A feature of Maldives holidays are the unforgettable seaborne excursions.
Trade with her immediate neighbours is now insignificant, the total value of annual imports and exports being about £400,000; but seaborne commerce is in a very flourishing condition.
The lower or estuarine courses of some of the English rivers as the Thames, Tyne, Humber, Mersey and Bristol Avon, are among the most important waterways in the world, as giving access for seaborne traffic to great ports.
This was the only seaborne attack of this sort to be tried on Malta.
A central message of the gallery is that the Empire was primarily seaborne, despite the predominance of land-based images of the Empire today.