UNIT 6: MARITIME HISTORY

Summary of Maritime history

In this unit I learned many things about the maritime history of Engalnd, for example these:

In England no town is more than 170 km from the sea. So it's no surprise that 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 is smaller than other ships and it's using to taking people on business or holiday. In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's a got several ships in the docks outside. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than 9.000.000 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. They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool or Southampton to New York in five or six days. The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1.500 people drowned.