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Show LAUNCHED IWITH RED TAPE. Soma KipentW Experience ClirUten-lug- IlrltUh War Ship. Ship launches in qrcat Britain aro bound up with red tape Two or threo months beforehand the superintendent superin-tendent has to apply tor authority to launch on a day to bo named in the application. When a large ship Is to be launched he Is to be guided by musty mus-ty Instructions, over forty-one years old, as to the orectlon ot bootlm for visitors, tho appropriation ot tickets, and admission of tho public According Accord-ing to the dockyard regulations this expense In the caso ot any one ship is not to exceed 1200. When her majesty launched tbo Centaur, which was to bo renamed Duke ot Connaught, but was finally sent Into tho water as the Royal Arthur, she also named the Royal Sovereign, which was floated out ot dock. Tho bill ot construction tor tho accommodation of 3,000 persons camo to $2,250. Other incidental expenses ex-penses mado the bill $9,600, as against the $200 allowance When the duchess ot York launched tho Prince Georgo at Portsmouth In August, 1895, the admiralty ad-miralty startled tho treasury by requesting re-questing $3,900 for expenses. The treasuryltes got their backs up and said that these functions had reached such a point of extravagance that the? could go no further. |