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Issue One
 
  • Packet of History; the King Orry of 1913.
  • Memories of the farewell to the King Orry Weekend.
  • Llandudno to Douglas and the Jolly Rodger.
  • Manxman; the Wilderness Years.
  • Photo feature; Manxman after the Steam Packet.
  • Winter sailing on the Lady of Mann.
  • Round the Island on the Lady of Mann.
  • Packet Link; The St. Tudno of 1926.
  • Arrivals and Departures July /August 1973
  • IOMSPCo Wordsearch.
  • Packet Link; Balmoral on the Irish Sea May 2000.
  • Messages from the Past.
  • Trials and Tribulations of a Steam Packet Regular.   

Issue Two

  • Shipping News

  • Voyage Reports Heysham to Douglas and Douglas to Liverpool.

  • More MANXMAN at Pallion

  • Steam Packet Sailing Memories

  • Did you know that .....

  • A Packet of History - The LADY OF MANN of 1930

  • Yet more trials and tribulations of a Steam Packet regular.

  • Douglas Harbour and a Packet of Ships

  • LADY OF MANN an Appreciation

  • Packet Link: Memories of the ST.TUDNO

  • Douglas Harbour Traffic Figures July - December 2000

  • Welcome to the RAPIDE

  • Ships of Mann Quiz

  • End of an Era

  • Steam All The Way

  • Sea Routes between North Wales and Mann 1830 to 2000 - part 1

Issue Three   

  • From the 1930's- photographs

  • Shipping News

  • Packet of History- the Mona's Queen of 1934

  • Llandudno in the 1930's

  • Scary sailing on the St. Seiriol

  • Traffic through Douglas Harbour- January to June

  • Memoirs of a Steam Packet Season Ticket Holder in the 1930's

  • Lady of Mann Refit 2001.

  • Dynamo-Cycle-Aerial- Steam Packet Ships at Dunkirk

  • Sailing Arrangements from July 1964.

  • Sea Routes between North Wales and Mann- Part 2

  •  Packet Link -Moondancing to the River- two days with Seatruck Ferries.

  • A new Year Sailing on the Lady.

  • Postcard from the Past featuring the Ramsey Town

  • In the Wake of the La Marguerite-  the sailings of the the Waverley from Liverpool

Issue Four   

  • Ben My Chree (V) Voyage Report

  • Memories of the Steam Packet (Part One)

  • Modelling the Orry

  • Ben my Chree Third Time Lucky

  • Memories of Wartime service on the Lady of Mann

  • Memoirs of a Steam Packet Season ticket Holder in the 1930's

  • Mezeron Limited - Ship Owners

  • Liverpool & North Wales Steamers (Part 2)

  • Sea Routes between North Wales and Mann

  • Postcards from the past

  • Viking / Vindex

  • Latest news and traffic figures

  • plus much more............

Issue Five   

  • News

  • Part Two of Ian Burn's VIKING/VINDEX review

  • Sea Routes between North Wales & Mann

  • The End of the Pier - The final Llandudno sailing of the MANXMAN

  • Four wonderful images of MARY THE QUEEN by Chris Baines

  • Memories of the Steam Packet part two by Valerie Bromley

  • Update of the Manxman Steamship Company   

Issue Six

  • News Update (August 2002 - January 2003)

  • Voyage Report : Whitehaven to Douglas (23/5/2002)

  • Traffic through Douglas Harbour

  • The King Orry (5) Revisited in Italy

  • The Silver Jubilee Remembered

  • Their ships have red funnels with black tope too - Calmac

  • Winter Sailing (March 2001)

  • Manx Maid and Ben My Chree visited 5/11/83

  • Postcards from the past

Issue Seven

  • News update from February - August 2003

  • The Silver Jubilee Remembered (by George Boswell)

  • The Fenella of 1936

  • Sunny Saturday Mornings (by David Mark Hayden)

  • Part 2 of Adrian Sweeney's Scottish voyages

  • Report on the Round Island cruise operated by Manxman Steamship Company

  • Details of the Sale of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company

  • Memories of a model maker (by Ron Eyre)

  • Irish Sea Log (by Bernard Allan)

Issue Eight

  • News summary August 2003 - February 2004

  • Steam Packet Memories 1949 - Neil Ralphs

  • A wind of change - Captain Peter Corrin

  • Memories of a queen - Rob Fleming

  • The night the Lady helped the Manxman - John Entwistle

  • The Stewart Travels 2003 - David Stewart

  • Fleetwood Day Trip 2003 - Nige Fallon

  • Slow Boat to Preston - Dave Molyneux

  • The Whistle - Chris Little

  • Memories of a model maker part 2 - Ron Eyres

  • Monas Isle - Kev Bennett

  • Contracting Memories - Alec Fuller

  • And more.....

Issue Nine

  • News summary  February 2004 - August 2004

  • Photo Feature - Peel Castle leaves Douglas for the last time

  • Ships of the Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Company (Part 3)

  • Tynwald Revisited

  • A nostalgic journey by Ian Hall

  • The mysterious tragedy of the Ellan Vannin

  • Every farewell if the birth of a memory by Nigel Hughes

  • Contracting Memories - Alec Fuller (Part 2)

  • And more.....

Issue Ten

  • News summary  September 2004 - February 2005

  • The Manxman - Golden Jubilee

  • Lifeline - after the 175th by Steam Packet MD Hamish Ross

  • For our tomorrow we gave our today - Tynwald & Fenella by Nigel Hughes

  • A Manx Odyssey by Philip Welsh

  • The Top 10 Isle of Man Boats ever !!! (Well in the opinion of Ships of Mann anyway)

  • Contracting Memories - Alec Fuller (Part 3)

  • The Mona's Isle of 1830 - By Adrian Sweeney

  • And more.....

Issue Eleven

  • A year by year review of the life of the ship

  • A Family Day Out by Adrian Sweeney

  • Full colour images of the life of Lady of Mann and her different liveries

  • Rolling Round the Baily - A review of a Dublin trip by John Luxton

  • Readers reviews of the Lady'y Specials week 2005

  • A Decade of Last Sailings by Philip Welsh

  • Manx Marine News

  • And more..........

Issue Twelve

  • Manx Maritime News (August 2005 - February 2006)

  • Manxman of 1904

  • Goodbye to an old friend by Ryan Hagedorn

  • Lady of Mann - The final chapter

  • A Profile of Gerry Bouwman - Llandudno ticket agent

  • Morpeth Memories Photo Feature

  • Press cuttings from the past

Issue Thirteen

  • Manx Maritime News (February - August 2006)

  • A Bigger Ben-my-Chree

  • The Liverpool Landing Stage

  • Manx Memories 1927-1994

  • Memories of a Llandudno - Douglas excursion

  • Reporting the  loss of three heroines

  • The View from the Crewf

  • And more..........

Issue Fourteen

  • Manx Maritime News (September 2006 - February 2007)

  • Origins of the Manxman - Fenella & Tynwald

  • Lady of Mann - The last day

  • Panagia Soumela

  • Twenty Five years of visiting Douglas by Kev Bennett

  • TT and IOMSPC 100 years not out

  • And more..........

Issue Fifteen

  • Manx Maritime News (February 2007 - August 2007)

  • Nest stop Salford - Lady of Mann's Manchester Ship Canal Passage

  • Superintenant Marine Engineers reports from 1967

  • Misc. ramblings on the Irish Sea

  • We're going off 13S - Memories of a first officer

  • Origins of the Manxman part two

  • And more..........

Issue Sixteen

  • SOM interviews Mark Woodward - Steam Packet CEO
  • The story of the Yarrow of Douglas, Dublin and Silloth Steamship Company
  • The Fiesta formerly Mona's Queen
  • Ship Spotting Mersey style
  • King Orry 5
Issue Seventeen

      * Happy Holidays - Ray Swinburn looks back at proper holidays in Douglas.

      *Ben-My-Chree - The First Ten Years.

      *Mona's Queen to Manchester - Frank Purser remembers.

      *Fleetwood Day Trip 2nd July 2008 - Kev Bennett reports.

      *The Cat's Back - Ian Collard and a sailing from Suez to Portsmouth.

      * Origins of the Manxman Part Three - The King Orry and Mona's Queen.

      *And More...     

     Issue Eighteen      

     * Superintendent Engineers Report of Steamers for Season 1967 Part Three.

     * The Pointed and Blunt Ends of Life - female perspective on the Steam Packet

     * Top Cat to Manx Cat!

     * The Lady of Ostend.

     * A Packet of History - the Victoria of 1907.

     * The Blackpool Steam Navigation Company in the 1930's.

      plus the usual features and more!

      Issue Nineteen

    * M/V Peveril - The Money Box by Bob Ellsmore

    * Superintendent Engineers Report of Steamers for Season 1967 Part Four.

    *A Day of Firsts on the Ben-My-Chree by Kev Bennett.

    * Captain Tommy Harrison - an Appreciation by Dave Worth

    *Colby Cubbin and his Fleet of Ships by John Kelly

    * Impressions of Manannan by John Luxton

    * The Link Span Saga by Stan Basnett

    * Steam Packet Scottish Connections -Part One

    plus all the usual features and more!

     Issue Twenty

     * A Day in the Life of the Steam Packet

     *Manannan Round the Island

     *Sea Trials of the Lady of Mann 1930

     *Origins of the Manxman Part Four

     *Fastcraft of the Steam Packet

     *Two Steam Packets One Heritage

     * The Demise of the Tynwald

   plus all the usual features and more!