“I have been collecting 1/1,200 scale model warships of the two world wars since 1969,” he said. ... Model ships served an important military purpose.

The old board game Battleship is taken to a whole new level when the captains of the Washington Cascade Column take to the water, as they did Monday in Tacoma.

It takes passion to recreate a piece of history, especially when records are incomplete and no one’s lived to tell the tale. One man’s passion is now turning into something tangible: he is recreating ...