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with her soft Southern voic. and refused

with her soft Southern voice and refused
to answer.
when Secretary Roosevelt gave her
,ne broken bottle In It's net of red, white
anu Duo afterward, she took n happily.
hou can take II back to Tennessee
empty"
me Tennessee Is ga feet long over
al, her extreme beam Is ninety-seyen
Feet live and hree-auarter inches. her
mean draft thirty feet six inches. her
displacement $4,000 tons, her indicated
horsepower $4,000 and her speed TWEEN
y-one Knots. Besides the twelve four
teen inch guns Of her main battery.
.hree to the turret. she will carry four
.een Iive inch, four six FOUNDERS, four
anu-aircraft guns and two torpedo
tupes; Her Keel was laid May IL, 1917,
ana tnough her completion has been de-
layed by urgent war work in the yard
on other ships, II is now expected that
she will break out her commission pen
nant early in 1920.
tomorrow the ways where she was
putt Will be reconstructed for the next
pattleship. No. so, assigned to the New
iork YARD. These ways were designed
several years ago. After the Tennessee
sot started the engineers would report
every once and SO often that the pres
sure on the piling was mounting to the
danger limit. But work was pressed.
emergency measures were taken, and
when she left the ways to-day those
ways were supporting from two to three
times the pressure they had been de-
signed for. For this reason the launch
ing was hurried. No machinery was
aboard and about the ships middle
n fvra haN
Ing for the armor belt which IL yet to
be applied.
Practically Torpedo Proof.
In addition to the remarkable extent
OF this armor belt the Tennessee has
adopted all the lessons Of the war with
regard to subdivisions within the hull
and she will be practically proof against
sinking by torpedo.
She is the nth ship Of her name
In the United States Navy. The nrst
two were originally Confederate vessels
one side wheel steamer and the other
an armored ram. The third was @
friSate OF the line which for many years
was favorite OF the last and most
perfect OF the wooden navy. She served
as flagship both in the Pacific and
Atlantic fleets. The fourth was the
fne cruiser which was wrecked in a
storm In the harbor Of San Domingo
in August. 1915. after a distinguished
career at the head Of the then newly
formed armored cruiser squadron about
which the navy still singa
Those on the launching platform yes.
terday, In addition to the sponsor and
her maid Of honor, Miss Mildred WEIGH
were Assistant Secretary Of the Nav,
Franklin n
j. II. Glennon. commandant OF the Third
Naval District; Rear Admiral John D
Mcdonald. commandant OF the navy
yard; Rear Admiral George e. Burd
Industrial manager Of the yard, under
whose direction the great dreadnough,
was erected: Gov Roberts, Lieut. Gov
Andrew L. Todd OF Tennessee, United
States Senator William NJ Calder, Capt
Arthur Snagge, R N, British Nava
Attache to the United States. and Capt
A. w. Johnson, u. s. N.
More than 1000 employees Of the
navy yard celebrated tho launching last
night with a banquet In the Forty.
seventh Regiment Armory, at Morrissey
avenue and Hayward street. Brooklyn
The Navy Yard Marine Band furnished
music for the feast and Joseph 8. Nc,
Dounagh was POSTMASTER. The guests
included Gov. Roberts Of Tennessee
Franklin d. Roosevelt Assistant Sec
rotary Of the Navy; United Statei
Senator William NJ Calder; william B
Wilson. Secretary of Labor: Rear Ad
miral John C. Mcdonald and Represen
tative James H. Maher. In an address.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that there woult
be no letup in the navy's ship building
programme and that each battleshiI
constructed would be larger and better
than the one which preceded It