Download or read book Ships-in-bottles written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when sea voyages lasted months and even years, off-watch sailormen occupied themselves creating bits of nautical art from whatever raw material came to hand -- wood, rope, yarn, and of course, on whaling ships, the teeth and bones of whales and walrus. It is not surprising then that an empty bottle might have piqued the imagination of some long-gone salt and led him to devise the way of displaying miniature ships described in this book.