Book of the Month February 2025. Lightships guided ships of all nations past offshore reefs and sandbanks that posed extreme hazards to navigation where lighthouses could not be built. This book describes their design, construction and evolution over more than two centuries of service.

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Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.

Look through these photographs and you will quickly see the unique appeal of England’s coastline.

Andrew Gladwell gives us a flavour of pleasure steamer day trips of a bygone era.

This follow-up to Alistair Deayton’s David MacBrayne history tells the story of the other constituent company of CalMac, whose vessels, with their blacktipped yellow funnels, once flourished on the Clyde, sailing to Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Argyll.

The incredible story of a 3,500-mile cycle ride to explore the onshore and offshore lighthouses around the coastline of England and Wales, proving that a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis doesn't mean giving up on a lifelong dream.

Jones reveals the stories behind the shipping disasters in the Solent.

In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives. The book of the Month June 2024.

George Elliot was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings as a pit boy in England's north-east to become one of the biggest coal owners in the world.