Maritime History

At the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with the British Empire encompassing the globe, the Royal Navy indisputably ruled the waves. Times chan...

In this unparalleled investigation that deconstructs the modern hindsight that has tainted Titanics legacy, Allen Gibson presents a comprehensive h...

The remains of the worlds most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years afte...

Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however,...

An interesting and insightful book exploring the authors efforts to follow in his fathers footsteps and succeed in the tumultuous fishing industry....

This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony o...

In 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arc...

A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guards official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in Americ...

The history of the lifeboat service in Scotland is one of outstanding bravery and tragedy. Bravery, exemplified in the Gold medal-winning rescues b...

A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight...

Sea Devils is a compelling account of pioneer submariners and their astonishing underwater contraptions. Some made perilous voyages. Others sank li...

Founded in 1825 by the 21-year-old George Thompson Jnr, the Aberdeen Line developed over 100 years into one of the best-respected shipping lines in...

In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the great...

Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discov...

This amusing insight into Cunards legendary liners begins more than fifty years ago when Paul Curtis joined the original Queen Mary as entertainmen...