Editorial staff
Our staff journalists
Bill Thomson: After several years in engineering design and technical authorship, Bill’s first journalistic position was at Motor Boat & Yachting magazine. He first joined the staff of The Motorship in 1990, and after a few years he moved to become editor of Marine Propulsion and Small Ships magazines. He later edited Safety at Sea International and a couple of other marine and transport titles for the same company, before turning freelance and editing Ship & Boat International for RINA as well as Marine Propulsion under its new owner. He has also worked on magazines and events in the power generation industry.
When Mercator Media acquired The Motorship in 2007, Bill fulfilled a long-held ambition to return to the magazine as editor.
Paul Van Dyck. Technical Editor of The Motorship is an experienced technical marine journalist with seafaring experience in the merchant navy as junior deck officer. Writing for The Motorship as technical editor since February 2001 and deputy editor since 2004. Previously employed as new buildings editor with Fairplay for four years, ten years in the ports industry with the Medway Ports Authority, and many years in the export, shipping and forwarding industry.
