Welcome to maritime.elettra.co.uk. This website contains five maritime-themed websites, each about an aspect of our maritime history:

• The story of the Merchant Navy during the Second World War as told by the story of Geoffrey Purslow and the sinking of the Laconia
• A history and virtual tour of the Edinburgh-class light cruiser HMS Belfast retired and moored in London by Tower Bridge
• A history of Guglielmo Marconi and his steam yacht, Il Panfilo Elettra
• An illustrated history of the legendary transatlantic Cunard ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary
• The story of the famous liner the Titanic as told through some of the many memorials to her loss  in Titanic Remembered

Richard Coltman, November 2008