January 2008 News
The Liberian-flagged expedition cruise ship Explorer, known as 'The Little Red Ship', sank on 23 November, 20 hours after ice reportedly twice struck and pierced the starboard side of her hull.
Ships Monthly, 14 December 2007
December 2007 News
Many of the Royal Navy's capabilities were demonstrated during a busy two-week period at the end of September/beginning of October.
Ships Monthly, 8 November 2007
November 2007 News
Queen Elizabeth 2 completed a historic round Britain cruise to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her launch by HM The Queen on 20 September 1967.
Ships Monthly, 11 October 2007
October 2007 News
The multi-function tender Galatea was delivered to Trinity House at Harwich at the end of July, one year after being launched at Stocznia Remontowa, Poland.
Ships Monthly, 21 September 2007
September 2007 News
To celebrate her maritime heritage, Liverpool played host to a group of eight tall ships over the weekend of 16-17 of June. This was a taster event prior to Liverpool hosting the start of the Tall Ships Race in 2008. Due to construction work taking place at the Albert Dock complex, the ships were berthed in the slightly run-down Wellington and Sandon Docks.
Ships Monthly, 10 August 2007
July 2007 News
On 4 May, the long-awaited naming ceremony and introduction into service of Caledonian MacBrayne's second new vessel for the Wemyss Bay-Rothesay service, Argyle, took place.
Ships Monthly, 18 June 2007
June 2007 News
Royal Caribbean International continued its assault on the world cruise market with the introduction of its latest megaship, Liberty of the Seas, the second of the Freedom class vessels.
Ships Monthly, 17 May 2007
May 2007 News
In late February, Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines took delivery of its 22nd 'Fun Ship', the 110,000gt Carnival Freedom, from Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard in Italy.
Ships Monthly, 3 May 2007
April 2007 News
Superfast X has been replaced on Superfast Ferries' thrice-weekly Rosyth-Zeebrugge passenger and vehicle service by Blue Star 1 from Blue Star Ferries. The new vessel on the route made her first departure from the Belgian port on 29 January.
Ships Monthly, 29 March 2007
March 2007 News
P&O Cruises' parent Carnival Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for a new 116,000gt ship to be delivered by its Monfalcone yard at a cost of EUR535m.
Ships Monthly, 8 February 2007
February 2007 News
The next stage in Tallink's ferry expansion strategy, a shuttle for the Tallinn-Helsinki service, saw the company's new vessel Star christened and floated out on 23 November 2006. Star is a step up in capacity and speed and will shake up the market between the Finnish and Estonian capitals.
Ships Monthly, 16 January 2007
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