Old boat model from NSW Central Coast holds the secret to making ships in the days before blueprints
As Peter Rea holds a battered wooden ship model in his hands, he marvels at the secrets it holds. The model was used to build a 60-foot-long ship, called Mystery, in Erina Creek on the New South Wales ...
“It was unforgettable,” describes Queenthunk Amalanathan F (Amal). He is talking about the miniature model of INS Vikramaditya, the flagship of the Indian Navy, which he built from scratch for the ...
A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy's small wood sander. Ralahy, eyes ...
At 88, one Falmouth man has a passion for restoring and creating tiny boats. How he helps keep the history of Woods Hole’s ...
On display were side-oared Ottoman galleys that once dominated the Mediterranean, small merchant boats common to local waters, and the passenger ferries that became icons of 20th-century Istanbul.
Left alone for years at the beginning of the 19th Century, French soldiers taken captive during the Napoleonic Wars found an unusually hobby — fashioning ornate replicas of British ships, out of beef ...
Buyer who acquired collection of 150 model ships astonished to sell almost all of them within a year
When Kevin Graham replied to a collector's ad selling a "few" model ships, he stumbled upon a treasure trove. "We negotiated a price over the phone and I went there and had a look, and he had 150 of ...
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The last voyage of Pakistan's wooden boats
Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory?Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns such ...
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