The Rainbow Warrior made headlines around the world when it was sunk by French intelligence operatives. But before that, its ...

There’s a trend for thematic snacks in theatre cafes – pizza for a Neapolitan revival, beignets for a play about New Orleans, soda bread at an Irish classic. The Hampstead Theatre has resisted a meal ...

"Dear Jeff, my grandparents on my mother's side, aunt and other extended members of the Hooper family, all lived in Milford Haven. In researching the ancestry of the Hooper side of my family, I have ...

Sam has been charting the relationship between Lloyd’s Register and Hull, looking in particular at their interactions with the Wilson Line, one of Hull’s major maritime firms and its work on ...

Hull-born Richard Bean’s latest play, the 1976-set Reykjavik, is a “spiritual cousin” of sorts to his 2003 work Under the Whaleback, which followed the deckhands on a fishing trawler. Having “failed ...

A penguin chick has been named after headscarf revolutionary Lillian Bilocca. Ms Bilocca, from Hull, spearheaded the Headscarf Revolutionaries, who campaigned for improved safety in the fishing ...

Hull-born, he explored below-decks trawler life in 2003’s Under the Whaleback, but here opens on company director Donald Claxton (John Hollingworth)), first of his family to go to university ...

A trawler has gone down off the coast of Iceland ... does know the gut-quaking shame of the ‘Widows’ Walk’, a Hull tradition in which a boat owner visits each widow in turn on foot to ...

Beneteau builds a diverse list of models, divided between the day boat, cruiser, express cruiser and trawler categories ... Basic maintenance, including washing and waxing the fiberglass hull, keeping ...

A fishing trawler has capsized off the Icelandic coast. Donald Claxton is in crisis mode, he is the owner of the fleet hunkered down in his Hull office, shielded by his desk, a three-piece suit ...

Lesley Bellew shares 15 recommendations for small ship cruising with limited passenger numbers, from Indonesia to the Caribbean, and from the Antarctic to Canada.

Welcome to Reykjavik. Or at least to Reykjavik, Richard Bean’s cracking new drama about the Hull fishing industry in 1976. It’s a play that nimbly juggles the absurd and the tragic as it reaches to ...