BATTLE CREEK --Between the smoke rising out of smokestacks and lines of rivets in the hulls, Jack East's model boats are impressive to see. But East isn't one to explain everything. "That is my secret ...

Thomas Elwood Tragle, 67, a renowned builder of ship models whose replica of the USS Monitor is on display at the U.S. Navy Museum in Norfolk, died Monday, Aug. 7, in Hampton. Mr. Tragle began model ...

Boxborough's Ross Hunter made his first model ship back in 1958 at age 10. He was living in Holland at the time and one day his father, a model ship builder himself, took Hunter and his brother to a ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — Erich Bergh has been working on a model replica of the Riverboat Nenana since fall 1991. He is almost done. The lifelong Fairbanksan, 57, said he wasn’t even keen on sternwheelers when he ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Creating models of tall-masted clipper ships and large-scale battleships is fine for some hobbyists, but Bernard "Scotty" Scott prefers to keep his ship building close to his heart. He ...

Ronald M. Roberti, a commercial airline pilot whose fascination with the mechanical world began with building and flying model airplanes as a child and ended in retirement with construction of ...

Firelands Historical Society Museum of Norwalk, in Huron County, has announced the acquisition of three model ships built by world renowned model ship builder Robert Bruckshaw, who was from Norwalk.

NEW BEDFORD -- Almost every student who has gone through the city's school system knows about Captain Ahab and the famed great white whale, Moby Dick. And when they remember the book, they also ...

Forget for a moment about iPods, Wiis and Harry Potter, and consider how sailors once devoted countless hours to putting a ship in a bottle. Yep, building a whole miniature clipper ship inside a ...

NORTH PORT -- If you're a fan of boating, you might want to set your sails to catch a windfall from Earl Gardner. The Harbor Cove resident has spent the better part of the last seven years lovingly ...