THE LARGEST BATTLESHIP.
In a torrent of rain the largest battleship now afloat, the Mikasal was launched on November Bth, from Vickers, Sons, and Maxim’s shipbuilding yard, Barrow. Tho Mdiasa belongs to the Japanese Government, and the ceremony of christening and launching was performed by Baroness Hayashi, who pulled the lever, freeing the huge ship, and then threw a bottle of wine at her bows, at the same time pronouncing the word “Mikasa.” Amid loud cheers the battleship glided gracefully into the water, and as she was passing down a huge Japanese paper cage hanging from her bows was opened, and liberated a number of pigeons. The Mikasa is 405 feet long between the perpendiculars, her beam is 76ft, and her displacement is about 15,150 tons. ’The engines will develop 15,000 horse-power, calculated to obtain her a speed of 18 knots.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 January 1901, Page 3
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141THE LARGEST BATTLESHIP. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 January 1901, Page 3
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