A programmed text on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 with amendments in force from November 2003.

This book provides instructions both in the principals of navigation and in the way to use, with speed and accuracy, all the various techniques involved in putting those principals into practice.

The evolution of this practice into today's tradition of breaking a bottle of wine against the bow of a ship before launch, still symbolising sacrifice, is explored as well as the now widely practised custom of inviting ladies to name and launch new ships.

On 14 April 1912 the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle.

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Richard Woodman's masterly account of the history of the Marine Society written to commemorate our 250th anniversary.