Model Ship Building History
Here is a fun video of just some of the model ships the you will find on this website. One single click to start the video and one click to stop. If you would enjoy the full page view on the video is playing double click on the video and it will open the full page. If you like the tall ships don't forget to stop by and watch all the real Tall Ships in Review and full sail as it is a sight to behold.
Model Ship Building or model ships are scale representations of real ships. They can vary in size from 1/6000 scale miniatures to large vessels capable of carrying people.
Model Ship Building is a craft as old as shipbuilding itself, going back as far as ancient times when water transport was first developed.
It was the Ancient Egyptians were first to carve detailed ship models that survived until today.
The Egyptian funeral practice was to include highly accurate and detailed, painted, sycamore wood models of a ship and crew.
The reason was intended to transport the soul of the deceased to the afterlife.
Some of these model ships, which in some cases may be almost 5000 years old. They are truly remarkable by their state of preservation. Since the models usually show the crew in their respective stations they have been useful in understanding the actual duties of the crew members.
Here is what one happy owner had to say: "The Best Viking Ship Souvenir You'll Find"
I looked around a lot of souvenir shops in Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Roskilde and other destinations in the three Scandanavian countries who each claim they are the main viking heritage town/country. This was the viking ship I bought out of all the options available. It is a bit more expensive than a lot of competitor items but it is one of the few (only one or two others) that come with oars. Granted when the sail is full of wind like with this ship, the vikings wouldn't have bothered wasting their own (or slaves if they had them) energy putting the oars out a rowing but it is nice to have oars.(J. Simkin)
What uniforms they wore, and how they controlled their ships. You can find extensive collections of these model ships in the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a number of other museums worldwide.
