• About The Carver
• About The Carvings
• Carvings Gallery

• Amish Community
• Legal Ivory
• Building Our Future
• Newsletter
• FAQ
• Contact Us
• Homepage

• First Dynasty Royal Boat (3000 BC) Although ships were used prior to 3000 B.C., we know too little about them to create any accurate reconstructions. ... View Details

  ---

• Fourth Dynasty Royal Ship (2670 BC) Passenger ships and royal ships of the 4th Dynasty were under sail and paddle power. The deck planking near ... View Details

  ---

• The Royal Ship of Pharaoh Cheops (2600 BC) Pharaoh Cheops was the builder of the largest of the three great pyramids at Giza, Egypt. The pyramid itself ... View Details

  ---

• The Punt Ship of Pharaoh Sahure (2540 BC) As early as the 26th Century B.C. The Egyptians built sturdy ocean-going ships, like this one, to travel to ... View Details

  ---

• Eye of the Sun (2450 BC) A Fifth Dynasty cargo vessel the "Eye of the Sun" would sail the Nile carrying a wide variety of ... View Details

  ---

• Fifth Dynasty Travelling Ship (2450 BC) This carving represents a passenger ship from early Egyptian times ( 2450 BC ) . Most Egyptian ships were ... View Details

  ---

• El Amarna (2350 BC) A small sixth Dynasty Egyptian passenger ship from 2350 B.C. The sail on this ship was triangular in shape ... View Details

  ---

• Sixth Dynasty Travelling Ship (2300 BC) A passenger ship used on the Nile River in the year 2300 B.C. The Cage on the back of ... View Details

  ---

• Prince Mesehti's Royal Ship (2100 BC) This carving shows an Egyptian Royal Ship from 2100 B.C., with its mast in the down position. When masts ... View Details

  ---

• Meketre's Ship (2025 BC) The powerful courtier Meketre lived in Eleventh Dynasty Egypt and served as an advisor and counselor to Pharaoh. Egyptologists ... View Details

  ---

• El Omari (2000 BC) An Egyptian passenger ship of 2000 B.C.. By this time Middle Kingdom ships often featured rounded spoon shaped hulls ... View Details

  ---

• Field of Rushes (1850 BC) Field of Rushes is an Egyptian funerary boat dating to 1850 B.C.. Ancient Egyptians believed the dead had to ... View Details

  ---

• Pharaoh's Runner (1790 BC) A late 12th Dynasty ship, this Nile watercraft would serve as a courier-warship for Pharaoh. This ship would carry ... View Details

  ---

• The Punt Ship of Queen Hatshepsut (1500 BC) "Queen H," as she is known today, ruled Egypt from 1500 B.C. to 1480 B.C.. Peace and domestic tranquility prevailed ... View Details

  ---

• Royal Ship of Queen Hatshepsut (1490 BC) This 75 foot royal yacht was used by Egypt's famous Queen Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty. The 18th Dynasty ... View Details

  ---

• Star of Memphis (1350 BC) Highly decorated ships like this one sailed the Nile in the ancient Egyptian times. This particular ship is from ... View Details

  ---

• Ulu Burun (1350 BC) This Canaanite ship dating to 1350 B.C. was found wrecked off the coast of Turkey by underwater archaeologists in ... View Details

  ---

• Royal Ship of Tutankamen (1335 BC) This 88 foot royal yacht was used by Egypt's famous Pharaoh Tutankhamen, who reigned from 1339 to 1327 B.C. ... View Details

  ---

• Merchant of Gebel (1200 BC) Along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sprang several city-states noted for their commerce. By 1200 B.C. ships like ... View Details

  ---

• Lioness of Thebes (1190 BC) Ramses III of Egypt's 20th Dynasty is usually regarded as the last great King of Egypt. He was successful ... View Details

  ---

• Swift Warrior (800 BC) View Details

  ---

• Europa (750 BC) By 800 B.C. The Greek mainland and the many islands in the Aegean Sea were beginning to take the ... View Details

  ---

• Winds of Arvad (750 BC) The Phoenicians were the greatest seafarers and traders of the ancient world. Situated on the eastern Mediterranean where Lebanon ... View Details

  ---

• Sword of Ninevah (700 BC) View Details

  ---

• Wild Boar (550 BC) By the 6th Century B.C. the Greek warship had evolved from dug out craft into lightweight plank on frame ... View Details

  ---

• Young Lady of Tarquinia (450 BC) This is the first ship known to have two masts. Sailing from Tarquinia, a city 50 miles northwest of ... View Details

  ---

• Angel Eyes (400 BC) A merchant vessel sailing from the island of Cyprus about the year 400 B.C.. This ship was typical of ... View Details

  ---

• Huntress of Athens (330 BC) The warship developed in the Mediterranean and the Greeks developed the ultimate warship known as the "Trireme" where 170 ... View Details

  ---

• Yassi Ada (100 BC) View Details

  ---

• Neptunus of Ostia (200 AD) This carving represents a Roman merchant vessel from about 200 A.D. . Neptunus was the God of the ocean ... View Details

  ---

• Yassi Ada (650 AD) This ship dates from the seventh century A.D. It was recovered by an underwater archaeological team in 1961 off ... View Details

  ---

• Gotland (1225 AD) This ship sailed from the large island of Gotland off the Swedish coast in the early 1200's A.D. She ... View Details

  ---

• Venicia (1270 AD) Throughout the medieval period, the Italian Republic of Venice was a leading commercial center in southern Europe. Ships like ... View Details

  ---

• San Eustorgio (1339 AD) A small coastal trading vessel used in Italy. Ships like this would deliver goods to small town merchants along ... View Details

  ---

• City of Elbing (1350 AD) Castles first came into use on ships during the medieval years and were first employed on the merchant ships ... View Details

  ---

• Pride of Danzig (1400 AD) By the year 1400 the North of Europe was actively engaged in building stronger and faster ships with greater ... View Details

  ---

• Nina (1492 AD) THE SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Plans for these ships were provided by the U.S. Naval Institute and were researched and ... View Details

  ---

• Pinta (1492 AD) THE SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Plans for these ships were provided by the U.S. Naval Institute and were researched and ... View Details

  ---

• Santa Maria (1492 AD) THE SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Plans for these ships were provided by the U.S. Naval Institute and were researched and ... View Details

  ---

• Matthew (1497 AD) John Cabot's exploration ship which discovered North America when it reached the "New Founde Lande" on June 24, 1497. ... View Details

  ---

• Victoria (1519 AD) The Victoria was the first ship to sail around the world. This circumnavigation required nearly 3 years to complete. ... View Details

  ---

• Golden Hinde (1577 AD) Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the earth and, along the way, he plundered every Spanish ... View Details

  ---

• Susan Constant (1607 AD) This ship brought the first settlers to Jamestown Virginia in 1607. Sailing from England with two smaller ships, Susan ... View Details

  ---

• Half Moon (1609 AD) Sailing under the Dutch flag aboard the Half Moon, Henry Hudson explored America's east coast from the Chesapeake Bay ... View Details

  ---

• Mayflower (1620 AD) The Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620. The Pilgrims were English Separatists who sought freedom from religious ... View Details

  ---

• H.M.S.Endeavor (1768 AD) This ship was used by Captain James Cook in his first voyage of exploration in the Pacific. From 1768 ... View Details

  ---

• BonHomme Richard (1779 AD) On September 23rd 1779, Captain John Paul Jones engaged the British ship HMS Serapis off the coast of England ... View Details

  ---

• H.M.S. Bounty (1787 AD) The Bounty left England in late 1787 with a mission to transport Breadfruit trees from the East Indies to ... View Details

  ---

• Ayesha (1792 AD) A Barbary Coast Pirate Xebec of the late 1700's. These ships raided European commerce from the Mediterranean to the ... View Details

  ---

• USS Constitution (1797 AD) One of six heavy Frigates authorized in 1794 to form the U.S. Navy, Constitution launched her 57 year fighting ... View Details

  ---

• USS Essex (1799 AD) On the successful completion of the War of Independence, the American Navy was disbanded, and it was not until ... View Details

  ---

• Prince de Neufchatel (1812 AD) Privateers were small privately owned warships which were sanctioned by a government during wartime to raid enemy commerce. This ... View Details

  ---

• Niagara (1813 AD) The relief flagship that Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Captained in the battle of Lake Erie, a major naval battle ... View Details

  ---

• Lagoda (1826 AD) The Lagoda was built in 1826 in Scituate, Massachusetts. She was used as a merchant ship until 1841 when ... View Details

  ---

• Lightning (1854 AD) Lightning was designed and built by Donald McKay at East Boston, Massachusetts in 1854. McKay was a ship designer ... View Details

  ---

• Sunbeam (1856 AD) Built in Mattapoisett Massachusetts in 1856, the Sunbeam served as a whaling ship until 1909 when she was sold ... View Details

  ---

• Josephine (1877 AD) Josephine was a very sleek and pretty whaleship that was built in Bath , Maine in 1877. She sailed ... View Details

  ---

• Wanderer (1878 AD) Built in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts in 1878, the "Wanderer" was one of the more famous ships in the American Whaling ... View Details

  ---

• Carnegie (1909 AD) The Carnegie was launched in 1909 by The Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C. It was designed and used as ... View Details

  ---

• Viola  (1910 AD) The Viola was a small whaling vessel built in 1910 at the end of the sailing-whaling era in America. ... View Details

  ---

• U.S.C.G.C. Eagle (1936 AD) This carving of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Eagle" was the first major ship model made by David Warther ... View Details

  ---

Carvings Gallery

Mission Statement © 2009 David Warther Carvings | PO Box 6 | Dover , Ohio 44622 | 330-343-1865
Photographs for Media