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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Announcement from Washington on Feb. 24 of the upcoming launch of a Ship of the Line at the Navy Yard, scheduled for Saturday or Monday next depending on weather and tide, with safety precautions including admission cards and signals like hoisted colors and fired guns.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the announcement about the ship launch across pages 2 and 3; the second component was originally labeled as notice but is part of the same news item.
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We are authorized to state, that the Ship of the Line, now building at the Navy Yard here, will be prepared to Launch on Saturday or Monday next, as the weather and tide may suit.
The situation of the open grounds below the Navy Yard affording many more commodious sites for viewing the launch than any part within the walls of the yard, it is deemed necessary and proper, in order to avoid severe accidents, by admitting too numerous an assemblage of persons in the yard, and, of course, for the general safety of those present, that no persons should be permitted to pass within the gate without having and producing a card of admission.
To prevent disappointment, on the mor-
Being intended for launching, the colors of the yard and of the ship will be hoisted at sun-rise; and five guns fired, in quick succession, at least two hours previous to the time of the ship's going off the stocks.
[National Intelligencer.]
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Primary Location
Washington
Event Date
Saturday Or Monday Next
Event Details
The Ship of the Line building at the Navy Yard will launch on Saturday or Monday next as weather and tide suit. To avoid accidents from crowds, admission cards required inside yard; viewing recommended from open grounds below. Colors hoisted at sunrise, five guns fired two hours before launch.