Home - Ted Ireland

Ted Ireland

Click on thumbnail to view larger image:

Fortunately Ted retired from his real job in the finance department of a major chemical company in time to volunteer as a wood carver and member of the building crew on Wilmington Delaware’s Kalmar Nyckel project in 1996. The Kalmar Nyckel is a reproduction of the Dutch-built pinnace that brought the first Swedish settlers to the banks of the Christina River in what is now Wilmington, Delaware in 1638. The ornately decorated ship made three subsequent crossings to supply what became the first successful Swedish colonization of the Delaware Valley.

Ted, along with a hand full of other volunteer carvers, worked for two years carving the representations of seventeenth century sculptures that grace the Kalmar Nyckel and help make it unique among colonial reproductions. That experience prepared him for marine carving projects on other ships including the Kathryn M. Lee, an authentic, working Chesapeake Bay oyster schooner and the Irving and Exy Johnson, twin brigantines operated by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute.

Back to Product Page

Read Published Articles: 1. WOODEN SHIPS, IRON MEN, AND WORKS OF ART: A Chronology of Wooden Ships and Marine Art   2. THE CARVERS OF THE TITANIC

Purchase Book: Mallets, Chisels & Planes