1815-1914 – Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

Skipjack

Skipjack

The Finished Model Build Log Blue, italic, text indicates where I deviated from the kit instructions The Kit The Keel Bulkheads Mark each one LIGHTLY in pencil so it is easy to place them.Mark lower than I did so you do not have to sand off the writing. Ready for […]

Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe

Harvey

Albatros

Arabia Steamboat Museum, The

Arabia was a riverboat sunk by a submerged tree snag just outside of Kansas City. The 150 passengers Made it off the boat safely, but 200 tons of cargo were lost. These artifacts are now on display.

Flying Cloud

Flying Cloud, the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay, set the world’s sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco. The trip took 89 days and 8 hours. a record that held for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.

USS Olympia, USS (C-6)

This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898.

Natchez (1869)

Race from New Orleans to St. Louis against another Mississippi paddle steamer, the Robert E. Lee, was immortalized in a lithograph by Currier and Ives.

Mt. Washington

A sidewheeler that worked lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire where the modeler used to live.