
Chattanooga Shipbuilders?
Submitted by Bill Mitchell on November 14, 2008 - 4:23pm.
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A couple hundred of the most determined artisans in the country are meeting here to show off their work.
The Nautical Society is a national organization of people who build model ships.
Some of those works of art on display took well over a 1000 hours of work and some would sell for 30-thousand dollars.
The Nautical club members from all over the country came to Chattanooga this year to hear the nautical stories of the Tennessee River. .
Gerald Shaw says the city's name plays a big part in navy history.
GERALD SHAW, CHATTANOOGA "In researching those ships, I became the chairman to do what I could to try and get the artifacts back to Chattanooga and try to get a Maritime Museum built."
Shaw says there's even a civil war era shipwreck in the river across from Ross's landing.
It's the first time this annual meeting has been held at an in-land American city.
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