https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/048507https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/048507.jpgChristening and Launch of U.S.S. West Virginia1921/11/19Counties--Mercer.Battleships.Portraits, Group.Miss Alice Wright-Mann, third from left holding a large bouquet and bottle, poses with a group on the battleship. The rest of the subjects are unidentified.Alice Wright-Mann, of Mercer County, 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.USS West Virginia West Virginia History OnView