The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society charity has announced the winners of its seventh annual photography competition.
The competition encourages amateur and professional photographers to enter pictures that capture the essence of Britain’s long maritime heritage, with its merchant ships, fishermen, coasts, ports and harbours.
Here is a selection of the winning entries.
Image copyrightLaurence HartwellImage caption Overall winner, Laurence Hartwell’s Landing Mackerel, captures a fisherman with his catch in Newlyn, Cornwall Image copyrightJohn AldersonImage caption John Alderson’s Sunrise Through The Wave won the People category Image copyrightAmanda BurgessImage caption Amanda Burgess’s Fate of the Mersey Ferry won the Ships and Wrecks category Image copyrightLaurence HartwellImage caption Laurence Hartwell’s Keeping Things Running Safely was highly commended in the People category Image copyrightMark DobsonImage caption Mark Dobson’s Wild Seas, shot at Gwithian, Cornwall, won the Coastal Views category Image copyrightGary RichardsonImage caption Gary Richardson’s Heading for Harbour was highly commended in the Ships and Wrecks category Image copyrightAlan HumphriesImage caption Alan Humphries’s Brighton Sussex Display won the Recreation category Image copyrightNoel BennettImage caption Noel Bennett’s Sunrise over The Cobb was highly commended in the Coastal Views category Image copyrightStanley PearsonImage caption Stanley Pearson’s Jet Rides was highly commended in the Recreation category
Image copyright Laurence Hartwell 
Image copyright John Alderson 
Image copyright Amanda Burgess 
Image copyright Laurence Hartwell 
Image copyright Mark Dobson 
Image copyright Gary Richardson 
Image copyright Alan Humphries 
Image copyright Noel Bennett 
Image copyright Stanley Pearson 
