Hoga was a United States Navy Woban-class district harbor tug named after the Sioux Indian word for "fish." After World War II, the tug was known as Port of Oakland and then City of Oakland when she was a fireboat in that city. Authorized...

Warrior was designed and built in response to an aggressive French shipbuilding programme which saw the introduction of the first iron-clad warship La Gloire designed by the brilliant naval architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lome. Determined to see off this challenge to the...

A VERY PECULIAR HISTORY: PROVIDENCE AND MOBY DICK Discover whaling ship Providence, wooden model of this boat designed for whaling. How could six men resist the fury of the sea by facing a large whale in a small rowboat? Moby Dick narrates the voyage...

Among all those recorded through naval history, that of a the Bounty is certainly the most notable example of rebellion which involved theentire crew of a warship on the high seas. The commander of the ship and of the expedition was William Bligh. In...

This original design can be seen in many ports along the French Channel. The boats are socalled stern trawlers, in which the net is pulled in using a tricing line in the rear of the boat. The hull is of steel; and the length...

Nordlandsbaaden (Nordlandsbaden) is a typical fishing boat built in Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries. At first glance, it does not deny its origins in Viking ships. Like them, he had excellent nautical qualities and was able to safely take the crew to...

Despite its modest size and apparance, the African Queen is one of the vessels which has become most vividly engraved on the minds of many people throughout the world. The African Queen achived its frame as one of the main characters in a film of...

A model of a typical American motor boat, used for tuna fishing in Florida in particular. A motor boat model with plastic hull, especially designed for model builders interested in an RC model Length 54.00 Height 30.00 Beam 16.00 For required Paints and Instructions...

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world’s oldest floating commissioned naval vessel.[Note 1] Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of...

This Viking ship, dating from about 1000 A.D. was found in 1957 in the bay at Roskilde in Denmark. The wreck was salvaged in 1962, and after a thorough preservation it was possible to carry out a reconstruction of the vessel. Today the ship...

Built at the Coast Guard shipyard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, USA. After minor adjustments the vessel is now doing duty in British coastal waters for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. This former 44-foot Coast Guard is a very seaworthy lifeboat, designed to carry out...

Lilla Dan was built in 1951 at the well-known shipyard in Svendborg, Denmark, by J. Ring Andersen, and constructed mainly of oak and beach. Lilla Dan is owned by the shipping company Lauritzen in Copenhagen and does duty today both as a training ship...

HISTORY OF THE SANTA MARIA NAO: WRONGLY CALLED CARAVEL Yes, it is possibly the most important ship in history because it was the one where Christopher Columbus was when he discovered America at the end of the fifteenth century, specifically, in 1492. Santa Maria...

BIL 01-00-0720 Billing Boats 1/25 Osberg Special (Experienced) The Oseberg was found in Norway at Oseberg in Vestfold in 1903, resting on a bed of blue clay and covered with turf and stones. The Oseberg was built in the last half of the 800's...

HISTORY OF BON RETOUR: FRENCH FISHING BOAT MODEL Discover Bon Retour wooden model, scallop fishing boat of the coast of the French Brittany used for this activity until 1980. Built in 1952 at the Tertu du Fret shipyards, it was fishing for thirty-seven years....

Smit Rotterdam was built in 1975 for Smit International BV in Holland, and was at the time of its completion the largest and most powerful tugboat in the world - with a tonnage of 2,273 tons, a length of 75 m, a 22,000 HP...

The Zwarte Zee was built in 1963 at J. & K. Smit's Scheepswerven N.V. in Kinderdijk, Holland. Length 77.50 m, breadth 12.35 m, draught 6.90 m and gross tonnage 1,539 tons. Driven by two Smit-M.A.N. turbo diesel engines yielding 9,000 HP. These machines drive...

HISTORY OF LA PINTA: MODEL OF THE CARAVEL Discover La Pinta, a wooden model, the fastest of the three caravels used by Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World in 1492. Built in the shipyards of Palos de la Frontera a...

This simple sailboat kit is designed so that even younger children can enjoy the creative satisfaction of building a model boat. When we say fun for the entire family, we mean everyone. This simple sailboat kit is designed so that even younger children can...

The one and only PT-109 has been a standard of the Dumas line for well over 40 years.  Over those years there have been many improvements on the original model and there has even been revisions on the revisions till we have gotten to where we...