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16 M A R fF oN UE R ey I oe MISS MARY NAIN MICKEY. a ship gets beyond ooach of the launching stand even when suff- cient notification is given to the spon- sor will appreciate this performance On thes part - of Miss Mickey. Gov. Mickey had made his address, President Schram of the Chamber of Commerce. of Seattle had given a certified check for ~S100;000: -- to Moran Bros. Co. as the contribu- tion. of the city of "Seattle to. the ship builders to equalize the differ- ence in cost which exists, owing to freight charges be- tween the building of a ship on the Pacific «coast and the Atlantic coast; Secretary Meikle of the Chamber of Commerce had spoken; Attorney General Prout had said a few words and Congressman Humphrey was in the midst of his address when the Ne pberas ka, as though impatient 'at so much cere- mony, broke her LAUNCH OF BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA It was related in last week's Re- view that the battleship Nebraska would be noted among vessels of the United States navy as the ship that launched herself. Notwith- standing this departure from the accepted program the launch of the Nebraska at the yard of Moran Bros. Co., Seattle, Wash., was suc- cessful in every way. The Ne- braska is the first battleship to be built north of San Francisco on the Pacific coast. and it may be said that the whole state of Wash- ington was intensely interested in the event. The Nebraska was christened by Miss Mary Nain Mickey, daughter of Gov. John H. Mickey of Washington, and it is sufficient evidence of her presence of mind to say that she succeeded in breaking the bottle of cham- pagne and christening the vessel before it got out of her reach. Anyone who knows how quickly way from her fastenings and plunged into the water. At this supreme moment a perfect bedlam of noise was made by the thousands upon thousands of persons assembled, assisted by craft of all kinds in the harbor. Needless to say everyone breathed a sigh of relief when it was learned that the ship entered her native element without injuring herself or anyone else. At the time of launching, the percentage of completion of all work pertaining to the hull, ordnance, and equipment was 59.4 per cent; the machinery on the same date was 79 per cent completed. All structural work below the protected deck, and practically all structural work to the upper deck, was completed and riveted. About two-thirds of the stanchions were in place. Most of the watertight doors were fitted in place. All manholes in the inner bottom were fitted and bolted down during the launching. All sea-connections were completed. The rudder was in place and held rigidly amid- ships with clamp timbers. Both tail-shaft and the propeller hubs were in place. The main drain was completed, the secondary drains nearly completed. All air ports were fitted in place. Bulkhead armor of casemate, tubes and _ barbette armor for 8-in. broadside turrets, conning-tower tube, sfgnal tube, splinter-bulkheads, and gun protection were in place and practically completed. All teak backing was fitted. All compartments adjacent to shell plating had been tested, and the entire testing of the watertightness of the ship was over one-half com- Go pleted. The boil- ers and _ uptakes were _ installed complete. The electric gen- erators, air-pumps, circulating pumps, condensers, feed- pumps, blowers, anchor windlass, ice-machine an d work shop ma- chinery stalled. The weight of the.. ship 'at 'the launching was 6,- 550: tons,- as fol- lows: hull, 4,629 tons ; armor," 305 tons; splinter bulkheads, 83 tons; protective deck, nickel steel, 242. tons: woods backing and gun foundations, 143 tons; < paint: "and cement, 66. tons: auxiliaries, 29° tons; ~~ piping, valves, and hull fittings, I10 tons; equipment (elec- tric), 53 tons; ma- chinery were in- weights, 805 tons; miscel- laneous and_ for- eign weights, 85 tons; total, 6,550 tons. The building slip was perpendic- VIEW OF THE BATTLESHIP FROM THE LAUNCHING STAND. ular to the shore