Shipping in Britain

In England no town is more than 170 kimetres from the sea.So it's no surprise that Britain has a very important history of ships anfd the sea.The British biggest navy in the world at one time. In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history .It's got several ships in the docks outside.Inside it shows waht it was like to be on some of the ships.Ships like this one-the Cutty Sark Greenwich in London-brought tea fro India to Britain.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine milion people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.The most famous ship was probably the Titanic.It sank in 1912 and over 1,500 people drowned.It was the worst disaster in maritime history. You probably know about it from one of the most expensive films ever made-TITANIC!

One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard.It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York.It still takes five or six days but some people prefer that to five or six hours in a aeroplane.
The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but dhips are still very important for moving goods.
So the sea still plays a very important part life in Britain.