Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-11
NORTH DAKOTA
 BATTLESH|P IS
 IN THE WATER
Great Fighter of United States Navy Is Launched and ChriStened In Presence of Distinguished Guests

QUINCY Mass, Nov. 10.-Into the
 waters of the Fore river, on whose shores several of the finest ships of the new navy" have been built, there | was launched the great steel hulk | of what will be the formidable battle
 ship. North Dakota The occasion was
 notable one. as the North Dakota is i the first United States 20,e0o-ton all big-gun battleship of tBe Dreadnaught type. Built by the Fore River Ship
 building Company, tre big vesel is SO per cent completed, end will be turned over to the government in less than
 year. The keel for the North Dako-
 ta was laid December IS, last, the date of the sailing of the Atlantic fleet on its globe ctrciing tour and
 in her construction all time records | for the building of American naval
 vessels have been broken.
 Named By North Dakota Girl. Shortly after the hour set for the ! launching, while the wedges were be- | ing driven in to lift the height from the ground to the sliding ways, the ! naming party, led by Rear Admiral Bowles, president of the shipbuilding
 company, made it's way through the crowd and ascended the launching stand. The sponsor, Miss Mary Den ton, daughter of Col. John D. Denton, received an ovation, as did also Gov-S ernor John D. Burke, and other mem bers of the North Dakota party. The launching of the big vessel was entirely successful, and was witnessed by an immense crowd When wore was given, and the great mass q steel began to move majestically dowI the greased ways for the initial plunge into its native element, Miss Denton dashed against the prov of a bottle of wine decorated with the national col ors. As she did so she exclaimed in firm tones:
 T christen thee North Dakota,'' A great wave of enthusiasm swept over the crowd of spectators as the christening ceremony was performed. Down In the crowd and up on Ine stand, men and women waved hats and handkerchiefs. while thousands of throats joined in the wild cheering which greeted the new queen of the seas. ShrilI whistle blasts from the nearby factories and the fleet of tug
 boats assembled in the river joined in the chorus, and almost drowned the notes of the national anthem, yalient- ly played by the band.
 A Magnificent RattIeship. The North Dakota Is sister ship l of the Delaware, which is under con struction at Newport News. Tne ini- tial outlay for the huge battleship was $10,000,000. Her guns alone will cost about million. She will have a long forecastle deck, extending from the bow almost to the center of the ship.
 The ten twelye-iDch guns will be ar
 ranged in five turrets, two to a tur- ret, the forward turret being so iocat-
 ed that the axes of it's guns will be
 twenty y-four feet above the water line,
 and just above this turret will be an-
 other, the barbette of which will be
 of sufficient height tor its guns to clear
 the roof of the forward turret.
 Abaft the break cf the forecastIe
 deck, and also situated on the axis of
 the ship will be two more twelve
 inch gun turrets, the guns of the for
 ward turret in this pair firing over the
 roof of the after turret Abaft ana
 near the stern will be the fifth ana
 last of the big turrets Naval men
 declare that no navy in the world pos
 sesses ship of the Dreadnaught type
 in which the guns are better arrang-
 ed.