Ships & Boats: General Interest

This is the story of the men who built Britains canals and railways not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn a...

For three centuries Portsmouth has been the leading base of the Royal Navy but the naval heritage of its port can be traced back to the Roman invas...

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James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging ci...

The curiously named HMS Pickle was the second-smallest British ship in Nelsons fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. She acquired enduring fame, howeve...

From the first proposal that Cork Harbour was more suitable as a naval base than Kinsale, development began which would continue for almost 200 yea...

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