This feature provides a snapshot of the Shields/Tyne ferry scene over the last 60 years or so.

Here is the second part of our feature on Stena Line.

Here's how MP, Samuel Plimsoll set about a legal requirement for ships to be provided with a loadline which was included in the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894

The Nankin, our feature about this Chinese Incident.

Part One of our special feature on Stena Line.

One hundred years ago on 19th February 1921, Egon Oldendorff (1900-1984) was made a partner in the shipping company of Lilienfeld & Holmuth in Hamburg two days after his 21st birthday....