The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.

It has been suggested that this is the primal form from which the European figurehead was evolved. John Chinaman does not appear to have cultivated to any great extent the taste for going down to ...

And Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sure looks like the inspiration for the yacht’s figurehead. The Daily Mail referred to the polished wooden sculpture on the yacht’s prow as a ...

Lauren Sánchez debunked the widely held thought that the figurehead mounted on Jeff Bezos $500 million yacht is her. “I’m very flattered, but it’s not,” Sánchez told Vogue in a lengthy ...

Gladstone Maritime History Society president Ced Janson, who took temporary possession of the figurehead only two months ago, believes he has solved the mystery. "It is the figurehead from the ...