I lived for a portion of my childhood in Bath, Maine. There are many notable things about this small city on the Kennebec River, but is perhaps best known for its ships. In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was full of shipyards that built all kinds of wooden sailing vessels. Now it has just one shipyard, Bath Iron Works, which is a huge facility that builds destroyers and frigates for the US Navy. Much of the work is done outside, and it was great fun to watch the pieces of the ship come together like a giant puzzle. Thousands of people work at Bath Iron Works in three shifts around the clock. In fact, after the state government BIW is the largest employer in the state of Maine. The difference from the state offices is that almost all the BIW employees work in Bath, and there is really on…