Ships & Boats: General Interest

During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along ...

Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing vessels that formed the...

On 8 August 1974, the worlds last seagoing paddle steamer was sold by her owners for the princely sum of a pound. The PS Waverley has now spent mor...

Canadian Pacific was one of the great Atlantic liner companies, sailing out of Liverpool on the St Lawrence route to Montreal and Quebec. With cris...

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the...

The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brun...

Fishing the Severn Sea From Hartland Point to St Anns Head. The Bristol Channel, once one of the busiest fishing lanes in Great Britain, is a comp...

The late nineteenth century saw an unparalleled revolution in warship development as the Victorian navy found itself grappling with intense technic...

Launched as the pride of British shipbuilding and the largest vessel in the world, Olympic was more than 40 per cent larger than her nearest rivals...

This beautifully illustrated history portrays two of the French fleets most glamorous liners in their post-war heyday. Île de France was a ship wit...

This book is a handy guide for the visitor to the extraordinary collection of maritime artefacts housed in a former warehouse on the Hamburg waterf...

Albert Strange (1855-1917) was an accomplished artist, teacher, yacht designer, sailor, and writer, and he left his indelible mark on all these fie...

When we think of our seagoing past, it tends to be about the harbours, docks, and quaysides through which trade passed, or the famous ships such as...

The British Isles have a long, rich and celebrated seafaring history stretching from the earliest times through the victories of Drake and Nelson, ...

The carriage of goods in river barges was for centuries one of the principal forms of commercial transport in Britain. This book is the result of 4...

Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries. Here acclaimed historian Sam Willis traces the astonishing tales of ships that have met wit...

Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th? Why are boats always referred to as 'she'? How do you navigate the ocean without a compass? Does ...