Christening
In preparation for the christening of the Kentucky, the Navy asked Kentucky Governor William O. Bradley to select a member of his family to perform the ceremony. Bradley chose his daughter, Christine, who was attending school in Washington, D. C. The Bradleys as a family were teetotalers, and Governor Bradley sent a bottle of water from Lincoln Spring in Hodgenville, Kentucky for Christine to use during the ceremony. Soon after Ms. Bradley broke the bottle of water over the Kentucky's bow, a delegation from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, led by Frances Beauchamp, presented Christine Bradley with a gift of a silver tray, water pitcher, and two goblets. The inscription read, "Kentucky Christian Temperance Union to Miss Christine Bradley, as a tribute to her loyalty to conviction in the christening of the Battleship Kentucky with water. March 10, 1898."
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