But once injection molded plastics caught on, wood and tissue model kits largely went the way of the dodo. [Marius Taciuc] wanted to share that classic model building experience with his son ...

and a one-fifth-scale model has been built at the Mokpo Center to aid in the analysis of the ship's structure. Experts dated the shipwreck to 1323 using an associated wooden cargo tag and coins ...

A traditional wooden sailing ship is being built using old photographs of a 19th Century vessel. The 68ft (21m) pilot cutter is being created by a team of shipwrights in Truro, Cornwall ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

It was intended for protection against pirates. When the trigger mechanism is tripped by the hull of a ship a counterweight is released downward and a claw extends upward piercing or tearing the keel ...

If accurate, these dimensions would signal the biggest wooden ships ever built. Only the mightiest wooden warships of the Victorian age approached these lengths, and several of these vessels ...

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But at one Nova Scotia beach an hour from Halifax, there are three wooden sailing ships -- each more than a century old and measuring more than 20 feet high -- completely buried in the sand.

Model ships built by two young Aberdeenshire brothers ... The replicas - made from elm wood and fitted with tracking and monitoring devices - will follow the current around the coastline of ...

The Wood-Pro AVP is a unique one-hopper chipper + shredder. It uniformly reduces organic debris without sizing rods or screens. The AVP handles everything from leaves and weeds to 6" diameter ...

The incident, which police described as a "tragic accident," occurred after the wooden ship encountered unexpectedly severe weather conditions. The vessel, named Naddodd, was a 33-foot double ...