Ghosts of Britain's Ports, Docks and Harbours
Revellers are heard in a vanished Portsmouth tavern. A lost training ship is said to return under full sail. At a lighthouse above the Dee estuary, visitors speak of an old-fashioned keeper called Raymond.
Britain's waterfronts are working borders between land and sea, shaped by departure, danger, trade and return. Along their quays and harbour walls, sailors, dock workers and coastal communities have preserved stories as changeable - and persistent - as the tide.
Ghosts of Britain's Ports, Docks and Harbours visits thirty real maritime locations and follows their recorded reports and traditions, from naval Portsmouth and Liverpool's buried docks to Cornish coves, Welsh lights and the Norfolk Broads.
Discover the phantom HMS Eurydice near Spithead Trace the dated sightings behind Cornwall's modern Morgowr legend Hear the crutch-tapping sailor at Chatham's naval barracks Board the story of the ghost wherry Mayfly.
For readers of maritime history, coastal folklore, phantom ships and haunted Britain, this collection identifies what is documented, what was reported and what belongs to legend - without turning any of them into supernatural proof.
The harbour lights are fading. Some vessels have not finished coming home.
