ss Galilah

Scratch built model in 1:100 scale for National Maritime Museum of Israel, Haifa.
Materials: wood, card, plastic.

The third ship acquired by ZIM. This vessel was built as a cruise ship on the Hudson River for the
American Railroad Company. During WWI she served as a troopship. After the war ended she returned to her original function as an excursion ship, but under different ownership, and was named DE WITT CLINTON after the Mayor of New York (1803-1815).
During the Depression in the 1930s the ship was laid up. WWII rescued her from unemployment, and she once again served as a troopship, this under the name COL. FREDERIC C. JOHNSON. When purchased by ZIM in 1948, she was already 35 years old, still a troop ship and named DIRECTOR. The fact that this was a troop ship made her suitable for ZIM`s requirements, since she was destined, first of all, to carry shiploads of new immigrants to Israel.
The ship arrived in Israel at the end of 1948, commanded by Capitan Eliezer Hodorov and manned by an entirely Jewish crew.
In Jan. 1949 she was first ship to bring exiles from the Cyprus camps. During her first three and a half months un ZIM`s service, she transported 11,000 new immigrants in 8 trips, 5,000 of them in 3 trips from Cyprus. With the end of the first wave of massive immigration, she became a regular passenger ship on the Haifa - Marseille - Genoa route. In the fall of 1952 her sailings terminated, and on April 8, 1953 she left Haifa to be scrapped in Italy, after 40 years of sea service.

Text: Hillel Yarkoni. "75 Years of Hebrew Shipping in Erez Israel" book.

Smerch

Scratch built card model in 1:250 scale.

Model by Igor Cherniak.

Russian monitor 1864.
The prototype was the Danish monitor "Rolf Krake".
Displacement - 1521 tons, twin-screw steam power plant power plants - 700 hp. with., speed - 8.75 knots. Length - 57.5 m in width - 11.6, the average deepening - 3.5 m.
Reservations: towers 114 mm, about 152 loopholes, belt 114, at 102 tip, 25.4 deck, fighting felling 114 mm. Armament: 2 229 - mm guns, 4 37 - mm cannon, 4 4 - pound cannon. Since in 1892 - battleship coastal defense. Since in 1909 - blokshiv № 2. In the First World War was used as a warehouse mines barricades. In 1918, the transition from Gelsingforsa in Kronshtadt, in the Great Patriotic War provided the actions of fleet forces, after the end of hostilities in the dismantled metal.

22-feet British steam cuter

Scratch built small British 22-feet cuter in 1:48 scale.
Plans & drawings - from Greenwich National Museum.
Materials: wood, cooper.
Model exhibit in private gallery.

Levant schooner

Another Levant schooner -- in 1:192 scale.
This type built in Beyrut in 1910.
Materials: wood, card, paper.

Model is on exhibit in CORAL Museum.

Viking war ship -- Drakkar

Scratch built wooden ship model in 1:48 scale.
Vikings longship -- Drakkar. Plans, drawings and descriptions for the model I took from material on the ship from Skuldelev. (Ship №2)
But instead made it 30 meters - 22 meters in original.

Cargo ship "Antilope"

1:250 card model from Wilhelmshavener - Möwe Verlag

Tramontana

1:19 wooden kit from Artesania Latina.

The llauds were the typical crafts of the Balearic Islands from the 18th until 1950.
The tramontana was a short-haul coastal trader used for fishing.