Show Mini miniature Mt marure aturo pool Fleet contains famo famous us ships NEW york A boyhood hobby has enabled august crabtree bolac cumulate an entire fleet of ships all miniatures carved to scale ard and equipped to the most minute detail built by crabtree over the last 20 years tife collection of 14 ships includes nn egyptian galley of 1500 B C acoman ship that once plied the mediterranean a sailing ship chip of william the conquerors time col umit phi flagship the santa maria british britannica of 0 1840 crabtree started as a boy la in portland ors ora making models of ships that sailed the columbia river living 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 tolay bolay the body plan tor for the first liberty ship and a landing craft at a vancouver shipyard |