We all love the LEGO midi scale ships; here are some great ways to expand your collection by making the sets into 2-in-1 ...
How do professional mariners learn to handle huge, oceangoing ships? For some, the educational voyage goes through a small ...
TACOMA — The old board game Battleship is taken to a new level when the captains of the Washington Cascade Column take to the water, as they did Monday in Tacoma. “All of us were guys who threw rocks ...
She was the fastest vessel in the world's oceans and it seems the RMS Mauretania is still making waves - as a 12ft long model of the ship is set to sell for £50,000. The beautifully-crafted 1:64 scale ...
Not What You Think Official on MSN

How Scale Model Ships Predict Real Ocean Giants

Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their ...
Allen Daffern works on a model of the HMS Leopard in his home on Thursday, April 11. Daffern estimated that if he worked every day for eight hours, it would take him between seven and nine months to ...
Testing Ships in a Miniature OceanThe US Navy maintains an indoor ocean capable of simulating some of the world’s worst weather conditions, even with waves only four feet tall. These tests rely on ...
A scale model of an 18th-century ship has sailed off with some unexpected booty following an auction in Vancouver. Seventy-two-year-old Victor Jankovic hoped his 2.4-metre long, nearly two-metre tall ...
A Jamestown man plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking in November with a mini documentary on his YouTube channel using his cardboard models of the Great Lakes ...
MASK can mimic virtually any sea condition around the world’s oceans. “We can test small-scale models of Navy ships in every single environment that it’s going to encounter as a full-scale ship,” ...
Health problems kept 69-year-old Thiren Smallman out of the navy, but he has found a different outlet for his passion for the sea. Smallman grew up on a farm in western P.E.I., and since he was young ...