Nautical Antiques & Decor
2202 Ship Mechanic Row Galveston, TX 77550
409-539-5469
email: piecesofship@yahoo.com

left: Vintage Chinese Dive Helmet (sold) right: Clinometer and Barometer
 

Lifeboat Oars (these come in two color/finish options: (1) stripped and polished as shown in this photo or (2) unfinished marine safety orange color; most of the orange oars retain the lifeboat name on the sweep.) These range in length from about 11.5' to 14'.

salvaged ship key boxes

Ship stairs

Liferings

Norwegian Pattern Rotary Foghorn

Sun boats, Thai produce boats & dugouts

Boat benches (they're made from real boats!)

Whiskey Barrels (sold out - working on locating more...)

Ship grates - various woods including teak, mahogany and oak

Lobster cars and crab traps

Polynesian Boat Shelves (these too were once functioning boats!)

tiny pirot (sold), harpoons, lobster buoys

assorted decorative wood signs

Salvaged Pump foghorns (the ones your neighbors don't want you to purchase!)

Bullhorns - these colorful horns came off ships and they really work! Recent facelift with a color touchup...

Hatch Covers - make great benches, tables or shelves!

Air vents (aka "air scoop" or "cowling")

Double "binary" glass fishing net floats, ship grate chandelier, wired 90 degree passageway lights, wired 4-bar lights with port/starboard colors, bunk ladder

Shrimp nets - fresh from the Gulf! Various sizes and colors, but all authentic!


Signal flags - sorted by alphabetical order...

Round authentic portholes converted into porthole end tables! Vintage ship lanterns, framed fan coral artwork in reclaimed wood

Early Dive Helmet (sold)
copper fire extinguisher converted (sold)
Pelorus (sold)

Stadimeter
Pelorus
Great Lakes Steam Gages

Large steam gage
Medium sized gage: "Trimmer - Frank Morrison & Sons - Cleveland, Ohio. U.S.A."
Small gage "Great Lakes Engineering Works"

Cherub Ship's Log (sold) and various engine room oilers
C. Plath sextant
Engine Room Signalling Bell system (sold)

salvaged brass spotlight (wired); made in New York, USA
fluked anchors (sold out - more expected summer of 2012)
Ship's binnacle (sold - expecting more
summer 2012)

brass and copper lanterns, running lights, ship bell


salvaged brass and copper running lights (we have all
lighting put on a grider and polished before shipping)

portholes, sextants, antique doors hand-picked in India


woven rope and burlap bumpers also known as fenders

 

copper navigational lights
port and starboard lights, lifeboat binnacles with compass

copper port (red) running light (this is sold as a set with the green starboard mate)
assorted sized glass fishing floats

pump foghorns
pump style foghorns (expecting more in summer 2012...)

salvged brass ships hull plate: daewoo shipbuilding, okpo Korea


salvaged brass ships hull plate: Italcantieri - Sestri 1979

salvaged brass ships hull plate kurushima Dockyard Launching 1976
salvaged brass ships hull plate Szczecin Shipyard Poland 1980 *year of Poland's Independence: "Solidarity!" uprising which was led primarily by shipbuilders

trunk (sold - expecting another in summer 2012)
salvaged trunk

liferings
salvaged ship's safe (appx 400 lbs) - Yes, the key is included!
Sorry, treasure has been removed...

double mahogany ship doors with brass portholes salvged from UK passenger ship... we also carry single ship doors with brass portholes... 2 double sets salvaged off the vessel "Royal Empress" November 2009
Norwegian Pattern foghorn, XL brass port light
window with functional porthole

Authentic Ship Crockery
(Salvaged oceangoing vessel dinnerware)
 bearing each line’s unique House (aka “Company”) Flag or Funnel emblem
Sig. Bergesen d.y ASA (SOLD)
-Norwegian Ship Management company founded in 1935
-Tanker vessels, dry bulk cargo shipping, gas
-likely salvaged from the vessel Varanger (built 1974), sold & renamed (s/r) Faith 1984, s/r Faith I 1987, s/r Alice G 1991, s/r Seafriend 1991, s/r Akti A 1997, s/r Norna 2001, scrapped 2006.
Sig. Bergesen d.y ASA crockery (sold out)



Odfjell shipping crockery
-Norwegian shipping company founded in 1916
-Parcel Tankers, Tank terminal operators
-trademark orange vessels
-likely salvaged from vessel Taranger (built 1969), renamed Star Taranger 1972, sold & renamed (s/r) Star Najd 1978, s/r Star Orpheus 1980, s/r Star Luzon 1981, renamed San Juan Victory 1985, s/r Med Carrara 1990, scrapped 1994.


Storli
-Norwegian parent company of Odjfell Tankers
-flag spec: swallow-tailed white with 3 entwined blue circles
-likely salvaged from vessel Nordanger (built 1976), sold & renamed (s/r)
Bow Selene 1990, renamed NCC Madinah 1990, sold retained name 2000,
scrapped as Diana 2006.

 



Westfal-Larsen shipping crockery
-Norwegian shipping company founded in 1905
- entered into cooperation with Odfjell shipping in 1964
-de-merger changed ownership to Masterbulk (Singapore)
-likely salvaged from vessel Porsanger (built 1976), sold & renamed (s/r) Bow Saturn 1990, s/r NCC Jouf 1990, sold & retained name 2000, scrapped as Atria 2006.

Helge Myhre
- Norwegian Shipping Management company
- likely salvaged from the vessel originally named the Lord Kelvin in 1978…  renamed Helios 1987, renamed Herdis 1991, sold & renamed Jag Vayu 1997, scrapped 2009.

 
extra large salvaged hatch covers (app 9'7" long)

ship grates (these come in various sizes; call for availability)
salvaged brass lighting: post lights, four-bar lights, oslo post lights

ramed original photography by Wes Austin

block and tackle, brass ringed pulleys (Fall 2011: Compare to Restoration Hardware's Objets D'Art!)

lifeboat oars make great wall accents, curtain rods or handrails
we carry a variety of handcrafted metal sealife like this adorable blue crab;
many are made from recycled metals!

retired navigational charts from all over the world (some of the most interesting have hand-written notes to watch for pirates or tall reefs!)
original ship blueprint from vessel "City of Erie"; mounted and framed

salvaged country flags - "flags of convenience" from all around the world... Looking for a particular country? Just email us!
salvaged maritime signal flags - spell out whatever you want
just like the mariners do from A to Z!

foxlights (large size shown here)
foxlights

salvaged double mahogany ship doors with brass portholes from the scrapped vessel "Royal Empress"
Royal Empress doors

salvaged aluminum porthole converted to end table (sold out; check back for more in summer of 2012!)
aluminum porthole table, running lights

salvaged rectangular brass porthole - table conversion
brass porthole table

WWII era U.S. Navy engine order telegraph (EOT), bunk ladder, key box, glass fishing net floats, framed Galveston map, framed fan coral art

riddling rack (sold out), bunk ladder, geared steering station

port galvanized lantern

galvanized ship lanterns - fresnel lens

Brass and copper running lights, brass lifeboat binnacle
salvaged brass passageway lights, 90 degree passageway lights

salvaged aluminum porthole
salvaged aluminum and brass portholes

XL rectangular fixed brass porthole windows
tiki totems

ship wheel, trunk, pulley/block, shrimp nets, onion jug
XL brass port light window with functional porthole window

ship grates

Large Naval spotlight

Brass Signal Light

Small Brass Spotlight

vintage surfbords, ship grates, bugles, lobster car, onion jugs, keybox


portholes, tiny (new) brass cleats, ship wheel, lanterns, fishing floats, passageway lights, oars, foxlights

photo 14


galvanized ship lanterns

brass Oslo post lights
90 degree passageway light, ships bell

port and starboard running lights (sold), passageway light
brass post lights

USCG light
air vent, aka cowling or air scoop, figurehead (new)

original framed deck plans, "City of Erie"
boat shelves, porthole table, lantern, carved Mahi fish, bunk ladders

new painted figurehead (sold), "not under command" ship lantern

round brass porthold table, lantern

salvaged maritime signal flags - all letters of the alphabet
fishing net floats

ship grates, onion jugs
onion jugs

vintage surfboards