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Photo of the launching of U.S. Battleship NEBRASKA, at the Moran Brothers Shipyard, Seattle, 1904
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| Title | Photo of the launching of U.S. Battleship NEBRASKA, at the Moran Brothers Shipyard, Seattle, 1904 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Notes | In 1900, Seattle's Moran Brothers Company decided to enter the national shipbuilding field by submitting a bid for the building of the first-class battleship NEBRASKA. When the bids were opened, the secretary of the navy announced that all bids were too high. Robert Moran briefed the Seattle Times and the Post-Intelligencer, and a whirlwind campaign to raise the $100, 000 was launched the next morning, to compensate Moran Brothers so that the shipyard could lower its bid. Local sponsors contributed the sum, deposited with the Chamber of Commerce, and the building of the first battleship ever launched from a Puget Sound ship yard was underway.Built at a cost of nearly $4 million, the NEBRASKA was the first U.S. battleship built on the Pacific coast north of San Francisco. The ship's construction had employed 500 workers, and signaled Seattle's entry into steel shipbuilding. The NEBRASKA was launched on October 7, 1904 before a huge crowd. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order reproductions or inquire about permissions, contact: president@pugetmaritime.org or call PSMHS Library at 206-324-1125. Please cite the Negative Number. |
| Credit Line | Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | PSMHS Collection is located at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
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