Floating palaces, elegant fashion… and cows falling through the ceiling! The pleasures and pitfalls of the golden age of ocean liners
Fascinating exhibition opens at V&A Museum in London
History
From steel-cutting to maiden voyage – the ten stages of building a cruise ship (and what all those maritime terms and traditions really mean)
Madrinas, coin ceremonies and shakedown voyages explained
A steward on the old Queen Elizabeth takes his ‘cruise virgin’ brother on the new QE – what did they think?
How does the modern ship compare with its predecessor?
A love story that shaped a city: The amazing piece of history hidden in Fort Lauderdale
Driving along the sprawling freeways past vast developments towards the towering ocean-front hotels of Fort Lauderdale, it’s hard to imagine that, a little over a century ago, this was a desolate area full of swamps, […]
How, on QM2, I’ll be travelling in the wake of my grandmother’s voyage on Queen Mary
Dave Monk traces his grandmother’s voyage 61 years ago on Queen Mary as he prepares to do the same transatlantic trip on QM2
Historic rare newspapers from transatlantic liners are published online
Papers used to be printed on the voyage