Darryl Karrew of Narraganset, Rhode Island had the largest collection of ships in bottles in New England, having carried on his great grandfather’s hobby. That is, until the great nor’easter of ‘87, which flooded his house and washed out the entire fleet. Turns out a good number of them were seaworthy; folks were finding them washed up on beaches up and down the Atlantic seaboard for the next ten years.
