What: I build wooden model ships. Who: Damian Valentine, 81, of Chandler, is a retired service manager and electronics business owner from Illinois. How the collection began: I started building them ...

In his warehouse in Philadelphia sits Jonah Eaton's 42ft (13m) wooden boat. Over the past eight years Eaton has devoted much of his life to building the vessel by hand, with scores of volunteers ...

Jayne Smith's grandson, Preston, is 5 years old and seeing the Great Lakes and lake freighters for the first time. He's from Mesa, Arizona, and there's not much water there. "With the big ships, his ...

Folded plate in envelope on inside of back cover. SHIP MODEL BOOK HOW TO BUILD AND RIG MODEL SHIPS WITH A SPECIAL SET OF FULLSIZED PATTERNS FOR THE FAMOUS SHIP BENJ F PACKARD BY GEORGE B DOUGLAS AND ...

When the late Charles Parsons took on the task of building a model ship, it was no small undertaking -- generally taking him between 18 months and four years to complete. With painstaking detail, the ...

Press photo Since Soviet times, the Polar Odyssey maritime club in Petrozavodsk has made exact replicas of 17th-19th century sailboats. In three decades this group of enthusiasts has constructed more ...

John McElwee of Syosset with his model of a 2,000 year-old fishing boat. (Photo by Chris Boyle) The Long Island Ship Model Society has been around since 1966 and works diligently to preserve an art ...

For Michael Stoddart, building a ship in a bottle all comes down to finding the right vessel. "My experience is that you need to have a bottle that inspires you," he said. "A nice, clean bottle which ...

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 ...