Unit 6 - Maritime history.

In England no town is more than 170 kilometers from the sea. So it's no surprise that Britain has important history of ships and the sea.
The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time, but now it's smaller.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history.

Between 1830 and 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.

The most famous ship was the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1.500 people downed. It was 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.
Ships are very important for moving good, but the majority of people do travel around the world by plane.

So the sea stills plays a very important part in life in Britain.