W.F. Babcock

The W. F. Babcock was a wooden-hulled barge built in 1882 by A. Sewall and Company out of Bath, Maine. In 1917 she was acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War I and operated as a collier on the East Coast between New England and Norfolk, Virginia. At the end of the war she was sold to the company Reinhard and Hall. She appeared on the 20 cent postage stamp in 1923 sailing under the Golden Gate bridge.