In England no town is more than 170 kilometers 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. Now it's smaller, but many other ships are still used for importing and exporting goods and for taking people on business or holiday.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.
Between 1830-1930 more than nine 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. They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool or Southampton to New York in five or six days. The most famous ship was probably the Titanic.
One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods. Here at the S outhampton Container Terminal they unload more than one and a half million containers each year.
So the sea still plays a very important part in life in Britain.
The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time. Now it's smaller, but many other ships are still used for importing and exporting goods and for taking people on business or holiday.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.
Between 1830-1930 more than nine 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. They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool or Southampton to New York in five or six days. The most famous ship was probably the Titanic.
One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods. Here at the S outhampton Container Terminal they unload more than one and a half million containers each year.
So the sea still plays a very important part in life in Britain.
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