Small Ship Models

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that was produced by the White Star Line.  It has entered American folkloric proportions by becoming the worst civilian naval casualty during peacetime.  During the tragic day when the Titanic sank, 1,517 people died.  It happened on April 15, 1912, a time when technical innovations were dominating the imaginations of people all over the world. 

In 1912, she was the biggest passenger steamship on Earth.  Ironically, she was advertised as unsinkable.  After hitting an iceberg, it took two hours and forty minutes for her to go down.  The wreck has since become something close to a myth as we are still in awe of the happening on that infamous day and all the details that were uncovered since.  Titanic model ships depict the boat beautifully and point to its awesome power and majesty.

When I was a kid, the best memory that I have is of playing with my model boats with my dad.  We would build them, polish them, refine them, and study them.  There were a myriad of activities that my dad loved to do with the boats in our collection and loved them all.  What made him fascinated by boats was the book Treasure Island.  He just felt like that book was the ultimate in adventure and good natured mayhem and it translated for him in life with a lifelong fascination with wooden boats.
 
 The first boat that he had, that my grandfather helped him build was the present that my father gave me on my high school graduation.  He said that he wanted me to see the world, and the boat was symbolic of all his hopes and dreams for me.  I hope to get my daughter into model boats as soon as she can walk.