The ability to sail faster and more efficiently can also be safer and more satisfying. Peter K Poland shares his tips to ...

x 60-in. piece of 16-oz. copper sheeting. Screw down a 2x4 frame on your bench top to provide clearance for bending down the edges. Start by snipping the corners of the copper with a tin snips. Then ...

Polish company Rextorn Metalwork has recreated the House Stark Direwolf emblem using copper sheeting. The design is first sketched out onto the 1.0mm thick copper sheeting before being heated to ...

Mr Bull contacted an expert on copper sheathing, John Bingeman, who said the stamp was likely put on by workers at Mines Royal, who produced the sheets which were later hammered on to the ship's hull.

Muntz metal, so well known, is composed of 60 parts copper and 40 parts of zinc. Muntz obtained a patent in England for the application of brass sheathing for ships, and when he died a few years ...

Paul Revere forged the copper spikes and bolts that held the planks in place and the copper sheathing that protected the hull. Thus armed, she first put to sea in July 1798 and saw her first ...

The threads of this screw were turned from solid brass on a lathe. Two box-shaped pans were formed by folding copper sheeting and soldering the edges. A pivot point for the bottom end of the screw to ...

At the suspected Guerrero site, they’ve found some other promising artifacts, including a piece of ceramic plate and copper sheathing. The Guerrero was known to have a copper-covered hull, which was ...

NEW YORK - Happy 138th birthday to the Statue of Liberty, an iconic landmark that is uniquely New York. The statue was ...

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull. After Fletcher Christian and the mutineers arrived at Pitcairn they stripped the Bounty of ...

Copper sheeting was used to cover the hulls of ships to prevent attack from the Teredo worm in Meditteranean waters.Towards the end of the 18thC, Copper Ore was mined at Pary`s Mountain ...

The first-place entry, like Sherbinin's in 2023, earns a piece of historic copper sheathing from the USS Constitution along with a certificate for the writer. Coincidently, the two ships that won ...