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9504 U.S. Battleship "Illinois "
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U.S. BATTLESHIP "ILLINOIS"-
Built at Newport News, Va., by Newport
News S. B. Co.
368 feet long and 72 feet 22 inches wide,
with mean draft of 232 feet-displacement of
11,552 tons.
Cost $2,595,000. Launched Oct. 4, 1898.
Commissioned Sept. 16, 1901.
Complement of 34 officers and 656 men.
Two military masts and 2 funnels abreast.
Main Battery-Four 13-in. B. L. R. in tur-
rets; fourteen 6-in. R. F. in broadside.
two 1-
Secondary Battery-Sixteen 6-lb.,
lb., two 3-in. F., four 3-10 cal. A.; with one
18-in. torpedo tube above water.
BRITTON & REY, LITHOGRAPHERS, S.F.
PUBLISHERS OF PICTORIAL POST CARDS.
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