This book tells the story of the North Sea passenger lines over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years. Each chapter has a national or even regional perspective but they all link together and shows just how the North Sea connects rather than divides te people who live around it. The book is a result of the cooperation between the maritime museums in Aberdeen, Amsterdam Bremerhaven, Dunkirk, Esbjerg, Gothenburg, Hull, Rotterdam, Stavanger and Thorshavn.