The wooden ship tradition did not die out at Hydra. The Hydriots and other Greek islanders continued to hew large and small ...

His model of the San Felipe, a Spanish galleon launched in 1690, features brass cannons and lanterns. "The back part I had to carve out of wood," Zimmerman says. "I'm not a woodcarver, but it came ...

Lou Husser, a member of the Washington Ship Model Society, restored the model he is holding, which was built by a Lorton prison inmate about a half-century ago. The prison closed in 2001. (John ...