Trevor Ware has had a lifelong interest in the sea and the Royal Navy. His entire working life was spent in the Food Industry including several large businesses involved with seafoods. Entering retirement, he took a course at Greenwich Maritime Institute leading to an MA in Maritime History. This was followed by a research Degree at Sussex University with a dissertation entitled ‘The Meaning of Ice. Scientific scrutiny and the visual record obtained from British Polar Expeditions between 1772 and 1854.’ He has owned various small boats and sailed in many places including the coast of Norway, the Baltic, Port Jackson Australia, and along the Brittany coast. He lives in West Dorset.