In England no town is more than 170kilometres from the sea. So it's no surprise that Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's got several ships in the docks outside. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.
In the early twentieth century there were large numbers of very elegant passenger ships. They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool of Southampton to New York in five or six days.
The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over1,500 people drowned. It was the worst disaster in maritime history. You probably know about it from one of the most expensive films ever made - Titanic!
The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods.
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