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Photo # NH 68863:  USS Illinois in the new floating drydock at New Orleans, 6 January 1902

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USS Illinois (Battleship # 7, later BB-7), 1901-1956 --
Part II


This page features selected on board, activities and construction views of USS Illinois (Battleship # 7, later BB-7).

For other images of this ship, see:

  • Illinois (Battleship # 7, later BB-7), 1901-1956. Later renamed Prairie State and designated IX-15.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 53221

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    Ship's officers and crew, circa 1901-1903.
    Her Commanding Officer, Captain George A. Converse, is seated in a chair by the capstain.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-1-8-8

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    View on deck, looking forward from the stern, 1902.
    Note the capstain and open hatches in the foreground, with the ship's after twin 13"/35 gun turret beyond.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 19-N-1-8-26

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    View in a torpedo compartment, showing a trainable torpedo tube and a 18-inch torpedo, 1902.
    Note the overhead rail for moving torpedos from their stowage position to the tube.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 68863

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    In the new floating drydock at New Orleans Naval Station, Louisiana, 6 January 1902.
    The original caption reads: "Illinois was placed in the new New Orleans floating dry dock to test her capabilities (the dry dock's). At two o'clock the huge ship stood high and dry on the keel blocks."

    Courtesy of the David Wightmann Family, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93708-KN (Color)

    USS Illinois (Battleship # 7)

    In the new floating drydock at the New Orleans Naval Station, Louisiana, circa January 1902.
    Hand-tinted postal card, published by J. Scordill, New Orleans.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82376

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    Navy bandsmen on the ship's quarterdeck, during a ceremony in 1904.
    The bandsmen are wearing uniforms with spiked helmets, as are the U.S. Marines on the far side of the deck.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 79492

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    Crewmen drilling with some of the ship's midships 6-pounder guns, prior to World War I.
    Note the boats and oars stowed overhead, and the raised working platforms for the gun crews.
    Copied from the book "The United States Navy Illustrated", published in New York, 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53220

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    Sailor painting one of the battleship's boat cranes, as she is being repainted into wartime grey, circa April 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-1-6-13

    USS Illinois
    (Battleship # 7)

    Fitting out at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, circa 1901, soon after she ran her trials. The number "17.31" painted on her after turret proclaims the speed achieved on the trial run.
    Note the numbers on her hull side, and the broom lashed to her foremast peak.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     


    The following photographs, though identified on their image inscriptions as showing USS Illinois, actually are of her sister ship, USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9). Masts, hull portholes and other details of these ships' configuration differ enough to allow them to be told apart:

    Photo #: NH 105998

    "Great White Fleet" World Cruise
    ,
    December 1907 -- February 1909

    USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9) underway in heavy weather, during 1908-1909.
    Photographed by Brown & Shaffer.
    Note: Though this photograph's inscription identifies this ship as USS Illinois (Battleship # 7) the configuration of masts and porthole spacing shows that she is actually Wisconsin, which joined the fleet after it arrived on the West Coast.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53218

    USS Wisconsin
    (Battleship # 9)

    In a China Sea typhoon during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1908.
    Note: Though the photograph's inscription identifies this ship as USS Illinois (Battleship # 7), the configuration of her masts shows that she is actually Wisconsin.

    Courtesy of DOnald M. McPherson, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    For other images of this ship, see:

  • Illinois (Battleship # 7, later BB-7), 1901-1956. Later renamed Prairie State and designated IX-15.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 8 February 2003
    New images added 2 September 2008