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	USS Alabama (BB-8)
		Finally, on 27 January, the battleship headed south for winter exercises with the Fleet at the drill grounds in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida.
		Though she remained inactive at New York, the battleship was not decommissioned until 17 August 1909.
		In mid-March, the battleship moved south to the lower reaches of the Chesapeake Bay and began transforming landsmen into sailors.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Alabama_(BB-8).html (1276 words)

	BB-7 Illinois
		Illinois (BB-7) was laid down 10 February 1897 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., launched 4 October 1898; sponsored by Miss Nancy Leiter; and commissioned 16 September 1901, Captain G. Converse in command.
		Illinois carried out training and ceremonial duties until 14 July 1902, when she grounded In the harbor of Christiana, Norway, and had to return to England for repairs.
		Illinois was detached from the European Squadron 10 January 1903 and assigned to the North Atlantic.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/bb-7.htm (554 words)


		Illinois became a State in 1818 and an Illinois Quarter was issued in 2003.
		The 2nd USS Illinois (BB-7), lead ship of her class of battleship, served for over half a century and was eventually renamed Prairie State.
		Illinois does not have any VOLCANOES now, but there is evidence of volcanoes existing in the state 500 million years ago.
	www.geocities.com /statesaz3/Illinois.html (1882 words)

	USN Ships--USS Alabama (Battleship # 8)
		USS Alabama, a 11,565-ton Illinois class battleship, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		The battleship was often in reserve over the next five years, but undertook occasional training cruises in the western Atlantic.
		In September 1921 the now-obsolete battleship was transferred to the War Department for use as an aerial bombing target.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/bb8.htm (746 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Initially the battleship will be moored on Ford Island at Foxtrot Pier, which was specifically built in 1990 for the battleship before plans to moor the ship here were scuttled.
		The keel for the 58,000-ton Iowa class battleship was laid in 1941 and the ship was launched three years later.
		Battleships were once considered the stars of the Navy's fleet, able to fling shells weighing up to 2,700 pounds more than 25 miles from their huge, 16-inch guns.
	starbulletin.com /96/08/22/news/story1.html (831 words)

	Warships - Battleships - Projected
		The 'H' class battleships were a part of Germany's "Z" plan, the German Navy's master plan to build a balanced fleet to challenge allied supremacy at sea.
		Presumably, the 'H' class also preserved the greatest advantages of the previous classes: the minute internal subdivision which made them so difficult to sink, excellent fire control, a steady gun platform (likely, given the beam of these ships), and excellent anti-torpedo protection.
		Unlike their immediate predecessors, the Iowa class, which were designed as escorts for the American fast carrier task forces (and which you can read about in my "Basic Characteristics Of The Post Treaty Battleships" essay), the Montanas were designed to slug it out with the best in the world.
	www.chuckhawks.com /super_battleships_projected.htm (3026 words)

	Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
		Contrary to the belief of many modern critics, the actual historical events and details are impossible to determine beyond a reasonable doubt, but "there is no dispute on the main events, and their sequence."(2) However, although Hough and Eisenstein differ, they both offer legitimate perspectives.
		One of the major differences between The Battleship Potemkin, and Hough's account is the amount of time related by each.
		To end the story with the sailor's surrender to the Romanians would have indicated failure, to continue the story through the revolution of 1917 would have made for too long a movie, but to end the movie with the morale building victory over the fleet created the right feel for Eisenstein.
	www.carleton.edu /curricular/MEDA/classes/media110/Severson/essay.htm (1742 words)

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		In March 1896, three months before congressional authorizations for the class, a special board was appointed by the Secretary for the Navy to examine the best plan for installing the main armament and other design features of battleships to be authorized that year.
		class were stripped of six 6-inch guns and all of their 3-inch guns to provide ordnance for new construction.
		In checking barrel placement in photographs of the class, it appears that the barrels in the forward casemate rested low in the positions, while the barrels in the amidships positions rested in a centered position.
	www.steelnavy.com /ISWIllinois.htm (5373 words)

	Dreadnought
		Only 3 of the American and only 2 of the Japanese battleships would be finished, many old ships would be scrapped by Britain and the United States, and Britain would be allowed to build 2 new battleships to make up for the age of her remaining ships.
		Battleships missed their chance for many surface actions because they were being held back for the more "serious" fleet actions that never occurred.
		Of the earlier class of ships, the France had been lost in 1922, the Courbet and Paris escaped to Britain in 1940, and the Jean Bart, renamed Océan, was scuttled in Toulon in 1942 when the Germans moved to occupy all of France.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8819 words)

	Battleship USS Washington BB56 - Shipmates
		His remembered experiences: the accentuate of the Iowa class battleship of their painted patinas of antiquity-so striving to quell the envy of the North Carolina class battleships, battleships North Carolina and battleship Washington.
		Battleship Indiana collided with battleship Washington at the Marshall Island Crusade.
		In another dry dock was battleship Nevada, the Nevada of Pearl Harbor vintage.
	www.usswashington.com /profil22.htm (681 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (1-A)
		The 149th Illinois Infantry Regiment was organised at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in for one year in February 1865.
		The 36th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an American infantry regiment organised at Camp Hammond, near Aurora, Illinois, by Colonel N. Greusel, and was mustered into the service by Colonel Brackett, U.S. Mustering Officer, September 23, 1861, for a term of three years, or during the war.
		The 7th Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry were the first Illinois infantry regiment mustered for the civil war and numbered seven because Illinois sent six regiments to the Mexican war.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F1.HTM (8589 words)

	21st CENTURY BATTLESHIPS (BBG-21s) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Battleships are designed to survive 15" and 16" shells, which are literally 1000 to 2000 pound penetrating warheads, and many better ships also have excellent torpedo belts.
		Battleships are the only vessels that could actually survive the kinds of threats that are likely to appear in littoral areas once they get within gun range of their targets.
		With no battleships available the USN was forced to shift their emphasis to the aircraft carrier as the center of a striking force, though they still continued to build a new generation of battleships.
	www.combatreform.com /battleships.htm (16534 words)

	History
		USS Missouri is an Iowa-class battleship; the youngest of four sisters that were built and launched.
		Two other Iowa-class battleships were originally ordered; and construction was started, but both were cancelled and scrapped before they were ever launched.
		The Iowa-class battleships were the fastest battleships ever built; capable of sustained speeds in excess of 33 knots.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /schorr/Politics/History.htm (1061 words)

	The world's top uss iowa bb 61 websites
		USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 29th state.
		She got underway on 27 August for Argentia, Newfoundland to neutralize the threat of German battleship Tirpitz which was reportedly operating in Norwegian waters.
		As flagship of Battleship Division 7, Iowa departed the United States 2 January 1944 for the Pacific Theatre and her combat debut in the campaign for the Marshall Islands.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/uss_iowa__bb_61_ (1814 words)

	Battleships of the United States Navy - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rate the various battleships of the United States Navy that were listed under the BB designation.
		There were some other battleships commissioned in the navy that did not have the BB number because they had been decommisioned before the numbering was adopted or were WWI war prizes.
		Battleships were a thing of the past when the 49th and 50th states were admitted into the Union.
	www.rateitall.com /t-19936-battleships-of-the-united-states-navy.aspx (354 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		The Gato class was the standard design for American fleet submarines at the beginning of the war.
		The Gato class and its successor, the Balao class, bore the brunt of the fighting against Japan during the war.
		Gato class submarines were successful boats that proved to be fast, strong, well armed, and suited to the long range patrols necessary to fight in the Pacific.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/drum.htm (551 words)

	Pre-Dreadnought Medium Armament
		Parkes writes that the torpedo menace loomed very large in battleship design by the mid-1880s, and that the development of larger quick-firers was seen as a necessary counter to it.
		Subsequently he reiterates this point in saying of British battleship armament in 1893-1904 that "the secondary battery, usually twelve 6in, was intended to attack the unarmoured portion of enemy ships; 12pdrs and smaller were mounted to protect against torpedo boats.
		The trend toward intermediate battleship guns, begun in the United States and Italy, was copied in several navies besides the British.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/pdredmdg.htm (2305 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The Iowa class were as fast as cruisers, in order to be able to run down the Japanese Kongo-class battlecruisers.
		In the 1980s all four were modernized with missiles and electronic warfare gear and re-joined the fleet, with New Jersey shelling Lebanon in 1983 and two of her sisters bombarding Iraq in 1991, the last time a battleship would ever fire her guns in earnest.
		Two additional Iowa-class ships, Illinois and Kentucky, were begun in 1942 but neither was completed, despite some outlandish plans to complete Kentucky as a missile ship during the Cold War.
	www.avalanchepress.com /prop_leyteUSBattleships.php (761 words)

	BB-61 Iowa class
		The first vessel was commisioned in 1943; the entire class arrived early enough to see service in the war, forming the most potent anti-aircraft platform in the fleet.
		With the post-cold war arms reduction, the battleships were doomed to finally leave the fleet; Missouri became a floating memorial next to Arizona at Pearl Harbor; New Jersey is bound to be a memorial in her state.
		But Congress refused to take the battleship out of the fleet for good: it passed legislation demanding that under full mobilization, two battleships would yet be available.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/battleships/iowa.htm (844 words)

	BB-65 Illinois
		The keel of Illinois (BB-65), an Iowa-class battleship, was laid at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, on January 15, 1945.
		Construction was canceled on August 12, 1945 when the battleship was about 22 percent complete.
		Illinoi's incomplete hulk was sold for scrapping in September 1958.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/bb-65.htm (51 words)

	The Magnificent USS Iowa (BB61)
		U.S. Iowa Class Battleships are the ultimate expression of the superheavy dreadnought that were actually constructed and deployed in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War.
		The Iowa class is a design of compromises but the balance over all makes for the fastest and arguably* the most powerful Battleship class ever to roam the high seas.
		I would use the Des Moines class heavy cruisers as escorts for the Iowas, though using the Alaska class large Cruisers is appealing.
	www.polaris.net /~wright/iowapage.html (801 words)

	BB-61 IOWA-class - Navy Ships
		Battleships were tasked to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea, worldwide, in support of national interests.
		It was removed from the Register in January 1995 as part of a Navy decision to remove the four Iowa class battleships built for the Navy during World War II.
		The Navy planned to keep the battleships on the register until its naval surface fire support gun and missile development programs achieve operational capability, which was estimated to occur between fiscal year 2003 and 2008.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/bb-61.htm (1450 words)

	IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIP
		Launched the 27.8.1942 near the Arsenal of New York, it was before a class of battleships from 57.000 tonn.
		It was army, like the other binoculars, with 9 guns from 406/50 in three triple towers, 20 guns from 127/38, 64 machine-gunner from 40/56 and 49 from 20 milimeter.
		In three tables: slowly of construction, sight of flank, seen from the advanced high and all bridges.
	www.taubmansonline.com /ANBIOWA.htm (109 words)

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		Another Class of Battleships was proposed during WW II — The Montana Class
		The Montana Class would be 50% larger than the Iowa Class of Battleships.
		In their day the battleship was indeed a very powerful ship., which I was a part of in my early career.
	www.angelfire.com /cantina/que_pasa/Iowa_Class.html (251 words)

	History Channel Classroom
		Her story is told from its construction as an Essex class carrier to its battle history in the Pacific and quiet retirement as a maritime museum on the New York waterfront.
		From the bloody hand-to-hand combat of early ocean battles to the thundering broadsides of 18th-century schooners to the armored battleships and naval fighter jets of modern times, naval warfare has pushed the limits of technology and captivated the imaginations of millions.
		The memorial straddles the sunken hull of the battleship USS Arizona and commemorates the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.history.com /classroom/classcal/descript.html (5448 words)

	US NAVY - Battleships
		Battleships - BB Battleships were tasked to conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea, worldwide, in support of national interests.
		In areas of reduced anti-air warfare threat, they were capable of surface action group and battle group operations, centered on the battleships, with appropriate anti-submarine and anti-air warfare escort ships.
		Click here to read more about this class.
	navysite.de /bb/index.html (72 words)

	Iowa class battleship - Dreadnought... An end of an era...
		The Iowa Class Battleship's Guns were composed of nine 16-inch guns in three turrets, two on the bow and one on the stern.
		The Iowa Class battlewagons had 16 inch guns, which the New Jersey, Missouri, Wisconsin are of this class.
		Four battleships of the Iowa-class battleships (BB-61 through BB-64) were built in the early 1940s in the United States.
	www.angelfire.com /cantina/que_pasa/Dreadnaught.html (508 words)

	US Navy Battleships
		American battleships were almost always named after states.
		The Lexington class were given the names of famous American ships of the past.
		New battleship construction (including the South Dakota (BB-49) class battleships the Lexington (CC-1) class battlecruisers, and the battleship Washington (BB-47)) stopped, many old battleships scrapped.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/BBtable.html (1197 words)

	Skippers
		The commissioning Captain of the K.D. BAILEY (DD-713), Gilbert Haven Richards, Jr., (5/29/11-3/11/83) was born in Waukegan, Illinois to Gilbert Haven Richards and Wilhemina Ferry.
		His leadership qualities were already evident, being commanding officer of the school's ROTC, class vice-president, president of Hi-Y, and a tackle on the football team.
		Before World War II, Captain Richards served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets on the battleship CALIFORNIA, the destroyer AYLWIN, the survey ship HANNIBAL (the last coal burner in the U.S. Navy), and the cruiser TUSCALOOSA (upon which President Roosevelt spent some R and R time).
	members.cox.net /cpopina/skippers.htm (919 words)

	Media Law & Ethics: Class Notes: Section 3: Judicial Review
		Judicial review is the process by which courts may examine legislative and congressional actions (when those actions are challenged) and cases from lower courts (on appeal).
		The battleship Oregon was ordered to Cuban waters from Puget Sound and it had made the long voyage around Cape Horn amid national interest.
		The dissenting justice, John Marshall Harlan, wrote one of the most eloquent statements in the history of the Supreme Court.
	www.class.uh.edu /comm/classes/comm4303/section3/judicialreview.html (5711 words)

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