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Show Miniature Fleet Contains Famous Ships NEW YORK. A boyhood hobby ! has enabled August Crabtree to accumulate ac-cumulate an entire fleet of ships, all miniatures carved to scale and equipped to the most minute detail. Built by Crabtree over the last I 20 years, the collection of 14 ships i includes an Egyptian galley of 1500 B. C, a Roman ship that once plied the Mediterranean, a sailing ship of William the Conqueror's time, Columbus' Col-umbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, and the British Britannica of 1840. Crabtree started as a boy in Portland, Port-land, Ore., making models of ships that sailed the Columbia river. Living Liv-ing on a small private income, he continued to carve on his collection although friends "thought it was a crazy idea." During the war Crabtree put aside his hobby to lay the body plan for the first Liberty ship and a landing craft at a Vancouver shipyard. |