Ships and boats: general interest

In the aftermath of the Second World War, paddle steamers in Britain initially did rather well, with four new ones built between 1946 and 1953 and about sixty still in service nationwide.

The traditional cargo-carrying narrowboat - recently voted one of the 100 icons of England - emerged with the construction of the narrow canal network and lasted in until 1970 when the last regular long-distance contract was lost.

Continuing the Steam Days Remembered series with Eastern Steam Days Remembered, Kevin Derrick takes us on a leisurely ramble back around both the Eastern and North Eastern regions during the 1950s and 1960s in this volume.

Alongside the emergence of the railways in the nineteenth century came a huge expansion of docks and shipping.

In the post-war era, there was still a demand for ocean-going travel, not just on the glamorous large liners and mail ships, but also on much smaller ships.

The Great Western is the least known of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's three ships, being overshadowed by the later careers of the Great Britain and the Great Eastern.

Featuring 180 wonderful images, Classic Boats offers an accessible, beautifully illustrated guide to some of the stunning craft that can be seen around the shores of Europe today.

Mit der Erfindung der Freizeitparks erkundet der Leser eine spannende und gleichsam lehrreiche Reise durch die Geschichte von Freizeitparks.

South Wales is historically associated with coal, both in its mining and exporting.

The 1960s were the last decade of what might be called the traditional London docks scene.

Kingswear Castle is one of a number of smaller paddle steamers built in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to provide transport and excursions along some of Britain's most beautiful rivers.

The Pool of London has long been a busy place.

The Bristol Channel has an incredibly rich maritime history, reaching back to when men first went to sea in ships powered by the wind.

Portsmouth Dockyard has a long and distinguished history.

Leith has been Edinburgh's main port since the Middle Ages.

Founded in 1873, the Holland America Line provided services carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North America.

Before the development of canals, railways or metalled roads, the quickest and most effective means of transporting goods from one point to another in Britain was by the use of coastal shipping, shallow-draught boats travelling between the ports of the British Isles.

In 1977, the remote British island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, host to Napoleon and Captain Bligh, and Boer War prisoner-of-war camp, was first served by a lifeline motorship dedicated to the purpose.

This book will appeal to anyone who enjoys small boat cruising, or anyone considering taking up the sport.

It is hard to imagine a more male-dominated field in the nineteenth century than sea navigation.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea.

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom.

The Royal Mail has, for over 500 years, provided a crucial service in keeping people connected by land, sea and air.

Disaster at sea has been a part of maritime life for as long as man has sailed the seas.

Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years.

The main role of the tug is to assist vessels in the river or within the dock system by moving them by pushing or towing.

The 1954 film On the Waterfront brought to life the New York docks of the 1950s, when it was often said that a ship, usually a freighter, arrived or departed every 24 minutes, around the clock.

Great disasters always attract conspiracy theories and this is just as true of disasters at sea as it is of those on land or in the air.

For a hundred years excursion paddle steamers gave all the social classes the opportunity to enjoy a cruise on the briny from ports, resorts and piers around the UK.

There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered.

Comfort is not a measureable quality, mainly because it means different things to different people.

St Mawes Sailing Club was founded in 1920 and has functioned without interruption from that date, with the exception of the war years.

John Cooper takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the towpath of the Grand Union Canal, which meanders through what is arguably one of the most picturesque stretches of inland waterway in the county.

Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years: Tourist Third Cabin offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the Normandie, and the Olympic transported new breeds of tourists between Europe and North America, and dazzled them with their technological marvels and palatial interiors.

With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there.

The Blue Star Line was founded by brothers William and Edmund Vestey in 1911 to ship meat in refrigerated vessels from Australia, New Zealand and South America to the UK.

The Red Book, the twice-yearly newsletter, now the Journal of the West Highland Steamer Club, regularly contained a collection of ship photographs of both everyday and special events in the lives of the MacBrayne vessels which plied the waters of the west coast of Scotland, from charters of vessels like the pioneering 1920s turbine steamer King George V and delivery voyages through the Caledonian Canal to regular ferry voyages.

Growing up in Preston, with its eclectic range of transport, provided well-known local historian David John Hindle with the inspiration to write this book on the transport heritage of Preston.

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue.

William Dampier - buccaneer, journalist, naturalist and explorer - once shocked and delighted the literary world with the scarcely credible tales of his voyages.

It is now a century since the Lusitania sank.

Cornwall's rich waters have always provided a bountiful harvest for its fisherman.

The early 1930s could not have been worse for shipping.

Alfred Mylne the First designed exciting, beautiful yachts, which have won many races over the past 120 years - some are still collecting prizes.

A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many British canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.

On 29 September 1995, the Liverpool dockers, the backbone of Liverpool's revered maritime industry, refused to cross a picket line and were immediately dismissed by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Co.

The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North America.

Fingal represented the last and final 'classic' style of tender once found throughout the three General Lighthouse Authorities of the British Isles.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea.

In May 1940, following the rapid advance of German troops through Holland, Belgium and France, the British Expeditionary Force and French army retreated to Dunkirk.