Unit 6: Maritime history.

In England no town is more than 170 kilometres from the sea, Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.
The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time. But now it's smaller. In Liverpool there is a museum of maritime history. It's got several ships in the docks outside.

Between 1830-1930 more than million people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia. In the early twentieth century there were large numbers of very elegant passenger ships. The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1500 drowned. It was the worst disaster in maritime history.

The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods. So the sea still plays a very important part in life in Britain.