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Bath Iron Works ( BIW) is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, one of the world's largest defense companies. BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels, most of which have been ...
Alonzo Jesse Harriman was born July 6, 1898, in Bath, Maine to Charles Alonzo Harriman and Nellie D. (Coombs) Harriman. He was educated in the Bath public schools and graduated from Morse High School. Originally intending to be a shipbuilder, he graduated from the University of Maine in 1920 with a BS in mechanical engineering.
The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II. Run by the U.S. Maritime Commission, the program built almost 6,000 ships. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
USS Du Pont (DD-941), named for Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont USN (1803–1865), [1] was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine and launched by Mrs. H. B. Du Pont, great-great-grandniece of Rear Admiral Du Pont; and commissioned 1 July 1957, Commander W. J. Maddocks in command.
By then, Nixon had re-entered the shipbuilding business by leasing a yard in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1905 John S. Hyde, son of the founder of the Bath Iron Works, purchased the Iron Works and Hyde Windlass Co. from the surviving company, which had bought the companies out of the receivership.
July 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM. BATH, Maine (AP) — With an Irish flag overhead and bagpipes playing, three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross christened a warship bearing his name ...
Senator, Mayor, Founder of Bath Iron Works. Signature. Thomas Worcester Hyde (January 16, 1841 – December 14, 1899) was an American Union Army colonel, a state senator from Maine, and the founder of the Bath Iron Works, one of the major shipyards in the United States. He wrote two books about his experiences during the American Civil War and ...
Designated NHL. 21 June 1990 [ 2] USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman -class destroyer, formerly of the United States Navy, built by Bath Iron Works in Maine in 1958. Her home port was Long Beach, California and she initially served in the Western Pacific/Far East, operating particularly in the Taiwan Strait and off the coast of Vietnam.