Web Resources

Ship Modeling Clubs

Atlanta Model Shipwrights - Atlanta, GA

Cape Ann Ship Modelers Guild - Gloucester, MA

    (no webpage as of 1/2018, contact Brad at biggie16 @ gis.net)

Connecticut Marine Model Society - West Haven, CT

Hampton Roads Ship Model Society - Newport News, VA

Marine Modelers Club of New England - Greater Boston, MA

Merrimack Valley Ship Model Club, Newburyport, MA

Midwest Model Shipwrights - Mount Prospect, IL

Philadelphia Ship Model Society - Philadelphia, PA

Rocky Mountain Shipwrights - Denver, Colorado

Ship Model Society of New Jersey - New Jersey

Ship Modelers Association - Los Angeles, California

Shipwrights of Central Ohio - Westerville, Ohio

Tampa Bay Ship Model Society - St. Petersburg, FL

Washington Ship Model Society - Washington, DC

References, Publications

Model Ship World- Nautical Research Guild's online forum

Floating Drydock - U.S. Navy info

Glencannon Press - maritime books

U.S. Naval Institute

Wooden Boat Magazine

Kate Cory by Tom Lauria

Local Maritime Museums

Battleship Cove - Fall River, MA

Cape Cod Maritime Museum - Hyannis, MA

Connecticut River Museum - Essex, CT

Custom House Maritime Museum - New London, CT

Egan Maritime Museum - Nantucket, MA

Essex Shipbuilding Museum - Essex, MA

Hart Nautical Collection - MIT, Cambridge, MA

Herreshoff Marine Museum
& America’s Cup Hall of Fame
- Bristol, RI

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum - Vergennes, VT

Maine Maritime Museum - Bath, ME

Mariners’ Museum - Newport News, VA

Mystic Seaport - Mystic, CT

Nantucket Historical Association - Nantucket, MA

Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, Nantucket, MA

Nantucket Lightship LV-112, Boston, MA

National Maritime Historical Society - Peekskill, NY

New Bedford Whaling Museum - New Bedford, MA

Noank Historical Society - Noank, CT

Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, MA

Penobscot Marine Museum - Penobscot, ME

Salem Maritime National Historic Site - Salem, MA

Scituate Maritime & Mossing Museum - Scituate, MA

US Coast Guard Museum - New London, CT

USS Albacore - Portsmouth, NH

USS Constitution Museum - Charlestown, MA

USS Nautilus - Groton, CT

US Navy War College Museum - Newport, RI

Commercial

A. J. Fisher - models & kits

Age of Sail - modes, kits, tools

Alterscale - Outboard miniatures

American Marine Model Gallery - Gloucester, MA

Bluejacket Ship Crafters - Searsport, ME

Cottage Industry Models - Greenwood, SC

Dens Model Ships - Abbottstown, PA

Digital Navy - Paper & Card model kits

Lannan Ship Model Gallery - Boston, MA

Loyalhanna Dockyard - Bergen, NY

Lumberyard for Model Shipwrights - Brecksville, OH

Micro-mark - small tool specialists - Berkeley Heights, NJ

Model Expo - Hollywood, FL

Peil Craftsmen - Norfolk, MA

SeaWatch Books - books for ship modelers, historians, & ship lovers

Syren Ship Models - kits, fittings, lumber

Ten Pound Island Book Company - Gloucester, MA

Vanguard Models by Chris Watton - UK