Those interested in shipping, particularly in Southampton may find this site useful, although mainly modern ships there are some interesting facts about the war years, the docks, flying boats, people at sea and much more. http://www.plimsoll.org/StartHere/default.asp Another informative site ref the Titanic is the biographies of the ships Engineers http://www.stfaiths100.freeserve.co.uk/html_files/titengdr.htm Solent Shipping is full of facts and figures about ships and their cargoes etc, again modern but interesting on what passed through the Solent http://tinyurl.com/6673z RED DUSTER The Union Castle line and more, facts and figures about the ships http://www.red-duster.co.uk/UNION12.htm Chris and Caroline --- All of our outgoing mail is checked and certified Virus Free by regularl updates Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 22/07/2004