After more than 25 years in Boston, the Lannan Ship Model Gallery opened its doors in Norwell this week, starting the next chapter for this 50-year-old family business. When Larry Lannan was 22, he ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s been just about a year since the US Navy commissioned the newest of six ships named in honor of the City of Savannah, the USS Savannah LCS-28. The Littoral Combat Ship was ...

The latest addition to a growing and diverse collection of ship models from the 20th and 21st centuries on display at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center should be familiar to anyone ...

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 ...

A testament to the romance of the sea, the Houston Maritime Museum is tucked away in an old house near the Medical Center. The nonprofit museum at 2004 Dorrington houses more than 100 models of ships ...

When Katie McNally, from Ontario, N.Y., donated nine model boats to the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in the autumn of 2011, one was held back. It wasn't finished. It was the hull of the model of ...

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