The Illinois class was a group of three United States Navy pre-dreadnought battleships built between 1896 and 1901: Illinois, Alabama and Wisconsin. A 1896 board decided that another low-freeboard coastal design would be imprudent, so the class had better seakeeping than the Indiana and Kearsarge classes, with four 13-inch guns in two twin turrets, a secondary battery of fourteen 6-inch rapid-fire guns and Harvey armor, and they were the last American battleships to use fire-tube boilers. They were rated at 16 knots, driven by coal-fired boilers and triple-expansion steam engines. Three yards shared the work: Newport News Shipbuilding built Illinois, which was laid down there in February 1897, while Cramp of Philadelphia and a San Francisco yard built the other two. The ships served with the North Atlantic Squadron, the Pacific Fleet and the Great White Fleet and were training ships from 1912. Wisconsin was scrapped in 1922, Alabama was expended as a bombing target in 1921, and Illinois, renamed Prairie State, served as a floating armory until she was sold for scrap in 1956.
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The Illinois was a twin-screw, armored, seagoing battleship, and was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, of Newport News, Va.
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three contracts were awarded for the Illinois (later designated BB-7) class battleships, one at Newport News, one by Cramp Shipbuilding (Philadelphia) and one at Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco
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three contracts were awarded for the Illinois (later designated BB-7) class battleships, one at Newport News, one by Cramp Shipbuilding (Philadelphia) and one at Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco
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The Illinois was a twin-screw, armored, seagoing battleship, and was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, of Newport News, Va.
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three contracts were awarded for the Illinois (later designated BB-7) class battleships, one at Newport News, one by Cramp Shipbuilding (Philadelphia) and one at Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco
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three contracts were awarded for the Illinois (later designated BB-7) class battleships, one at Newport News, one by Cramp Shipbuilding (Philadelphia) and one at Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco
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Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, and she was launched in October 1898.
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They were all decommissioned by 1920.
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The Illinois class was a group of three pre-dreadnought battleships of the United States Navy commissioned at the beginning of the 20th century.
Machinery, engines
The ships were powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines rated at 10,000 indicated horsepower (7,500 kW).
Machinery, power
The ships were powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines rated at 10,000 indicated horsepower (7,500 kW).
Machinery, boilers
Steam was provided by eight coal-fired fire-tube boilers that were trunked into a pair of funnels that were arranged side-by-side.
Design, displacement
They displaced 11,565 long tons (11,751 t) as designed and up to 12,250 long tons (12,450 t) at full load.
Machinery, speed
The engines generating a top speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
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