Next message: Joel Wilkins: "TWL: RE: Christening"
At 10:07 AM 09/04/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone have info on christening a boat? Ceremony, what to say, etc.
>I've never been to one and will be having one for Cinderella in
>Baltimore soon. Would appreciate any suggestions and if yoyu're in the
>area and want to attend, let me know. I just hope she makes it, I'm
>watching her progress and the hurricane and pray they don't meet up with
>eachother out in the briny deep!
You can probably get the official US Navy ceremony from the Naval Institute
Press. I have a reference to "Baptism of Ships" by Robert G. Skerrett
published in the US Naval Institute Proceedings.
Of course, the Longfellow poem is always correct:
And see! She stirs!
She starts-she moves- she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms.
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