United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Brunswick, 31.14995, -81.491491944-05-25Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, wife of Governor Joseph Melville Broughton of North Carolina, is poised with a bottle of champagne, ready to christen the Donald W. Bain at a ceremonial Liberty ship launching held in the J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard in Brunswick, Georgia. An unidentified woman, clutching a purse, stands behind Mrs. Broughton. Named for former North Carolina treasurer Donald W. Bain (d. 1892), the ship was the forty-first constructed in Brunswick by the J.A. Jones Construction Company. Its keel was laid April 17, 1944. The ship was launched May 25, 1944 and delivered June 17, 1944."41-14"--photograph.Original photograph scanned by the Brunswick-Glynn County Library. Described by the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of Georgia HomePLACE: an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service and GALILEO.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Photograph held by the Special Collections, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, Marshes of Glynn Libraries, J.A. Jones Construction Company collection, Photographs series, Ship launchings subseries, notebook 1, photograph 1-34.J.A. Jones Construction CompanyDonald W. Bain (Ship)Liberty ships--Georgia--BrunswickShips--LaunchingShipbuilding--Georgia--BrunswickShipyards--Georgia--BrunswickRites and ceremonies--Georgia--BrunswickUnited States--Social life and customsChampagne (Wine)Wine bottles--Georgia--BrunswickWorld War, 1939-1945--War workWorld War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American[Photograph of Mrs. J. Melville Broughton christening the Liberty ship Donald W. Bain, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1944 May 25?]Mrs J. Melville Broughton christening the Donald W. BainStillImage