Ships Monthly magazine, October 1978 issue, Volume 13 number 10. 48 pages.

Condition: The magazine is in very good condition with a light crease on the top right corner (see photos).

Articles in this issue include:

• Today's Navy - HMS Ardent
• Frontispiece: Taras Shevchenko (Soviet passenger ship)
  
• On the Waterfront - including Navarino (Karageorgis Line), Guayas (Ecuadorean tall ship), and more
  
• European Commentary -Balmoral, Viking Victory, Sir Walter Scott, and more
  
• Under Sail - Danmark, Will, Carrick, and more
• Naval Review - Ark Royal, HMS Victory, and more
  
• Guide to ships of the Royal Navy - part 2 Amphibious Craft and Missile Ships
  
• Ship Sales -Prudential Grace Lines sells 4 Santa class passenger/cargo ships to Delta Lines, and more
• Soviet Passenger Ships - Kazakhstan, Odessa, Leonid Sobinov, Mikhail Lermontov, Maksim Gorkiy, Ayvazovskiy, and more
• Campaign for the Lincoln Castle (coal fired paddle ferry)
• The Winds of Change Part 2 (review of the Royal Navy in the 1950's)
• Still In Steam - Trillium
  
• Casualties
• Where to See the Big Ships
  
• Maritime Diary
• Reader's Album -Passenger Ships (Empress of Britain, Mauretania, Olympic, Queen Mary, Empress of England, and more
• Ship's Library
• Yesterday's Naqvy - HMS Vanquisher in 1935