News Round-up: News of the next class of destroyer for the Royal Navy; a ship that ran aground on the island of Anglesey and the owners were fined; Merchant Navy Day; and an uncertain future awaits an historic sailing ship, presently berthed in Scotland.
Incidents around the coast
Fumess Withy to the Pacific North-west.
Ships failed port safety checks.
Merchant Navy 1932.
The latest ferry from Incat Australia.
Awards for lifeboat crew.
The FotoFlite File, four pages of ships of today and yesterday.
A new ferry from famous Italian shipyard.
Built for cruising Pacific Northwest rivers.
Operation Sealion, a d the Channel sea war.
Piracy on the increase.
Evacuation of homes as burning tanker drifted towards shore.
Merchant Navy of Yesterday: Ships of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
Warships of Yesterday.
Letters and Readers Requests.
Maritime marketplace.
FRONT: The I neat-built wave-piercing ferry Seacat Tasmania underway in the Channel; built in 1990 for the Sea Containers subsidiary Tasmanian Ferry Services, the ferry was renamed SeaCat Calais in 1993 and operated on the Channel, and in 1994, she became the Atlantic 11, on charter to
a Uruguay company for a service across the River Plate - see Page 18.
BACK: A Royal Navy Type 23 frigate underway; the newest destroyers for the Royal Navy will be the Type 45, see News Round-up.