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The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a private non-profit museum, located in Sadorus, Illinois. It features ship models from around the world and throughout history. [1] Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the RMS Queen Mary made entirely out of one million toothpicks. The collection includes ship models from the movies ...
Ough was born in Leytonstone, London.His father, Arthur Ough (1863–1946), was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer. [1] At the age of two Ough accompanied his parents to Hong Kong, [2] where his father was employed as an architect for the University of Hong Kong and the Kowloon-Canton Railway, remaining there for four years. [3]
Brig Pilgrim off Santa Barbara in 1996. Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834–1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides. Pilgrim caught fire and sank at sea in 1856.
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, celebrated for transporting the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. [3] The reproduction was built in Devon, England during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton and Plimoth Patuxet (at the time known as Plimoth Plantation), a living history museum.
Black-and-white photographs and engravings, including of ship models for older types, round out the description. Since 1998, each volume has carried a large-scale plan on the reverse of the fold-off dust jacket. According to its producers, the series ‘aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published.
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
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Karl Heinz Marquardt was born on 9 November 1927 in Hamburg, Germany.He inherited a passion for all things nautical from his father, a mariner, war artist, model-maker and marine artist, who had exhibited in museums across Germany.