Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-25 | Page 6 | Used a Silver Hatchet

I USED A SILVER HATCHET i 1 WEAPON TO SEVER CABLE HOLD r ING THE NEVADA I Harbor Defense Monitor is Successfully Success-fully Launched at Bath Me and I Christened by Miss Bout lle o I j Bath Me Nov 24rhe Unltell States monitor Nevada In tonnage the largest Government vessel ever built by the Bath Iron works was launched today The proceeding was witnessed by a large number of people the size of the vessel and her unique characterization having attracted wide interest The vessel was released and started down the ways in a novel manner by I Miss Annie C Boutclle youngest daughter of Congressman Charles A I Boutelle who christened her The hull held In place until the last moment bj 1 1a careful adjustment of the shoring and a strong cable was set free by severing the rope at the proper moment mo-ment Miss Boutelle used a silver hatchet provided by the builders As the monitor started down the ways Miss Boutelle clashed a bottle of American I Amer-ican champagne across the how and christened tho vessel Nevada f j The Nevada Is one of four sister ships now under construction In American Amer-ican yards She Is i a single turret monitor mon-itor designed expressly for harbor defense de-fense The dimensions are as follows Length 252 feet beam 50 feet draft 12 feet G Inches displacement 3234 tons Her contract speed is required to be 115 knots Her batteries will consist con-sist of two 12inch breechloading rifles four 4inch rapidfiring guns three sixpounders and four one pounders The Nevada is about 75 per cent completed 0 I