The USS Niagara sat at rest Wednesday, its rigging set to sail to starboard and its long guns, cannons and carronades in position for battle. Or rather, they would have been had the brig been about 64 ...
DECATUR - Walk down the stairs in the Adam Troxell Sr. home in Decatur and cast an eye upon a massive model ship. Extending over each end of a 7-foot pool table, the World War II battleship USS New ...
STURGIS | During World War II, the battleship USS South Dakota sailed hundreds of thousands of miles, seeing combat in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In November, a five-foot scale model of the ...
For 32 years, a 10-foot model of the battleship USS Louisiana has been taking shape — slowly, painstakingly — in Dr. Ron Kennedy's Baton Rouge workshop. Now, in time to celebrate 100 years since World ...
Not the typical model battleship, the Raleigh County Veterans Museum dedicated its 20-foot, 1,000-pound model of the USS West Virginia Saturday. The creation is said to be the largest model of an ...
Raymond Daughtry Jr. served in the Korean War. A history buff, he has made model battleships including one of the U.S.S. Arizona, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor. By James Barron Good morning. It’s ...
GREENFIELD — Drop in to the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road, from 1 to 5 p.m. today to see a display of models of the USS Indiana, USS Indianapolis, and USS Indiana (BB58), World ...
HAMBURG, GERMANY — For Peter Tamm, the passion that launched a thousand ships -- and Hamburg’s newest museum along the port city’s old docks -- began with a gift from his mother in 1934. “A 500-gross ...