Fifty-Two Ships Navy Is Whittled of Balsa Wood
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Seventeen-year-old William Tompkins of Hollywood high school has-a good start toward a two-ocean navy. For more than three years he has been whittling model ships from balsa wood, and today has a navy of 52 vessels. His tools were razor blades, pliers and jack knife, his materials balsa and Strips of sheet aluminum. The models cover a wide range of types, including dreadnaughts, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and small surface craft, all carved accurately to scale. The largest vessel in the fleet is a model of the aircraft carrier Lexington.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Fifty-Two Ships Navy Is Whittled of Balsa Wood
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Fifty-Two Ships Navy Is Whittled of Balsa Wood
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-08
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 76, n. 2, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 87
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- Hollywood
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
