It’s almost time again for the Lego ship building challenge at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro. The annual contest, set this year from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 13, embraces builders of all ...

How do you fit a battleship, a train and the Mariana Islands into one building? You make them out of Legos. The traveling ...

They plucked and measured and experimented, fitting the brightly colored plastic pieces together, growing them into seafaring crafts to be used for all kinds of fun and work — real and imaginary.

The view from the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro looks out onto the Port of Los Angeles’ main shipping channel — and the various vessels that traverse it. During any given time, you can spot ...