Documentary - Military History
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the battleship may have been a welded and bolted together machine, fashioned of steel and iron and brass and a little wood here and there. But it was a living thing. It had lungs, It's boilers. It had a heart. It's pistons. It had blood. It's oil. It had a brain. It's officers and men. It waas a living thing. U S Navy battleship number 39 was conceived, its keel laid that is, on the 16th of March 1914 in the New York Navy Yard. That a mystic would say upon cosmic reflection was only fitting, for it was just scant weeks later, on the 28th of July, that Austria Hungary declared war with Serbia, thus precipitating the first truly global war, the Great War, which would in turn spawn the conflict in which are great ship lost her life. At any rate, the battleships gestation period was a little more than a year. On the 19th of June 1915, she was launched. Now our mystic would also note that the ship's commander in chief of the time of her death, one Franklin D. Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of the Navy, was in attendance, and so is Franklin's boss, Secretary of the Navy Joseph Daniels, who named the shiny gray lady after the newest state in the Union Arizona.