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eaders will notice that this issue of
Ships Monthly is dated Summer- However, it is not an extra
issue, but has been inserted into
the schedule so that subsequent cover
dates are more accurate. The next issue will
be the August one, and will be published
on the third Friday of July, so will be on
sale during August itself. This change will
mean that future cover dates will match the
months during which they are on sale, and
is in response to readers which are unsure
which issue is the current one.
With the summer comes the opportunity
to visit and indeed travel on a few ships,
and paddlers, as featured on pages 20-21,
offer good opportunities to get on the water
for a day trip. The best known, Waverley,
continues her summer programme of trips,
and remains as popular as ever, especially on
the Clyde and west coast of Scotland.
Few people will get the opportunity to
travel on a cargo ship or tanker. But Ian
Buxton did, and his interesting voyage report
on Shell Marketer, from the 1980s, can be
found on pages 58-61, while Richard Webber
visited the cargo vessels supplying the island
of Alderney, as recounted on pages 54-57.
Whatever ship you board this summer,
I hope you enjoy fi ne weather and frash air.Nicholas Leach
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Russell Plummer
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cruise on Canberra in 1964.
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and writing about ships for
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who taught
at Newcastle
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