Life at sea isn’t all about guns, missiles, fast-paced action, manoeuvres at close quarters. Sometimes it’s grimy, oily, dirty, backbreaking – and just as rewarding. It also largely unsung. Captains.

Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is now formally linked with the flagship of the UK’s Merchant Fleet, cruise liner Queen Mary 2. Beneath a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II – who ...

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