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Thousands gathered in Bath Saturday to watch the christening and launch of Virginia, a reconstruction of the first English-built oceangoing ship built in the Americas.
The 58-foot sailing ship, which was built by volunteers over the past 13-yrs, is a replica of what is considered the first ship built by Europeans in the New World.
Thousands gathered in Bath Saturday to watch the christening and launch of Virginia, a reconstruction of the first English-built oceangoing ship built in the Americas.
The Popham colonists who built the ship may have worked faster, but they abandoned New England after only 14 months, taking the history of the ship with them.
Lincoln County has a rich history of shipbuilding with its miles of coastline, good harbors, forests of white pine.