Brian, a long-serving former Cruise Director on the Queen Mary 2 will give a light-hearted talk about running away to sea and ending up working on one of the world’s most famous liners

Sea Shanties have become an important part of maritime heritage. This talk traces their origins, the way they were preserved and collected, often being given new meanings by succeeding generations

This talk will recount the career of the MV Cap San Diego as a cargo-passenger liner between Europe and the South Atlantic from 1962 to 1986. The essential focus will be on the ship’s design and facilities but her current status as a fully functioning museum ship in the port of Hamburg will also be explored.

En-route from Germany to the USA, the Flying Enterprise’s dramatic plight and the bravery of her Master Captain Carlsen and the First Mate of the rescue tug Turmoil, Kenneth Dancy, gripped the British nation which was unaware of the top-secret cargo the vessel was carrying

The SS Great Britain was conceived and born in Bristol but lived her life operating out of Liverpool for thirty years. This talk is about her owners’ Liverpool business and their liner service to Australia

After WW2, with an increasing threat from the USSR, the UK implemented a major increase in the RN’s ability to deal with the threat of mine-laying in home waters. The inshore threat was countered by building 243 Inshore Minesweepers that proved so useful that their roles developed well beyond that envisaged with some serving the nation for over four decades’