Learn about the lives of sailors who will become a part of our new nation’s defense and what a local seaport was like. The formal navy of the colonies was small, by 1776 there were just 27 colonial warships, but the number of support vessels operating as privateers was over 1600 and became an important factor in our victory. At Bath, you would have seen ropemaking, shipping of vital naval stores, boat work, and spinning and weaving of cloth for sailmaking. Townspeople with their families. Drop by the Tavern for talk of the simmering war and outrage over British impressment of sailors. DNCR America 250^th airstream staff. Munitions demonstrations scheduled throughout the day. St Thomas Church will have a guide. Leviathan and Otter crews will encamp at Bonner’s Point. Children’s games. Talk and book signing by Dr. Benjamin Schaeffer on his book: First Fleets: Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic. Food trucks.