Some of the Model Ships I Saw at the Museu de Marinha in Lisbon

Photos from my recent visit

Vasco da Gama (1878), a central battery ironclad vessel of the Portuguese Navy

Business recently took me to Lisbon, Portugal, where I took a side visit to the Museu de Marinha, the Portuguese Naval Museum. Housed in the Monastery de Santa Maria de Belém, better-known as the Monastery of Jerónimos, the collection includes dozens of beautiful ship models i…