Portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838). This is the portrait which hung aboard USNS Bowditch T-AGS-21. The photo of the portrait was taken in 1974. USNS Bowditch was named in honor of Nathaniel Bowditch, the author of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, Edmund M. Blunt, 1802.
P. Blain was 3rd Officer aboard USNS Bowditch. This poem appeared in the May 1974 Bowditch cruise book.
Photo c. 1960-61 (no BRN-3 antenna mast, no WPN-3 whip antennas).
Original by Sigbjørn Baumeyer posted to Navsource.
Lifeboat No.1 has been lowered; presumably this picture has been taken from the lifeboat.
Photo courtesy of Chet Headley. Chet comments: this photo was given to me when I went aboard Bowditch in 1966.
At Lisbon in April 1967.
Courtesy of Earl Adams.
At Lisbon c. July-August 1967. These ships didn't look like much from the outside. Come to think of it they didn't look like much from the inside either.
But for an enlisted sailor in the 60s and early 70s, accommodations were luxurious beyond belief!
Courtesy of Earl Adams.
Photo from Sealift Magazine, August 1967.
May 1968.
Courtesy of William "Ace" Hunter.
May 1972.
Taken from the original pasteup for the May-June 1972 Bowditch Cruise Book.
Courtesy of Bob Lord.
c. 1971-72
She even looks racy!
Contributed by Jim Bohnsack.
In the same series, bow down.
Courtesy of Matthew Ekdahl.
Bowditch at the Southampton New Docks. Photo from August 1976. This one is from the shipnostalgia.com website.
Bowditch photo from an undated commercial postcard.
Docked at Rio, undated but probably c. 1986-87. Photo from shipspotting.com website.
