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USS Illinois in Dry Dock
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The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Newport News, Virginia, and was one of three 11,565-ton battleships. She was commissioned in September 1901. One of her first assignments was to test the newly-constructed floating dry dock at the Naval Station. Text on photograph reads: "U.S.S. Illinois, in largest floating dry dock in the world, at New Orleans."
1901
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