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

We hand-select our ship salvage from "ship breaking" yards around the world; items are actually salvaged from working vessels. Once retired, the ships are scrapped and all the tools, parts and various components are stored in these yards until we buy them.

Some items we have refurbished, some we keep as-is. This inventory is always changing as we try to find new pieces each time we comb the breaking yards during our travels.

Click on the subcategory of your choice below to view that page.
*Items pictured under each category will read "available" under the photo if available; otherwise, that item has been sold.

*Hint: use the "control F" buttons to search this page for keywords such as hatch cover, foxlights or charts*

  

salvaged fluked kedge (aka "Yachtsman") anchors
Anchors, Anchor Chain, Propellers & Capstans
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painted kedge yachtsman anchor

a great double sheaved pair of pulleys
Block Pulleys
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Most have been reconditioned, stripped and polished.  These come to us in a variety of sizes, some with hooks, eyes, beckets, etc and some without.  Single wheeled, double sheaved (wheels) and occasionally a triple or more here and there...

...and deadeyes.

double sheaved block pulleys

Sig. Bergesen crockery
Crockery (CLICK HERE):
Salvaged from ships - all original from oceangoing vessels... Dinnerware (cups, plates, saucers, bowls) bearing each line’s unique House Flag emblem

**We hand pick all our crockery during our annual buying trips, so these batches only come in once a year and specialty pieces (mugs, egg cups, serving pieces) are in demand...
 
Doors
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All of our ship doors are salvaged from actual ships - passenger, ferry, yacht, merchant marine, etc.  They have a round or square window and typically come with the frame and hardware, but not always.  We only receive a few in each shipment.

salvaged Alfa signal flag
Flags:
a SEA of salvaged maritime country, signal and pennant flags

salvaged Zulu signal flag

manual pump foghorn
Foghorns & Bells
 
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 manual pump foghorns (aka "manual whistles), pneumatic horns, and sirens

Norwegian pattern rotary manual foghorn
Grates, Hatch Covers & decking / flooring
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Used as flooring,  grates were made from hard or soft wood depending on the budget of the ship.

Hatch covers (aka hatch boards or beams) are typically long, heavy, solid slabs of wood with two carved out hand holds.

solid brass cast cleats 10" long
Hardware, Cleats & Cannons
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Barrels, belaying pins, bitts, bollards, cannons (and other weaponry), cleats, deck prisms, electrical switches/receptacles, fids, oar lock hooks, shackles, speaking tubes, etc...

salvaged iron line cannon, NYC mfr

Szczecin Shipyard Poland 1976 builder's plate
Hull Plates / Builder Plates, Ship logos, Name Boards
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All our brass and aluminum builder's  plates / hull plates are salvaged from ships, the actual dock or a shipyard.  Many have the date and hull number of a particular ship, some feature graphics, logos or special unique images.

Logos and Name boards are salvaged from ships and bear the vessel name and/or flag (emblem/logo)

Sabine Towing Company, Houston TX salvaged
name board

Polish inclinometer

Instruments:  Clinometers / Inclinometers, Rudder Angle Indicators & Trim Indicators
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used to measure the list of a ship in still water and the roll in rough water


aluminum inclinometer by Kelvin Hughes

1943 C. Plath sextant
Instruments: Navigational
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Anemometers, Barometers, Chronometers, Clocks, Gauges, Manual Heading Indicators, Octants, optical tools (binoculars, telescopes), RPM gauges, Sextants, Stadimeters, ship logs / taffrail logs - all salvaged from ships. 


French manufactured barometer

salvaged manual heading indicator
Instruments: Sound Powered Ship Telephones
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Ship phones are a rare find and each is one-of-a-kind...

salvaged ship's keyboxes
Keyboxes
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All salvaged from merchant marine vessels, these range in size and condition...  Great display for lure collections or keeping all the family's keys in one place!

salvaged double panel keybox

salvaged ship handrails
Ladders, Stairs & Handrails
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 All from ships: cabin bunk ladders, pilot / Jacob's ladders, railing, mahogany hand rail and caprails...

ship staircase

lifering from the "Alex King" of Panama
Lifesaving Devices:
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all salvaged: liferings (ring buoy, life ring, life preserver, lifesaver), lifeboat oars, retrieval poles, etc...

salvaged wooden lifeboat oars


salvaged galvanized ship lanterns w/ Fresnel lenses
Lights & Lanterns
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Salvaged from merchant marine and cruise ships, lighting on board varied in size, material (galvanized steel, brass, copper, aluminum), and type (electric running lights, oil burning lanterns, etc.)

Large sized copper and brass salvaged fox lights / cargo lights.

salvaged brass passageway lights

Polynesian boat converted to a bench
Reclaimed boats:
Boatwood Furniture, Accessories, Rudders
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We get actual small boats and the occasional dinghy as well as salvaged dugouts and outriggers that have been converted to furniture.  
Salvaged rudders make artistic wall features.

boat rudder

salvaged hand woven rope fender
Rope / Line & Fishing tools: Fenders, Bumpers, Nets, Traps:  
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Anything made with rope (line): rope fenders/bumpers, wood buoys, raw line (cable), fishing and cargo nets, hand woven day markers / day shapes, lobster cars, float lines, Maine lobster traps, oyster pots, etc...

1" gauge salvaged line
 
Swedish ship's exit placard
Salvage as ART
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 Salvaged art and remnants from cruise ships, sounding boards, original deck plans and blueprints

framed original deck plan / blueprint "City of Erie"
Steamer Trunks and Cargo Crates / boxes (CLICK HERE):
Steamer trunks from the British Raj when Great Britain occupied India (1850s - 1940s) - they stored passengers' personal valuables during ocean transit... and general cargo boxes, cargo crates and other salvaged ship boxes
 ... Misc Ship breaking yard finds
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all salvaged items we hand pick at the breaking yards that don't have a category of their own... furniture, air scoops / cowlings / air vents, deckhand megaphones / bullhorns / hailing trumpets, fire fighting equipment, dive pumps, gears...

salvaged steel cowl / air vent scoop
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