From collection J. E. Perkins Collection
Bath waterfront
Image of the Bath, Maine waterfront. Visible in image: View of Bath's waterfront from a steamer at its berth. In the foreground, the steam tug CHARLIE LAWRENCE, homeport Gardiner, Maine, is moored to the same wharf as the passenger steamer. To its immediate left can be seen a retractable gangway with an 'A' frame support, a fixture of other wharves up the river. Beyond the CHARLIE LAWRENCE lies a passenger steamer, moored broadside-on, and two other moored tugs stern-to. A single-masted sailing scow appears to be the next vessel, up, followed by several empty wharves. A crowd of schooners of three or more masts are moored at the bend in the river. Four schooners, two with three masts and one with apparently more, are anchored in mid-river. Beyond them, a four-masted sailing barge has just been launched. The exact date of this image is not presently known.
