33 photos of HMCS Sackville, the only surviving World War 2 Flower class anti-submarine corvette. 269 of these rudimentary warships were built in Britain and Canada. Their crews were mainly inexperienced civilian reservists, who gave outstanding service in the Battle of the Atlantic. Ships and men are deservedly immortalised in the book and film 'The Cruel Sea.' Sackville is the Canadian Naval Memorial, and is preserved at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I photographed her in October 2005. Her website is www.hmcssackville-cnmt.ns.ca/.

A small collection featuring 9 ships.

Shots of 40 ships. UPDATED with 22 photos of 13 ships taken in May 2009 between Cannes and Istanbul, including the 1931-built Savarona.

48 photos arranged in three sequences. The first, taken on board QE2, shows QE2 and Queen Mary 2 making a simultaneous departure from Southampton (and receiving fire jet salutes from local tugs). The second sequence, also photographed on QE2, shows her return to Southampton. Finally, the third sequence shows QE2's subsequent departure, photographed from Hythe.

77 photos taken in September and October 2005 on Cunard's new 150,000 ton flagship during a cruise from New York to Canada and New England. Cunard's website is www.cunard.co.uk.

14 night shots of the QM2's first ever visit to the Mersey.

15 photos taken in June 2006 in the Deutsches Musuem, Munich, most of German submarine U1 - the first of a long and deadly line....U1 was built in 1906, the same year as the Royal Navy's revolutionary all big gun battleship HMS Dreadnought. U1 was relegated to training duties before the First World War, and afterwards was preserved, in sectioned form, entombed in the basement of the Deutsches Museum, about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in Germany. Also preserved is a Seehund (=Seal) two man midget submarine, built in 1944.

5 pix taken 2008-9 of three ferries and a gunboat at Samos.

Photos of one of Europe's last passenger train ferry routes, from the Italian mainland to Messina, Sicily. There is a good account of the various ferry services to Sicily at http://www.geocities.com/marinus59/Sicily.htm

9 pictures taken in September 2004 of this ship, preserved in St Petersburg. Aurora has two claims to fame. In October 1917 she fired the starting signal for Lenin's coup d'etat. Preserved for her revolutionary associations, Aurora is now one of the very few warships to have survived from the early 20th century. She has a British counterpart in the 1914 light cruiser Caroline, which survives in Belfast, but is unfortunately not publicly accessible.

There is a good history of Aurora (in English) at www.museum.navy.ru/f1e.htm .

Ten pictures of Swiss ships, mainly Lake Lucerne paddle steamers, all except one taken in June 2004.

10 photos taken at CHATHAM HISTORIC DOCKYARD on 5 May 2003, mainly of HMS CAVALIER, the last surviving ex-Royal Navy DESTROYER in Britain, and PADDLE STEAMER KINGSWEAR CASTLE.

Six pictures, taken in June 2001, of the preserved steel barque Glenlee, built on the Clyde in 1896, and 13 of models of Clyde-built ships photographed in Glasgow Transport Museum in November 2004.

Five photos of activity at Holyhead, and four of the former Heysham - Belfast ferry Duke of Lancaster forlorn at Mostyn. All were taken on 24 March 2007.

Photos of a visit to the former royal yacht, now preserved at Leith near Edinburgh. Website = http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/

Eleven pictures of the final phase of warship building at Barrow. The first five, taken on 3 March 2001, show commando carrier HMS ALBION after her launch, and RFA WAVE KNIGHT fitting out. The remaining six, taken on 31 May 2004, show Albion's sister HMS BULWARK putting to sea for the first time and thereby bringing down the curtain on over a century of surface warship building at Barrow.

25 photos taken in spring 2006 of Irish Sea shipping at this north Lancashire port. It mainly handles ro-ro freight to Ireland, and freight and passengers to the Isle of Man. Founded by the Midland Railway in 1904, railway activity is now confined to two Pacer boat trains which connect with the Isle of Man sailing. There is a good general website at www.irishseashipping.com

11 photos of the Heysham - Warrenpoint ferry Riverdance after she had been driven ashore at Cleveleys on 1 February during a storm. Mercifully all 23 passengers and crew were rescued without loss of life.

12 photos of the ship being broken up on Blackpool beach in July 2008 after sustained bad weather had made salvage impossible. By October most of the wreck had been removed.

19 photos of ships in harbour on 4 August 2001. This was the late Queen Mother's 101st birthday, so ships in commission were dressed overall. Highlights are the prototype trimaran warship Triton, the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance, and HMS Fearless

36 photos taken on 5-6 March 2007 of Nelson's flagship at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar in which he decisively defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain.

Although great pains have been taken to present Victory as she was at Trafalgar, only about 20& of the ship is original. Official website = www.hms-victory.com

Seven photos taken on 6 March 2007 of Henry VIII's mighty warship, which foundered off Portsmouth in 1545 with great loss of life. Salved in 1982, Mary Rose is the subject of a meticulous and prolonged conservation process which still has a number of years to run. Website = www.maryrose.org

29 photos of the ever shrinking fleet, most taken on 5 March.

Photos of Portsmouth's landmark 170m high Spinnaker Tower, and from its glassed-in observation floors.

49 photos taken in September and October 2005 of frigates USS Constitution ('Old Ironsides', 1797) and USS Constellation (1854), New England ferry Nobska (1925), Fletcher class destroyer USS Cassin Young (DD793, 1943) and Tench class submarine USS Torsk (SS423, 1944).

21 photos of this Soviet diesel-electric hunter-killer submarine (SSK), now preserved alongside retired Cunarder Queen Mary.

Photographs of 4 ships preserved in New York Harbor: aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, and the South Street Seaport Museum's three sailing ships : Wavertree, Pioneer and Peking. Websites: www.intrepidmuseum.org, and www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org. For photos of the aircraft displayed in the Intrepid Museum, SCROLL DOWN to my Aviation-USS Intrepid collection.

34 pictures taken in September 2006, mainly of ships preserved in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park including Clyde-built steel sailing ship Balclutha (1886) and Tyne paddle tug Eppleton Hall (1914).