This episode of the series features the schooner Pickle which was at the battle of Trafalgar and brought back the news of the victory and the death of Admiral ...
read also "Pilot Cutters Under Sail" (Tom Cunliffe, Seaforth Publishing 2013)
A 6 part series for the BBC about the history of Britain as a Maritime Nation.
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A Good Night's Sleep Guy visits an Industrial Revolution cotton mill to weave his own sheets on 19th-century looms, then builds his own mattress at the ...
The Bronze Age was the time when the British landscape became civilised, with fields, farms and the first roads, but little evidence survives of what life was like ...
A Cup of Tea {With Subtitles} Guy Martin starts a six-week mission to renovate a neglected narrowboat, named Reckless, with inventions from the Industrial ...
Make a Boat a Home Guy and his best mate Mave decide to give their historic narrowboat a makeover. They learn about the most influential British interior ...
Hilarious challenge from the Top Gear boys as they attempt to cross the Channel to France in their brilliant but useless home-made amphibious cars. Clip taken ...
This is part of episode 4 featuring Guy visiting William Yates established in 1750 (now part of Chimo Holdings - www.chimoholdings.co.uk) to learn how to make ...
The Little Ships of England - the traditional craft of wooden boatbuilding, and the important roles those little ships play. They are made of British timber; oak, ash ...
A Nice Hot Shower Guy decides to make a steam engine power the shower on board his aptly-named narrowboat, Reckless. He also visits the factory of famous ...
Beans on Toast Motorcycle racer and engineering enthusiast Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own traditional bread, and ...
One of a pair of new aircraft carriers that are being assembled in Rosyth, near Edinburgh, is just one year from being completed. The Queen Elizabeth will be the ...
Fourteen years to design and build and costing around a billion pounds, nuclear submarine the Astute is one of the most technologically advanced and ...
The Liberty ship was a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, the design was adapted by the U.S. for its ...
The vessels will include a modified flight deck capable of operating the latest Merlin helicopters, larger stores and more accommodation for embarked troops.
Guy Martin is a British motorcycle racer and truck mechanic. Primarily a man of the road, he's one of the World's most talented riders and a constant favourite at ...
When James Brindley built the first British canal in the early 1760s, few people could have imagined the impact it would have on the nation. There was plenty of ...
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A Lifetime's Achievement Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain Episode 12 of 12 Fred Dibnah completes his monumental journey around the country on his traction ...
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A floating artificial island built in Mexico by British artist Richart "Rishi" Sowa. He's first Island was destroyed by a hurricane in 2005; a replacement, Joyxee ...