Woodman: went to sea in 1960 as a midshipman with Liverpool-based Alfred Holt & Co, the Blue Funnel Line Captain Richard Woodman, who has died aged 80, was a gifted and adventurous seaman, a prolific ...

Motivate Publishing has launched a new book titled Seafarers of the Emirates by award-winning author, Ronald Codrai. The book highlights the last years of the seafarers' before the changing times ...

The U.S. Maritime Commission needs 40,000 more seamen and 10,000 more licensed officers to man the 1,200 new merchantmen which will slide down the ways in 1942-43. It will have to look alive to find ...

Man of-the-sea Hans Skalagard soon will turn 90, no thanks to Adolf Hitler's navy. All through World War II, German submarines tried their best to blow up and sink the ships on which Skalagard ...

While we will be remembering the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the British Armed Forces who lost their lives in conflict on Sunday, November 9, let us also remember the men who served in the ...

MR. BULKELEY AND THE PIRATE —edited by B. D. Roberts—Oxford ($3). THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN NICOL, MARINER—edited by Alexander Laing—Farrar & Rinehart ($4). In the attics and among the heirlooms ...