Recently in Maritime Category
THE first book to deal explicitly with the relationship between Titanic and her home port of Liverpool has just been published.
It's written by Dr Alan Scarth of Merseyside Maritime Museum and puts the legendary White Star liner in the context of transatlantic migration from Liverpool to North America.
THE Isle of Man post office has released a new set of stamps marking the 100-year anniversary since the sinking of Ellan Vannin, which was sailing between the Isle of Man and Liverpool when she vanished.
The disaster was immortalised in song by Hughie Jones of the Liverpool folk band The Spinners, who runs a folk club in the Everyman Bistro each Tuesday evening.
In 1909, the 339-ton passenger and cargo steamer Ellan Vannin fought through a hurricane in a bid to get to Liverpool and then vanished.
APOLOGIES for running this post a little late but I just spotted this piece on Mauretania's 70th anniversary that I knew would appeal to maritime history fans...
IT WAS an event to lighten the gloom of not only the people of Merseyside, but across a country hit by the world Depression.
Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of RMS Mauretania's maiden voyage on June 17, 1939, from Liverpool to New York, commanded by Capt AT Brown.
Video taken on board Mauretania in 1956, taken from the Cruise Line History website
The event gave hope to millions that better times were returning, in spite of the new threat of war.
LIVERPOOL'S Lost Dock is being opened to the public for the first time in 200 years.
Te first glimpse for centuries of the world's first commercial enclosed wet dock will be unveiled tomorrow.
The Old Dock opened in 1715 and marked the beginning of Liverpool's rise to become an international seaport. Its construction was a technological innovation and represented the start of Liverpool as a Maritime Mercantile City.
Read more about the opening here, and here are some more pictures of the dock.
I RECEIVED an intriguing email from Dave Lovett in response to my blog post Have You Heard of the Superintendent Steward Club?"
He writes: "I noted on your blog that Valerie Stern is looking for information concerning Henry Brown, who happens also to be my great-grandfather.
CAN anybody help Valerie Stern of New Jersey, US, who had sent me an email about her great-grandfather, Henry Brown, chief steward for the Cunard Line c.1890-1901.
He served on Carmania, Caronia, Lusitania, and Mauretania, and his title in the 1891 Census of Bootle was "Superintendent Steward Club". Valerie is trying to find any record of what and where this club was (if it was a club at all).
She says she has written to the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Sydney Jones Library at the
University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Record Office, all to no avail. Can anyone help her?
FASCINATING objects salvaged from the seabed around the wreck of the Titanic, 2.5 miles below the surface of the ocean, will go on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum tomorrow.
The exhibits are a wrist watch, spectacles, a White Star Line cup, lead ventilation grill, a gold wristwatch, five tie pins and a five dollar banknote.
Flying Breeze tender takes Christmas hampers from the Mersey Mission to Seamen out to the Mersey Bar lightship Planet, December 1959. Code: tmc201206lookback.JPG
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JUNE WILLIAMS was just four years old when her father bought a small estate near Chester for £3,500 and began transforming it into a zoo.
Now in her 80s, she has commissioned a book about her unusual childhood featuring many wonderful photographs of her playing with chimpanzees and holding her favourite lion cub, Christie.
THESE photographs of the warship Illustrious, on her recent visit to Liverpool, were sent in by Sheffield-based student Alex McKenzie in case they inspired people's memories of serving in the armed forces.
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Laura Davis - Laura Davis is the Liverpool Daily Post's Arts Editor and 02 Digital Journalist of the Year 2009, which is in a large part due to this blog. She has a long-standing interest in local history and is keen to learn more about your own memories or discoveries about the history of Liverpool and the surrounding area.
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