From collection J. E. Perkins Collection
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Image of the steam yacht APHRODITE tied up at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Visible in image: A view of bow-quarter view of APHRODITE after launch and fitting-out at BIW. The yacht has steam up, suggesting that this photograph was taken at or near delivery in March 1899. A crowd is gathered in the wharf under the large derrick. The people appear to be looking not at the large yacht but down the length of the hull at something not shown in the photograph. Of interest is the large roof erected over the launching ways and the curving walkway atop that roof, presumably to ease work on the rigging of large vessels. A pair of passenger steamers, one of which has the old-style paddlewheel boxes, are moored downriver from the Bath Iron Works yard. APHRODITE was commissioned into the U.S. Navy as USS APHRODITE in 1917 and served as a convoy escort. USS APHRODITE was decommissioned in 1919 and returned to her owner, was sold to a Greek transport company in 1928 for service in the Mediterranean, and was sunk there by German aircraft in 1941.
