Pre Dreadnought Battleship: Illinois Class

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Pre Dreadnought Battleship: Illinois Class

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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Illinois (BB-7) pictured in floating dry dock at Naval Station New Orleans,Louisiana in 1902.
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Illinois Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Wisconsin pictured under refit,being fitted with a new cage mast at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on June 29th 1909.
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After a two hour 'clean up'....Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Illinois pictured c1918...*Note Sub Chaser 238 off her bow.
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Quarterdeck of Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Illinois in 1902.
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Illinois Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Alabama seen off New York in 1904.
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Illinois pictured c1904.
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Illinois Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Alabama pictured on July 1st 1918.
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These were probably the least combat capable of all the USN pre-dreadnoughts built after the INDIANAs. They retained 4-13" like the INDIANAs, but as they were small and short ranged their usefulness was limited. The class mostly served as training ships or were in reserve. Decidedly a learn from design! :o DFO
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Illinois Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Wisconsin pictured at Puget Sound Navy Yard c1908....She was the third and final member of her Class to be built. Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at the Union Iron Works Shipyards, San Francisco, and she was launched in November 1898. She was commissioned into the fleet in February 1901. She was armed with a main battery of four 13-inch guns and she had a top speed of 16 knots...Wisconsin served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet from her commissioning to 1903; during this period, she made one long distance cruise to American Samoa in late 1901. In 1903, she was transferred to the Asiatic Fleet, where she served as the Northern Squadron flagship. She returned to the United States in late 1906, where she was overhauled extensively. In July 1908, she joined the Great White Fleet for the second leg of its cruise around the world, which lasted until February 1909. The ship remained in service with the Atlantic Fleet until early 1910, when she was reduced to reserve status...The vessel was employed as a Training Ship starting in 1912, primarily for cadets from the US Naval Academy. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Wisconsin's training duties expanded to engine room personnel. She was also assigned to the Coast Battleship Patrol Squadron. She took part in a naval review in December 1918 after the war ended. She served briefly with the fleet in 1919, though by May 1920, she was decommissioned. The old Battleship, thoroughly obsolete by this time, was sold for scrap in January 1922 and broken up.
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Laundry day aboard Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Illinois c1902..Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Shipyards, she was launched in October 1898 and commissioned in September 1901. She was armed with a main battery of four 13-inch guns and she had a top speed of 16 knots. She served with the European Squadron from 1902 to 1903, and with the North Atlantic Fleet until 1907, by which time it had been renamed the Atlantic Fleet. During this time, she accidentally collided with two other Battleships. From December 1907 to February 1909, she circumnavigated the globe with the Great White Fleet. From November 1912, she was used as a Training Ship. She was lent to the state of New York in 1919 for use as a Training Vessel for the New York Naval Militia. She was converted into a Floating Armoury in 1924 as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty, and it was as a Floating Armoury, Barracks and School that she served for the next thirty years. In January 1941 she was reclassified as IX-15 and renamed Prairie State so that her former name could be given to USS Illinois, (BB-65), a new Iowa Class Battleship (never completed). Prairie State was ultimately sold for scrap in 1956.
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