Merseyside's coastal location means it has always played an important strategic role for the British military. As a port city ...

People find thimbles, Roman hairpins, shards of 17th-century German glazed stoneware, keys, padlocks, coins, clay pipes, guns ...

Soon British ships were sent upriver to test the strength of local ... landing of two British boats with one boat being ...

One of the most famous swords was the Cutlass, used by naval men for centuries but made famous by pirates. The overall build ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

The important role of women on board ship during the Royal Navy's heyday in the 1700s and 1800s has often been overlooked. As ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Containers are the basis of goods movement globally, available in numbers and able to fit on a wide range of vessel types and ...

And in his first game of the season, he went bang. Rodda posted a sparkling century in Premier Cricket fourth grade, hitting 102 from 135 deliveries against Carlton on Saturday. Geelong ...

For nearly a century, a Japanese ship’s voyage to rescue some 800 Russian children caught up in the turmoil of the wake of the Russian Revolution remained lost in history. But the humanitarian ...