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century, are cased in a small wooden presentation box with sometimes the top is hinged or it can also be a sliding panel. There typically is a small engraved plaque, often silver, with the ship's, shipyard's, and sponsor's names along with the christening date affixed to the box's top. Yes, sometimes the bottle has been mounted on a plaque but either these don't survive or simply are extremely rare. The bottle wrapping can be "yarn" (more like twine) or wire, but will more likely be interwoven red, white, and blue ribbon strips or even an elaborate metal shell, often with pierced decorations like stars, and a screw bottom to allow the champagne bottle to be inserted. These metal bottle sleeves often have a small engraved plaque repeating the information on the box's plaque. Modern warships, at least in the U.S., are often assembled in drydocks usually from sections built elsewhere at the shipyard and moved into position by overhead cranes. The "launch" involves nothing more than flooding the drydock when the ship's hull is completed with a separate christening ceremony held at some later date - the main exception are the
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