Modeler: Fox, Bill

One of three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his expedition that reached the West Indies

Built in 1891, Dorothy is the first ship constructed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia.

Philadelphia was a gunboat manned by Continental Army soldiers during the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain), October 1776.

A fishing boat from Nazare, Portugal.

Two sailor-built models of typical Genoese / Ligurian fishing boats, and a half-hull of the same vessel type.

Halve Maen (Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company ship that sailed into what is now New York in 1609. She was attempting to find a western passage to China.

Confederate ironclad built from the scuttled USS Merrimack. Fought USS Monitor in the first conflict between ironclads at the Battle of Hampton Roads.