Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries: An Illustrated History Available to Purchase

If you travel along the North Wales coast by train, as I have recently done, you can see, at the small port of Mostyn, a beached and derelict ship. She is, or was, the Duke of Lancaster, the last survivor in the British Isles of the ships described in this book. They arose, as the author explains, from the relationship between the geographical position of these islands and the development of steam propulsion in ships. As soon as it became possible, this gave rise to fast passenger services across the English and Irish Channels and the North Sea; a...