BATH — The Board of Directors of Maine’s First Ship has unanimously accepted Bridgit Healy, Jeremy Blaiklock and Rick Stevenson as its newest board members.

Healy is a resident of Freeport and a former member of the Mid Coast Hospital Board of Directors. Blaiklock owns a landscaping business in his hometown of Arrowsic and has been an active volunteer at the shipbuilding site the past two summers. Stevenson is the co-owner of Modern Pest Control and an experienced yachtsman who currently serves as president of the Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Association.

Maine’s First Ship is a nonprofit organization with a goal of creating a reconstruction of the 17th century pinnace Virginia, which was the first ship built by the English in the new world. The Virginia was built in 1607 at the Popham Colony in presentday Phippsburg. Currently, the ship is being built adjacent to the Bath Freight Shed on the Kennebec River in Bath. The freight shed itself is being refurbished as a historical building, the last of its kind on any of Maine’s rivers.

For more information on the Virginia, visit www.mfship.org, or follow freight shed updates at www.facebook.com/ bathfreightshed.