Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-16 | Page 9 | Will be No More Big Launchings

WILL BE NO MORE BIG LAUNCHING Paris. Dec. 1C. To tho regret of ninny who enjoyed tho spectacular sight, M. Delcasse. minister of marine, ma-rine, hnB decreed that In tho future French warships shall not be launched launch-ed in tho old fashioned way with a plunge Into the waters They will be built In dry docks and thcro await tho waters that will float thorn out. This decision Is duo to tho mishap which attended the launching of the Danton In 1910. The battleship refused re-fused to move down the ways though the most powerful screw jacks were used. It was necessary to delay the ceremony for two months, when the spring tide came to the holp of tho builders. M. Dolcasso has ordered the construction con-struction of two huge dry docks, one at Brest and tho other at 1'Orlent, capable ca-pable of accommodating rosscls of the Dreadnaught type. The Idea Is not altogether new, as tho Japanese have constructed ships In dry dock.