Model Ship Building History

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. 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.

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