Word: popham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert G. Popham...
...Photography Board: Lisa W. Clark '89 of Stoughton Hall and Belmont; David K. Eldan '89 of Wigglesworth and Culver City, Calif.; Frederick J. Nager '89 of Holworthy Hall and Tai-Pei, Taiwan; Hector I. Osorio '89 of Weld Hall and Queens, N.Y.; Robert G. Popham '88 of Lowell House and Ellicott City, Md.; Andrea L. Roberts '88 of Winthrop House and Newton; Adam Ruderman '87 of Dudley House and New York, N.Y.; J. Carter Vincent '89 of Wigglesworth Hall and Newton...
Every morning deckhands check the barges for leaks. It takes Phil Popham. 23, about 30 minutes to inspect the 15 barges hooked up to the Cooperative Vanguard. He moves gingerly across each slippery deck, shovels snow from the manhole covers that conceal the eleven-foot-deep buoyancy compartments, and peers inside with his flashlight for telltale ice or water. He passes the rest of the day reading dog-eared copies of Playboy, Popular Mechanics and western novels by Louis L'Amour...
Founded in 1884 on the Kennebec River, a dozen miles from Popham, where in 1607 the first ship was built by European settlers in the New World, the Iron Works constructed steamers, tugs, trawlers, J.P. Morgan's famous yacht (the one no one could afford if he had to ask how much it cost) and destroyers for the Navy in both world wars. From Pearl Harbor to V-J day, BIW turned out 82 destroyers, vs. 63 for Japan's entire shipbuilding industry. Only eight vessels were lost in combat, and among Navy men "Bath-built" came...