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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 ...
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 at the Battle of Gettysburg .
The Kite-class minesweepers were a class of two ships operated by the United States Navy during World War II . Both ships were built as fishing trawlers in 1928 by the Bath Iron Works Corporation of Bath, Maine, for F. J. O'Hara and Sons, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. The ships were acquired by the U.S. Navy in late 1940, and converted to ...
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.
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.
2 × .30 caliber machine guns. USS Linnet (AM-76), was a Kite -class minesweeper of the United States Navy during World War II . Laid down on 18 June 1928 as the M/V Georgetown by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, for F. J. O'Hara and Sons, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. The ship was launched on 15 December 1928, and delivered on 19 December ...
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 ...
The ship was launched by Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine, on 12 July 1952. Originally designated DD-928 she was reclassified in 1951 as a destroyer leader. She was sponsored by Roberta McCain, the daughter-in-law of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr. (born 1884), and commissioned on 12 October 1953 at the Boston Naval Shipyard. History