Ships & Boats: General Interest

Journeying along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, Helen Babbs puts down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. From Waltham...

The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. C...

The 1960s witnessed a magnificent, if misguided, swansong for the ocean liner. As the decade progressed a steady succession of elaborate new ships ...

White Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 for travel to Australia but was eventually purchased by Thomas Ismay and transformed in...

During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White St...

From the moment the iceberg was spotted to the moment Titanics fate was realised, it was a race against time for the 2,208 souls on board.At 11:40 ...

The romantic dream of downsizing, giving up the rat race, and living life at 4mph on the inland waterways is proving more and more attractive. But ...

This is a thought-provoking work, capturing the march of time which overtook the maritime world in the last quarter of the 20th century. The final ...

When a poet or artist is truly able to capture, in words or pictures, mans fight for mastery of the sea, he may be counted by those who fully appre...