Steve New began working for Elder Dempsters in 1962 as an Indentured Deck Officer Apprentice. In his interview, Steve talks about those early days in the engine room, the dangers of cleaning wheelhouse windows and about why Steve joined the Merchant Navy.
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Ancestral faces Canary Islands
The Centre for the Port and Maritime History focuses on port cities and examines their relationship to maritime ventures and enterprise. Research examines: urban history, British merchant marine advertising, Liverpool and the British Empire in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
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LJMU aims to achieve net carbon zero by 2035 through leadership, teaching, research and community engagement, as outlined in our Climate Action Plan.
It is essential to decarbonise transport and logistics, one of the largest sources of greenhouse-gases emission, to save the planet. The big question to researchers, and indeed to humanity, is how to decarbonise transport and logistics effectively.
Department of Maritime and Mechanical Engineering
Find out more about the speakers at the Healthy Muscle Aging Conference.
Today we find ourselves in uncharted territory; disorientating and unfamiliar waters leaving many of us dealing with a new routine, on the hunt for novel solutions and new ways of working. Read more...