From the Trenwiths of Scilly - a father-son human foghorn duo - to a pan-European foghorn concerto, via the Boddam Coo, we say hats off to the foghorn.

A mysterious Dublin door leads nowhere but to the strange story of a ship given up for lost.

Last seen three years earlier being herded in chains onto a convict ship to Australia facing a 14 year sentence, the last place Charlie Dolphus was supposed to be in November 1839 was a Manchester boarding house. When put before the beak he told quite a story.  

At the end of a long, hot summer class war came to a shingle beach in East Sussex. Its weapon of choice: the mackintosh. 

A lonely American seaman drops a message in a bottle into the Atlantic. Hundreds of miles away an Irish teen is driving her cows to pasture near the shore when she spots something among the seaweed...

In the summer of 1808 a clergyman spotted something strange in the sea as he shuttled between his Hebridean island parishes. A few weeks later something very odd washed up on an Orkney beach. 

You'd think being hanged for robbery and murder would be the end of it. Not for Ambrose Gwinnett, it wasn't.

It's New Year's Eve 1931 and the crew of the Flamborough lifeboat is called out just before midnight. 

Upside down ships and Folkestone door numbers: a brief selection of some notable mirages. 

In 1938 keeper Jack Cross sailed out to the Wyre lighthouse off the coast of Fleetwood in Lancashire for his 11th successive lighthouse Christmas.