This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Emp

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

In 'From Tree To Sea', Ted Frost, who was apprenticed as a shipwright in 1916, tells in detail with the aid of his own drawings how a wooden steam fishing boat