GUSN-188173
This full color postcard illustrates the launching of a six masted ship. In the harbor a tug boat assists the launch. Each mast is topped with a flag, and the launch is watched by many on shore. The hull of a second ship is being built in the same shipyard.
ships
masts
flags
shipbuilding
tugboats
shipyards
industrial buildings
labor
postcards
photographs
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.01.TMP.007
Bath (Sagadahoc county, Maine)
Hugh C. Leighton Co. (Manufacturer)
postcards
photographs
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 20.
Original in Postcards - Bath, Maine
Item
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