Discovering the titanic

UNSINKABLE SHIP

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

TOM CUNLIFFE SIGNS OFF WITH THE TALE OF ONE THE GREATEST FEATS OF SEAMANSHIP OF ALL TIME: THE FIRST SIGHTING OF AMERICA

The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo

One of the most romantic names from the Age of Sail is the Cutty Sark, the 19th-century British tea clipper that sailed across the world. The ship is now a museum in Greenwich, South-East London, but