https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/048506https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/048506.jpgMiss Alice Wright-Mann at Christening and Launch of the U.S.S. West Virginia1921/11/19Portraits--W.Counties--Mercer.Battleships.Alice Wright-Mann, of Mercer County, is pictured with a large bouquet of flowers and what appears to be a bottle of champagne.Ms. Wright-Mann sponsored the battleship which was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. of Newport News, Va. Wright-Mann was the daughter of a millionaire coalmine operator, Isaac T. Mann.West Virginia History OnViewUSS West Virginia