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 ...

Thousands of people drive along Route 1 in Searsport every year. You've probably noticed the big red and white striped "lighthouse" with attached gift shop that says Model Ships out front. But there's ...

A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy's small wood sander. Ralahy, eyes ...

The primary work of an experimental model basin is the estimation, with reasonable accuracy, of the resistance and horse-power of full-sized ships from experiments with small and inexpensive models.