The wooden plank, often mistakenly referred to as a door, that saved Rose's life at the end of 1997 film "Titanic" sold for more than $700,000 at auction. Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions ...

The Greek writer Plutarch proposed this question: If a ship's planks are replaced over time due to wear and tear until none of the original pieces remain, is it still the same ship?

They were ages 25 to retirement and they listened raptly as the boyish, gray-bearded Rossel explained how to space ribs, fasten planking and avoid making a snub-nose bow.

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He may then decide to build model aircraft. “If I do, I’ll build them out of wood, as I did the ships, not plastic. I don’t like plastic,” he says.

In the case of the World Trade Center discovery, the ship was made of wood from hickory, spruce, pine, and oak, but Cook and his colleagues based their findings on tree rings contained in planks ...

“A wooden boat is a different feeling,” Homer muses. “It feels like it’s alive. When you turn and walk away, you look back and you say, ’My God, that’s a beautiful thing.” ...

Passion pours into every model ship that 85-year-old Greg Zimmerman builds in the wood shop of Naperville's Monarch Landing senior living community. But painstakingly crafting a dozen intricate ...