I am fascinated with the time and effort it took the builders to build these fabulous model ships. These models were made to scale and were used to build the actual ship. In most cases, the models you see in the museums of sailing ships were part of the plans and promotion to raise money to build the ship. Military ships were no exception. It is interesting because a few of the model ships never became full-scale ships due to failure to raise the money or changes in plans by the governments. We have seen some very impressive collections of model ships in the Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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