Sealink and Beyond The author has had access

The author has had access to the officers and crews of both ships to give the reader an insight into their day-to-day operations with P&O Cruises

Published 31st March 2026

Sixty years on

Home to the World’s Largest Working Waterwheel

fast and efficient paddle steamers of steel construction

Sealink and Beyond The author has had accessSealink was synonymous with ferry travel around the British Isles. Sealink & Beyond reviews this famous business from 1969, through privatisation and hostile takeover, until 1995 when the name was quietly dropped. Providing a full operational history, the book places Sealink in the context of an era of rapid change: from the after effects of Beeching to the Irish troubles, the Falklands War and Thatcherite privatisation, the Sealink story was heavily