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Some model shipwright guilds are incorporated into government and Naval facilities, achieving a semi-official status as a clearinghouse for information on naval history, ship design and, at times, teaching the craft of ship modeling, through model building, restoration, repair of the facility's models, as well as, museum docent services.
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Location of Marin County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marin County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marin County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Want to buy a lighthouse? Or perhaps an island? These unusual fixer-uppers are priced to move but come with red tape because of a difficult seller: Uncle Sam. The General Services Administration ...
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 ...
Exhibits include a history of commercial diving in Los Angeles Harbor and a Navy Hall that features large ship models such as the U.S. Navy cruiser Los Angeles and the SS Poseidon model from the 1972 disaster film The Poseidon Adventure. The museum also has an exhibit that chronicles the once thriving San Pedro fishing industry.
The 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended that the Center be closed. [2] It was closed in 1998, and in 1999, the Navy transferred the entire 531-acre (2.15 km 2) property to the Port of Oakland. The new owner plans to develop it for intermodal freight transport involving a marine terminal, railroad, and truck cargo activities ...
The Frolic was a brig which sank northeast of Point Cabrillo, near Caspar, California.Historians have called it "the most significant shipwreck on the west coast". [2] Its shipwreck site, later known as "Pottery Cove" or "Frolic Cove", [3] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Frolic (brig) in 1991.