This book is an anthology written by various people working in that business and would be of interest to professional photographers,...

This is an excerpt from my latest book Tales from Great Passenger Ships. This tells the stories of 36 famous passenger ships: By 1965 I...

Below another excerpt from my book Tales from the Great Passenger Ships, published by History Press. This book tells the story of 36...

Hard to understand why today when a book is published in Europe before Christmas, it takes until now for it to go on sale in print and...

There has been a lot of speculation and promotions by book sellers on the internet for the last few months, but I can now reveal that my...

For both passenger and cargo shipping the bid for carbon-neutral designs has been making great strides. Apart from new fuels, more and...

Looking alone at the sea boiling up at the stern at is something you should never do at night. If you spend too long, the sparkling,...

IT IS 1963. I am an 18 year old ship’s photographer, enjoying a quiet stroll of the deserted open decks of my ship as she rapidly...

Great to see visitors returning to the Mary after her recent years of surviving a dangerous passage. I thought this would be a good...

On the day of my birthday, amongst the surprises was an advance copy of my latest book to be released November 25th. It's called Around...

Sorting through my old files I found three different copies of the English Weekly Illustrated with stories on the build of the Queen...

I asked John Quirk when he was doing the illustrations for my new book, Better Boating Blunders, to please do me a drawing illustrating...

30 knots on the nose in a steep sea running against the wind can raise your attention level, but it's much easier to deal with then...

While Covid has kept me from writing about Big Ships, it did at least give me a chance to finish a book on small boats. Sadly, I must...

I recently asked a question on the FB pages of a number of ship enthusiast sights about what they thought of the growing trend to adorn...

This photo of the famous Mid-Atlantic crossings of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth put me in mind of a painting by that great marine...

Pacific Princess to Survive! One of the most loved small cruise ships and one of the last small ships left offering reasonably low-cost...

Borrowing an old line popularised by Freddie Mercury, it was sad to see that the first brand new ship ordered by a fledgling Carnival...

Rollei toting Bing was a keen photographer and used to haunt the darkroom on the Elizabeth and Mary when crossing the Atlantic. You can...