A lifetime of extraordinary discoveries on the ocean floor. Expertise that helped find the Derbyshire.

A well-known textbook for students preparing for Officer of the Watch qualifications and maritime degrees.

This new book tells the remarkable story of the design and construction of the many merchant ships that not only contributed to their country’s war efforts, but were also responsible for a cultural change in world shipbuilding that would lay the foundations for the post-war industry.

George Thompson Jnr's Incomparable Shipping Line

'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?'

By Ian Collard