Nineteen Keys and the Lure of a Furious Sea.

Conventional wisdom has it that any ocean liner's design must be constrained by limiting dimensions. The turning basin at Southampton, ...

Cunard line was taken over by Carnival Corporation in 1998 who recognised the value of the brand and appreciated such a glorious nautical he...

The advent of the jet aircraft was the death knell of the great liners and Cunard, committed to the construction of Queen Mary's replace...

In late August 1939, the Queen Mary was on a return run from New York to Southampton. However, the international situation led to her being...

In the 1930's, the race was on. The greatest transportation route on earth was between the United States and Europe, as indeed it is to...

Between the wars, a magnificent contest developed between those most intractable of adversaries, Great Britain and France, for the coveted B...

HMS Dorsetshire was ordered to pick up Bismarck survivors, so the heavy cruiser slowly sailed into the mass of humanity in the water where t...