Nautical Gifts for the Home

A good nautical gift brings a bit of the coast indoors without turning the house into a theme park. These are the pieces we would give: useful things with a seaside story, ornaments with real character, and small keepsakes that fit in a card.

Nautical gifts for the home

The puffin and crab clock and the pasty thief clock are 30cm wall clocks with a sense of humour. The lighthouse doorstop is printed cotton and weighted to hold a door, and the nautical photo frame holds three 6 x 4 holiday photos. For a shelf, the harbourside cottages ornament, the large resin lobster and the nautical book ends each make a small seaside scene, and the 40cm metal spinusus shell is a centrepiece. The Ships Wheel Mirror is 42cm across, a blue and white ship's wheel with rope and anchor detail around a working mirror. For a small lighthouse gift, try the cocktail forks in their own lighthouse holder.

Nautical gifts for men (and anyone who sails)

For a desk or study, the brass ruler with code flags shows the International Code of Signals in colour, marked in inches and centimetres. The monkey fist keyring has a rope knot and brass shackle (also in tri-colour), and the anchor keyring hangs on blue rope. A pack of Heritage playing cards in a nautical design is a good holiday or boat gift.

Silver sea charms to wear

Our solid sterling silver charms clip onto a bracelet or chain: a life buoy, a starfish and a rhodium-plated ships wheel, an anchor and a conch shell, with a charm bracelet chain to start a collection. They make beach gifts and ocean gifts that last. For Cornish pewter jewellery made in Cornwall, see Cornish gifts.

Small seaside gifts

For stocking fillers and gift bags, try the puffin keyring, a wooden beach hut keyring, the seagull keyrings, the seagull with wire fish, a wood-effect resin seagull, the Relax hanging sign or a ceramic starfish. More ideas for every budget are on our coastal gifts page, and for anglers see fishing gifts.