In the early 1970s the shipping industry around the world was facing a crisis following competiti...

A fascinating collection of images, most of which are previously unpublished, documenting the ico...

Sealink's antecedents go back to the packet boats of the days before steam. The invention of the ...

From William Makepeace Thackeray's first cruise to Egypt on a P&O vessel to the advent of World W...

A history of Cammell Laird's shipyard

The busy River Mersey and its two ports, Liverpool and Birkenhead, have seen great changes in rec...

A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical phot...

A history of the famous Liverpool cargo line.

This is a book about life in a great maritime port of the 1960s. The photographs from the period ...

A wonderful collection of images looking at the history of coastal shipping in the UK.

Founded in 1838 in Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to operate steam...

ELLERMAN LINES was formed by John Reeves Ellerman at the end of the nineteenth century. Ellerman ...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the centre of Liv...

A unique and charming look at the history of Birkenhead and its inhabitants, through a fascinatin...

A photographic history of the Mersey docks. Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in ...

The fascinating history of Wallasey illustrated through old and modern pictures.

The history of the great shipping groups of the nineteenth century is about family dynasties, bus...

Rare and previously unpublished images of the famous port of Southampton, which is United Kingdom...

A guided tour of Liverpool City Centre, showing how it has changed over the past century and more.

A pocket-sized, illustrated history tour of Wallasey showing how the town has changed across the ...

A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that ingeniously reflect the change...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Liverpool Landing...

Ian Collard looks at the cruise ships of the iconic Cunard line.

Covering the Golden Age of the British Cruise Ship, Ian Collard takes us through the transition f...

Utilising a selection of rare and previously unpublished images, maritime historian Ian Collard d...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Port of Dover...

A nostalgic look at Mersey Shipping Through Time

Ian Collard looks at the cruise ships of the iconic P&O brand.

A pocket-sized, illustrated history tour around Birkenhead highlighting places of interest and sh...

The fascinating history of a famous Liverpool coastal shipping line.

Over the past 100 years, the Isle of Man has developed from a collection of fishing villages to o...

The story of the Borough of Wallasey including New Brighton and Liscard from old photographs.

Rare and previously unpublished images throughout, this book tells the fascinating history of the...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, ...

With many rare and previously unpublished images this book celebrates the famous ferry operator S...

The first tugs were built at the beginning of the nineteenth century because of the development o...

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board was created in 1858, becoming a limited company in 1972. There f...

Utilising many rare and unpublished images, Ian Collard offers a lavishly illustrated look at the...

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Mersey tugs have ...