Mersey Shipping: The Twilight Years

by Ian Collard

This is a book about life in a great maritime port of the 1960s. The photographs from the period show a busy, vibrant scene of commercial and industrial activity.However, this was a point when shipping was about to change drastically, as the emphasis switched to the shipping of goods and general cargoes in containers. The large shipping lines restructured into new container consortiums and the big fleets of conventional ships vanished almost overnight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752417320
• ISBN13: 9780752417325
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"