Bath
The City of Ships, on the Kennebec.
- Population
- 8,766 (2020 census)
- Bath Iron Works
- 1884
- Popham Colony
- 1607
- Tides
- Two highs, two lows a day
Then
- 1605
Samuel de Champlain explores the Kennebec, which the Abenaki call Sagadahoc, “mouth of big river.”
- 1607
Popham colonists downriver build the Virginia, the first oceangoing ship built in the New World.
- 1781
Bath incorporates as a town. It becomes a city in 1847.
- 1884
Thomas W. Hyde founds Bath Iron Works, which goes on to build hundreds of Navy ships.
Now
Bath Iron Works, now part of General Dynamics, still builds Navy warships. The Maine Maritime Museum tells the story of the City of Ships.
This stretch runs from Merrymeeting Bay down the Kennebec to Popham and east through the Sasanoa to Wiscasset, Pemaquid and Muscongus Bay.
On the water
From NOAA's predictions for Bath, ME over the next 365 days. Heights are in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW).
- Pattern
- Two highs and two lows a day, close in size
- Typical daily range
- 7.7 ft
- Biggest swing
- 10.3 ft on Dec 25
- Smallest swing
- 5.1 ft on Oct 18
- Highest high
- 8.9 ft, Jul 6 at 1:45 AM
- Lowest low
- −1.5 ft, Jan 23 at 6:39 PM
23 tide stations around Bath
- Bath1.0 mi
- Mill Point, Sasanoa River3.3 mi
- Howard Point, New Meadows River3.4 mi
- Androscoggin River entrance4.3 mi
- Sturgeon Island, Merrymeeting Bay4.9 mi
- Robinhood, Sasanoa River5.9 mi
- Phippsburg6.4 mi
- Brunswick, Androscoggin River7.1 mi
- Cross River entrance7.6 mi
- Back River7.6 mi
Show all 23 stations
- Bowdoinham, Cathance River7.7 mi
- Cundy Harbor, New Meadows River9.2 mi
- Wiscasset9.8 mi
- Fort Popham, Hunniwell Point10.9 mi
- Walpole12.1 mi
- Richmond12.3 mi
- Sheepscot (below rapids)13.9 mi
- Damariscove Harbor, Damariscove Island14.7 mi
- Pemaquid Harbor, Johns Bay14.9 mi
- Newcastle16.5 mi
- New Harbor, Muscongus Bay16.6 mi
- Muscongus Harbor, Muscongus Sound19.2 mi
- Gardiner22.4 mi