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USS ILLINOIS (BB-7) anchored in port while her crewmen load onto boats for liberty. Based on the sailors blue uniforms, this was shot in the winter.
Photographed in 1903.
Library of Congress: LC-D4-21710
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USS ILLINOIS (BB-7) anchored in port while her crewmen load onto boats for liberty. Based on the sailors blue uniforms, this was shot in the winter.
Photographed in 1903.
Library of Congress: LC-D4-21710
Colorized by Irootoko Jr: link
USS Illinois (BB-7) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Illinois class, participated in the Great White Fleet. She ended her career as a barracks ship, broken up 1955.
U.S. Navy Submarine USS Illinois Arrives in Pearl Harbor!
The Pearl Harbor submarine community welcomed the crew and families of the newly commissioned Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) to Hawaii following a home port change from Groton, Connecticut, Nov. 22, 2017
King-Nimitz redesign of the Iowa class for USS ILLINOIS (BB-65) USS KENTUCKY (BB-66). The top image shows how they'd look in the mid to late 1940s and to bottom shows how they might be modernized in the 1980s.
Posted on Deviantart by Tzoli: link, link
USS ILLINOIS (BB-65) at Philadelphia with work going forward very quickly.
"She had been laid down a little over six months and was at this point 15 percent complete. Her starboard boiler in boiler room Number 1 peeks over the top of the transverse bulkhead. Note the overhead crane attached to the starboard boiler in her aft boiler room (Number 4). Closer to the camera, her foresection is being built up, and the triple bottom is visible in varying states of completion. ILLINOIS was the last of the class to be started and would be cancelled five weeks after this picture was taken.
ILLINOIS and her sister, USS KENTUCKY (BB-66), differed from the four completed ships in that their design called for an all welded construction. This would have saved weight and increased strength over a combination riveted/welded hull like was employed on the completed ships. There was thought of redesigning the hull with a 'Montana class (BB-67 / 71)' type protection system for added torpedo protection. This was rejected and the two ships were being built along the regular Iowa class (BB-61 / 66) hull design."
Photographed on July 7, 1945.
Photo and info from Navsource: link
USS ILLINOIS (BB-7) during the Great White Fleet Cruise.
Photographed in 1908.
Eaton Magoon Collection.
Digital Archives of Hawai'i: PP-103-10-018
So I'm watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and you bet your ass I didn't miss the pair of Iowa class battleships in episode 8.
I didn't expect to see a Godzilla vs King Kong reference when the Eva was jumping from ship to ship to keep from sinking, then landing on an Aircraft Carrier.
ETA: this was a joke. I know NGE came out first.
I like how they chose the two unfinished Iowas, ILLINOIS and KENTUCKY, to become submarines go on a suicide mission to destroy the whale angel.
USS ILLINOIS (BB-7) anchored in the Hudson River, during the Fleet Review.
Photographed on October 3, 1911.
NARA: 55171556