Ships & Boats: General Interest

As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. As we...

The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons. The Olympic Class liners we...

An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy....

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 very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful or in other respects special de...

A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina LowcountryCompleted in 1800, the Santee Canal prov...

There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the wor...

The Dover Straits is the resting place for many wrecks and this book reveals the stories behind a selection of these unfortunate vessels. This high...

The disaster which befell RMS _Titanic_ has become one of the most investigated and analysed maritime tragedies of all time. Yet there is much stil...

For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallo...

Is there a doctor who wouldnt want to work on a cruise ship sailing to Rio? Ruth sets off on the voyage of a lifetime with her husband, Tom, yearni...