Hartford artist Peter Sparre has felt the “vibrations of a bygone world” since his first trip on a transatlantic liner in 1946. Sparre, then 4, was headed to Europe with his family on the ...
The original specs for the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Mackinaw and hundreds of other historic ship drawings will be preserved by the University of Wisconsin-Superior thanks to a $50,000 federal grant. “We ...
The pictures were discovered in a suitcase which was donated to Trinity House in Leith Hundreds of old drawings of ships which visited Scotland in the inter-war years are going on display at an ...
Fifteenth-century Christian pilgrims left an 'intriguing' drawing on a port in Gaza as they traveled to other sites throughout Israel, archaeologists have revealed. The sketches - thought to be about ...
Ship drawings discovered in the Rahat church excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA) One of the ship illustrations is a simple line drawing, with a slightly pointed bow and discernable oars on both sides, ...
In the distance, storm clouds drop their torrent upon the sea as the ship breaks through heavy seas. The number on her bow — 85 — disappears and reappears with each crest of the waves. Suddenly above ...
Hundreds of old drawings of ships which visited Scotland in the inter-war years are going on display at an Edinburgh museum. An old suitcase containing 15 sketchbooks was handed in to Trinity House in ...