Worlds Greatest Ships

This is the story of how a humble coal ship became one of Britains greatest ships Capable of battling stormy seas the ship carried the historic missions of Captain James Cook to explore the South Pacific In the captains cabin Rob explains that the King himself George III commandednbspCook to find a mysterious continent rumored to lie within the vast Pacific OceannbspTo do this Cook would have to

The most famous ship in the world the Titanic was a marvel of engineering based on revolutionary new capabilities It bristled with the latest technology and was said to be unsinkable And yet her maiden voyage becomes the most famous maritime disaster in history In the Belfast shipyard where the Titanic was built Rob boards the last piece of living history that links us to the legend ndash her

The Mayflower a humble British merchant ship played a crucial role in one of historys most significant voyages Hired by a group of religious dissidents seeking freedom in the New World it braved fierce storms mutiny deprivation and death Against all odds the Mayflowers crew and the Pilgrims established a colony that would later become the United States of America In Mystic Connecticut Rob

Rob Bell boards the ship that kickstarted the age of polar exploration the Royal Research Ship Discovery The worlds first purposebuilt scientific vessel her bold journey to the most inhospitable continent on the planet Antarctica propelled Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton into the ranks of the worlds most famous explorers With access to the diaries of Discoverys backers Rob tells the

This famous ocean liner serves as a staggering monument to British marine engineering Scaling the funnel and delving deep into the engine room Rob finds out how the largest ship of her day could also become the fastest achieving speeds that few large ships can match 80 years later On the passenger decks Rob savors the Art Deco craftsmanship that made the Queen Mary the much loved ldquofloating

The Ark Royal was World War IIs mostnbspfamousnbspaircraft carrier Her survival in the face of Nazi Luftwaffe bombing raids and Uboat attacks was a testament to her ingenious design and courageous crew Throughout the war Ark Royal huntednbspdown some of the Nazis most feared warships Her mere presence was enough to force the captainnbspof one of the Nazis proudest warships to scuttle her off the