Maritime Matters

Martin Cox grew up in the major British port of Southampton, inspiring him to create the site. He went to art schools in Winchester and Devon, launching Maritime Matters in 1997 and later moving to Los Angeles to launch his career in photography in 2000.[6] Cox co-wrote the book Hollywood to Honolulu: The Story of the Los Angeles Steamship with maritime author and researcher Gordon Ghareeb which was published in 2009. Cox was given the C. Bradford Mitchell for services to maritime history in May 2013 by the Steamship Historical Society of America and his photographic series, "Stranded" was exhibited at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum from June 2012 to January 2013.

Peter Knego was born in Los Angeles to a fashion model and an actor, and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Theater Arts.[7] While still a school boy in early 1974, he began photographing every passenger ship that came to dock in Los Angeles, sparking interest in the passenger shipping industry. He traveled on many classic ships in the 1990s, including the Achille Lauro weeks before it sank in 1994.

Knego has, since 2003, annually visited scrapyards at Alang, India, to document ships, mostly classic liners, being scrapped.[8] His home near San Diego, California, is decorated with a large quantity of fittings rescued from the former Elder Dempster Lines flagship, the Aureol, when it was broken up at Alang.[7] Knego has also produced several films chronicling passenger ships of the world.[9]

Peter Newall, author of books about Union-Castle Line and Orient Line.