Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — Where Ships Were Made. [ARTICLE]

Where Ships Were Made.

The name of Bath, Maine, is as inseparably associated -with the history of the merchant marine of the United States, and particularly with the American ship building industry, as that of Pittsburg is with the iron and steel incftistry in this country, or that of Glasgow’ with marine Construction in the united kingdom, says the National Magazine, As a port of entry, Bath; which once -occupied a' prominent position rand did a flourishing trade with tiie West Indies and Europe, has sunk into comparative insignificance, on account of the location of its magnificent harbor so far from the great pathways of present-day American commerce; but as a ship-building center, it has retained the “preStige won when its sh Ips were on every sea and in every port in the world, in that much regretted ante helium epoch, when the American flag was as familiar wherever the commercecarriers of the sea penetrated as the red ensign of the mistress of the seas. Neither the increasing distance of the Bath shipyards from the materials which they consume, nor the partial change from wood to steel in hull construction, have operated to deprive this staid community of its still unchallenged sobriquet, the City of Ships. 7