For 800 years the city of Portsmouth built the ships of the English (and later, British) fleets. Today it is the home to, among other things, the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Ships representing ...

England’s Royal Navy has a long tradition and an even longer memory. Long ago sea battles fought and the men who led them are all a part of English folklore. When I used to visit my grandfather ...

It's odd, seeing the masts in the distance. Three of them, their rigging just visible, extend above the surrounding buildings. Hartlepool, in the northeast of England, might be a port town, but the ...