Maritime History

By the end of the nineteenth century the British Merchant Navy had become the world's largest carrier of people, manufactured goods and raw materia...

Titanic was meant to be another success in a litany of past glories for the White Star Line. Her fate was an unexpected shock and global tragedy, e...

At a time when the Royal Navy was the biggest and best in the world, Georgian London was the hub of this immense industrial-military complex, under...

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...

Without Henry Vs Navy, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened. Henrys fleet played a major if often unrecognised part in enabling the ...

In August 1710, the Nottingham Galley set sail for New England. It did not reach its destination, as fierce weather struck and the fourteen men on ...

The coasts of Scotland are a goldmine for fishing boats new and old, and this latest selection from James Pottinger covers a huge variety of them ...

When the Queen Elizabeth 2 entered service in 1969 she was the last of the great transatlantic liners and the sole survivor of a bygone era. The mo...

Oceanic was the largest ship in the world when she was launched in 1899. The White Star Lines Ship of the Century, she was their last express liner...

In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the th...

WE have been cruising and exploring polar waters since the nineteenth century, but very little has been written about them. Drawing on expert resea...

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King Johns galleys to se...

The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of The Great Unknown below. Before the scrutiny of scient...

Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: ...

Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed...

After the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, the story hit the headlines worldwide. Details of the tragedy were displayed on the front pages of every n...

Cunards first ship, Britannia, set sail across the Atlantic on 4 July 1840, inaugurating a service that has endured for 175 years. Cunards success ...

The North American cruise industry is the largest sector of the trade by a long way. Of the 2007 cruise market, which totalled over 16 million, US ...

This book tells the story of the North Norfolk fishing industry within living memory, compiled using numerous interviews with the fishermen themsel...

On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The l...

For over 180 years images of strong, selfless males have populated the reports and literature of the lifeboat service. What has not been so well do...

Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...

The north-west coast of England is renowned for a number of reasons, not the least being its fierce storms with the inevitable loss of life, damage...

The story of the ill-fated liner Titanic is one that has been told and retold countless times it is hard to imagine that there could be any new st...

During the Second World War, the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the British armed forces, but despite this extraordina...

A compelling new look at the principal features of the Midlands and border canals and the people who built them. This fascinating book delves into ...

This colourful history covers the SS United States active service from 1952 to 1969 when she dominated the seas of Atlantic, sweeping all rivals be...

Radio Caroline was the worlds most famous pirate radio station during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, but did the thousands of people tuning in re...

The Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock produced over 250 warships for the Royal Navy, including five royal yachts, between its founding in 1814 and it...

Think of a major shipping disaster and the first to spring to mind is that of the Titanic; however, only two years later, a tragedy of similarly ep...

On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from Cork with 200 male prisoners on board. When it dropped anchor off Sydney Cove four mont...

Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic, was described by another survivor as the real hero of the Titanic. After taking an active role in the ev...

This fascinating book provides a unique record of the careers and final underwater resting places of ships of the Cunard Line, whose rich history s...

This long-awaited book tells the remarkable story of the second Mauretania (193865): her construction, her naming, her maiden voyage and her distin...

For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from ...

On the night of 1415 April 1912, Titanic, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, ...

''The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.'' - International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTHE...

The story of more than sixty years of diving adventures, through starkly contrasting locations and extraordinary advances in technology. From boyho...

Belfast has a long and proud shipbuilding heritage, this industry holding a strong place in Belfasts identity and popular culture. There were three...

From the days of sail to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century, this is a history of British sea travel from a passengers point of vie...

Titanic. The Marilyn Monroe of ocean liners. A sleek, sultry beauty, taken out way before her time. A kind of 21st century Flying Dutchman, with in...

England and Wales have long been captivated by the lighthouse, with many of the towers built at the countries extremities seen as iconic structures...

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...