Edgewood's ship is expected to be about 3 feet by 4 feet and will be displayed near the mailroom. Edgewood resident Russ Hannu holds up a piece of wood to size the next cut while fellow resident Gary ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Twenty years ago, William “Bill” Gaddes received a model ship building kit as a gesture of thanks ...

Ships come in many shapes and sizes—including ones that fit in bottles. No one knows this better than Jim Goodwin, a retired geologist who for 25 years has been perfecting the maritime tradition of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen years ago, members of the Tulsa Ship Modelers Society completed a 1/48 scale model of the USS Tulsa, a Navy gunboat that was in service during the years between the world wars. On Wednesday, ...

In a remote stretch of Costa Rica, where towering trees give way to spindly mangroves, mornings start with a roar. Monkeys high in the canopy howl to greet the sunrise. Hammers bang and tools scrape ...