Author: William H. Miller

At a time when everything is constantly changing, it can be comforting to look back. British Passenger Liners in Colour is just that: a look back a...

The British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, dating from 1862, was one of Britains largest and most important shipping firms and has been ow...

The early 1930s could not have been worse for shipping. With the coming of the Depression, the North Atlantic had grown very short of its most prec...

This is the story of the last class-divided passenger ships that carried travellers from point to point. In the final years of activity, spanning f...

It is hard to think of the passenger liners from the golden era of Mediterranean cruising without also conjuring the nostalgic, dream-like vision o...

The SS United States was a great symbol of post-World War II American genius. She was the most advanced ocean liner of her timemodern, innovative a...

Cunard, the most famous name in shipping, turns 175 years old in 2015. Cunard began back in 1840 with paddlewheel steamers, but grew and progressed...

This illustrated and colourful history charts the hey-day of the great liners, those grand and lavish vessels that cruised around the world carryin...

Freighters of the 1950s and 60s with masts, booms and hatches were the last of their generation. It was the end of an era, just before the massiv...

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most lu...

2008 was a magical year for Cunard. For the first time, the line had three Queens in service: Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria. Q...

The period from the end of the Second World War to the late 1960s marked a golden era for the traditional port-to-port class-divided passenger ship...

The worldwide cruise industry is booming-alone, there are some 56 new cruise ships being built or planned (2018). Cruise ships visit ports around t...

The 1950s was a fascinating decade for the great liners. After the global devastation of two decades of war and Depression, shipyards were creating...

Entering service in 1938, the Nieuw Amsterdam was the Holland America Line flagship until the construction of the Rotterdam in the late 1950s. Her ...

The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892. In the peak years of immigration to the United St...

It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to the South African Cape. Carrying passengers as...

Built in 1952 for the United States Lines, the SS United States was unlike any other ocean liner. She had been designed from the outset to serve as...