Nautical Channel Nautical Channel Launched on 5 December 2011, Nautical Channel is the only international 24/7 nautical sports and lifestyle channel in the world. The channel caters to a local and worldwide audience and was founded by Andrew Miller and Laurence Fox Hopper. Nautical Channel is available to over 20 million subscribers in 44 countries in English, French and German. It is on over one hundred international pay TV, satellite, subscriber IpTV, mobile phone, Digital Terrestrial, MMDS and cable TV platforms. Nautical Channel has assembled the largest ever group of international nautical TV producers in order to provide viewers with the best
Nautical fiction importance of naval power in maintaining Britains' vast worldwide empire led to numerous novels with nautical themes. Some of these just touch on the sea, as with "Sylvia's Lovers" (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell, where the nautical world is a foil to the social life ashore. However, British novelists increasingly focused on the sea in the 19th century, particular when they focus on the upper classes. In such works sea voyages became a place for strong social commentary, as, for example Trollope's "John Caldigate" (1877), in which Trollope depicts a character travelling to Australia to make his fortune, and Wilkie Collins's