Home | New | About Us | Categories | Policy | Links
Time Passages Nostalgia Company
Ron Toth, Jr., Proprietor
72 Charles Street
Rochester, New Hampshire 03867-3413
Phone: 1-603-335-2062
Email: ron.toth@timepassagesnostalgia.com
 
Search for:  
Select from:  
Show:  at once pictures only 
previous page
 Found 75 items 
next page
 1746 ... i698 i850 j939 k387 k388 ... l307 ... p432 ... q772
1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird’s Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate
Item #j939
Add this item to your shopping cart
Price: $74.99 
$10 shipping & handling
For Sale
Click here now for this limited time offer
Check Out With PayPalSee Our Store Policy

My items on eBay

Any group of items being offered as a lot must be sold as a lot.
Fast Dependable Service
An Ever Changing Inventory
All Original Items.
No Reproductions
You can feel secure
shopping with PayPal.
We have an extensive inventory that is not yet on our web site. If there is something you are looking for and did not find, please send us your wish list.
Quantity Discount Prices
(when available)
It's never too late to
have a happy childhood!
Quality Merchandise At Reasonable Prices
 
1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird's Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate
Thomas W. Hyde   Bath Iron Works   Bath   Maine   Kennebec River   Bird's Eye View   U.S. Navy   Ship   Shipping   Sailing   Shipbuilding   Shipyard   Drydock   Construction   Military   Sailor   War   World War I   WWI   World War II   WWII   Advertising   Souvenir   China   Plate   New England   United States   America   American   Americana   Transportation   Travel   Nostalgic   History   Historic   Battleship   Cruiser   Frigate   Destroyer   Gunboat   Fishing   Trawler   Freighter   Yacht   Boat   Boating
The pictures show front and back views of this 1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird's Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate. The exact year that this plate was made is unknown, but it is believed to be from the 1800s. The image on the plate has the shipyard including: sailing ships, buildings, pier, smokestacks, water, a horse, carriage or wagon, and a driver. The plate has a gold ring and a gold edge or rim. The plate is marked on the two sides as follows:

BATH IRON WORKS LIMITED
BATH, ME.
ESTABLISHED 1833
THOMAS W. HYDE PRESIDENT

MADE IN GERMANY
D.T. PERCY & SON
BATH, ME.

This historic plate measures 7'' wide. It appears to be in excellent condition with some wear to the gold painted rim as pictured. Below here, for reference is some information and a brief History of Bath Iron Works:

Bath Iron Works
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bath Iron Works
Type: Subsidiary
Industry: Shipbuilding
Founded: 1884
Founder: Thomas W. Hyde
Headquarters: Bath, Maine, U.S.A.
Number of locations: (1) Bath, Maine
Parent: General Dynamics

Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a major American shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, United States. Since its founding in 1884 (as Bath Iron Works, Limited), BIW has built private, commercial and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy. The shipyard has built and sometimes designed battleships, frigates, cruisers and destroyers, including the Arleigh Burke class, which are currently among the world's most advanced surface warships.

Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, the fifth largest defense contractor in the world (as of 2008). During World War II, ships built at BIW were considered by sailors and Navy officials to be of superior toughness, giving rise to the phrase ''Bath built is best built''.

History

Bath Iron Works was incorporated in 1884 by General Thomas W. Hyde, a native of Bath who served in the American Civil War. After the war, Hyde bought a local shop that helped make windlasses and other iron hardware for the wooden ships built in Bath's many shipyards. He expanded the business by improving its practices, entering new markets, and acquiring other local businesses.

By 1882, Hyde Windlass was eyeing the new and growing business of iron shipbuilding; two years later, it incorporated as Bath Iron Works. On February 28, 1890, BIW won its first contract for complete vessels, two iron gunboats for the United States Navy. The Machias, one of these 190 foot (58 m) gunboats, was the first ship launched by the company. Historian Snow says the gunboat was commanded during World War I by Chester Nimitz.

In 1892, the yard won its first commercial contract for a steel vessel, the 2,500 ton steel passenger steamer City of Lowell. In the 1890s, the company built several yachts for wealthy sailors.

In 1899, General Hyde, suffering from the Bright's Disease that would kill him later that year, resigned from management of the shipyard, leaving his sons Edward and John in charge. That year the shipyard began construction of the U.S.S. Georgia, the only battleship to be built in Bath. The ship dominated the yard for five years until its launching in 1904, and was at times the only ship under construction. The yard faced numerous challenges because of the weight of armor and weapons. In sea trials, the Georgia averaged 19.26 knots (35.67 km/h) for four hours, making her the fastest ship in her class and the fastest battleship in the Navy.

The company continued to rely on Navy contracts, which provided 86% of the value of new contracts between 1905 and 1917. The yard also produced fishing trawlers, freighters, and yachts throughout the first half of the century. At peak production during World War II (1943 - 1944), the shipyard launched a destroyer every 17 days. Bath Iron Works ranked 50th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.

In 1981, Falcon Transport ordered two tankers, the last commercial vessels built by BIW.

In 1988, the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts (FFG - 58), commissioned two years earlier at Bath, survived a mine explosion that tore a hole in its engine room and flooded two compartments. Over the next two years, BIW repaired the Roberts in unique fashion. The guided missile frigate was towed to the company's dry dock in Portland, Maine, and put up on blocks, where its damaged engine room was cut out of the ship. Meanwhile, workers in Bath built a 315 ton replacement. When it was ready, the module was floated south to Portland, placed on the dry dock, slid into place under the Roberts, jacked up, and welded into place. By surviving a hit that Naval Sea Systems Command engineers thought should have sunk her, the Roberts validated the penny-pinching design of the Oliver Hazard Perry class, the U.S. Navy's largest post WWII class until the Burkes; and validated the Navy's against the odds decision to have picked BIW to design it.

In 2001, BIW wrapped up a four year effort to build an enormous concrete platform, the Land Level Transfer Facility, for final assembly of its ships. Instead of being built on a sloping way so that they could slide into the Kennebec at launch, hulls were henceforth moved by rail from the platform horizontally onto a moveable dry dock. This greatly reduced the work involved in building and launching the ships. The 750 foot, 28,000 ton dry dock was built by China's Jiangdu Yuchai Shipbuilding Company for $27 million.

Click on image to zoom.
1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird’s Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate 1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird’s Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate 1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird’s Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate 1800s Bath Iron Works Limited Bird’s Eye View Advertising Souvenir China Plate


Powered by Nose The Hamster (0.11,1)
Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:13:12 [ 727 0.08 0.1]
 
© 1997-2024, Time Passages Nostalgia Company / Ron Toth, Jr., All rights reserved