World of Warship

This three part documentary series charts the history of the warship from the dawn of the twentieth century to the present day and in doing so tells the story of the most iconic ships of all time, and looks at the engineering breakthroughs that allowed them to become genuine game-changers and play leading roles in the greatest naval battles of the past century.

Mars the Magnificent was a giant floating fortress that sank 1564 in "the first modern naval battle", pitting Sweden against Denmark and the Hanseatic city of Lubeck. How and why did the 'unsinkable' Swedish warship catch fire and explode during the Northern Seven Years' War in 1564? An expedition to the wreck site reveals all.

In the inter-war years Richard Perkins, a keen amateur photographer and avid collector, amassed one of the world s largest personal collections of warship negatives.