USS Illinois

USS Illinois

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS "Illinois" in honor of the 21st state.

*USS "Illinois" (1864), was a screw sloop-of-war laid down in 1864, but was never completed and broken up for scrap in 1872

*USS|Illinois|BB-7, was the lead ship of sclass|Illinois|battleship, launched 4 October 1898, renamed "Prairie State" 8 January 1941 and sold for scrap 18 May 1956

*USS|Illinois|BB-65, would have been a "Iowa"-class battleship, if her construction had not been canceled before she was launched.

The replica battleship "Illinois" was a full-scale mockup of an "Indiana-class" battleship, created as an exhibit for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, at Chicago, Illinois.


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