ARIZONA launch (LOC)
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ARIZONA launch
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19351
Call Number: LC-B2- 3520-3
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Kilted Cowboy (3 weeks ago | reply)
She was launched on 19 June 1915, making it about fifteen months from keel-laying to launch. In the meantime, the ship was named after the newest state in the union The New York Times estimated that 75,000 people attended the launch, including John Purroy Mitchel, the Mayor of New York City, George W. P. Hunt, the governor of Arizona, and many high-ranking military officials. Several warships were also nearby, including many of the new dreadnoughts which had already entered service (Florida, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, New York, and Texas). Esther Ross, the daughter of an Arizona pioneer family, was given the honors of ship sponsor and christening. To acknowledge a ban on alcohol recently passed by the state legislature, the state's governor decided that two bottles would be used: one full of sparkling wine from Ohio, and another filled with water from the Roosevelt Dam.
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Wystan (2 weeks ago | reply)
William Jennings Bryan and wife in New York City on June 19, en route to the USS ARIZONA launching:
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, with commodores and admirals, at the launch:
The ceremony:
SPLASH!:
Governor Hunt of Arizona looks happy:
Okay, it didn't sink -- what do we do next?
Esther Ross, descendant of Arizona pioneers, christened the ship:
Here is a formal portrait of Esther Ross, taken before the ceremony:
"Look -- We didn't even get wet!"
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (2 weeks ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)