Sea views: Capturing British maritime life

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.

Overall winner, Laurence Hartwell's Landing Mackerel, captures a fisherman with his catch in Newlyn, Cornwall

John Alderson's Sunrise Through The Wave won the People category

Amanda Burgess's Fate of the Mersey Ferry won the Ships and Wrecks category

Laurence Hartwell's Keeping Things Running Safely was highly commended in the People category

Mark Dobson's Wild Seas, shot at Gwithian, Cornwall, won the Coastal Views category

Gary Richardson's Heading for Harbour was highly commended in the Ships and Wrecks category

Alan Humphries's Brighton Sussex Display won the Recreation category

Noel Bennett's Sunrise over The Cobb was highly commended in the Coastal Views category

Stanley Pearson's Jet Rides was highly commended in the Recreation category

All photographs copyright of the contributors, courtesy of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society and PA Media