The Royal Navy is designing their next carrier. Neat article with details about the ship and the building and design process. Its going to be too large to build in their existing facilities, so their are going to build it piecemeal and then assemble the chunks Lego style.

What an incredible model... A ship model and Lego's to boot. It even includes a battery operated derrick, and lots of auxiliary craft.

There's a 184 picture set on Flickr detailing his progress during his build.

He even build a 20' ship (that's 2/3rd the length of my boat!) in 7 months.

I"ve long enjoyed touring various ships that have been retired and put on display. I ran across the link to the U.S.S. Slater today... looks interesting. Being privately owned by a non-profit organization, they have used volunteer labor (retired Navy personnel and other interested folks) to restore and renovate the only WWII destroyer escort still afloat. read more »