Ships & Boats: General Interest

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...

A fully revised and expanded edition of the only resource you'll need for choosing, owning and maintaining a narrowboat. The UK has over 2000 mi...

Passenger ships have always played a key role in shaping our lives and destinies. From the biggest to the smallest, the most beautiful to the most ...

The 50-mile wide lagoon of Truk Atoll, far out in the remote expanses of the Pacific, is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the wor...

Two things made the battleship possible: the harnessing of steam for propulsion and Britains vast industrial power in the late eighteenth and early...

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the Royal Navy found it required more small craft than it possessed to carry out minesweeping, anti-submarine patro...

Londons docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the existing riverside...

It's Vancouver, Canada in the early 1980s. Greenpeace has just been founded, Bob Geldof has just had his first hit, Ireland is a waste land. Dublin...

From Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by American G...