Author: William H. Miller

The Golden Age of Liner travel was from the early 1900s to the 1950s, a period dominated by black and white photography, with little colour views. ...

The advent of the jet airliner all but killed the liner on the Atlantic route but the ships to Australia survived into the 1970s, not just on the l...

The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North Ameri...

Canadian Pacific was one of the great Atlantic liner companies, sailing out of Liverpool on the St Lawrence route to Montreal and Quebec. With cris...

The 1930s was perhaps the most glamorous and exciting decade for the great liners, highlighted by ferocious international shipbuilding rivalry: Ger...

Celebrating the majestic passenger liners of the twenties, Great Passenger Ships 19201930 looks at well-loved ships, such as Majestic, Olympic, Ber...

France produced some of the finest and best-decorated passenger ships of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1912 with the four-funnel France, the ...

The 1950s and 1960s was the last golden age of ocean liners. It was an age of many modern, superbly designed ships that were created just before th...

It was a golden age of travel. The period from the end of the Second World War to the early 1960s saw some of the finest ocean liners ever built an...

This new series begins with British passenger ship, those great and grand vessels that connected the continents, but also those far-off, colonial o...

America produced some of the worlds finest, most interesting, advanced and innovative passenger ships, such as the brilliant SS United States, the ...

The world of ocean liners, those built for French lines were the epitome of style and panache, and SS Normandie perhaps the pinnacle of this. When ...

This beautifully illustrated history portrays two of the French fleets most glamorous liners in their post-war heyday. Île de France was a ship wit...

The story of the Great Liners begins on the Atlantic route between the Old World and the New, between Europe and the United States. It was the most...

It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. Bigger was said to be better and ship owners were not exem...

An unusual blend of cargo freight, holiday-making passengers and government officials, the combination cargo-passenger ship is an oddity now all bu...

Painted in shades of green and known affectionately as the Green Goddess, Cunards Caronia of 1949 ushered in the era of modern cruising. Designed a...

The 1954 film On the Waterfront brought to life the New York docks of the 1950s, when it was often said that a ship, usually a freighter, arrived o...