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		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.
		The 4th USS Illinois (BB-65) would have been an Iowa-class battleship if her construction had not been cancelled before she was launched.
	www.geocities.com /statesaz3/Illinois.html (1944 words)

	USS Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second USS Illinois (BB-7), lead ship of her class of battleship, served for over half a century and was eventually renamed Prairie State.
		The third USS Illinois was a diesel-powered trawler acquired by the Navy, renamed USS Albatross (AM-71), and employed as a minesweeper.
		The fourth USS Illinois (BB-65), would have been a Iowa-class battleship, if her construction had not been cancelled before she was launched.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Illinois (164 words)

	Illinois
		Illinois, the 21st State, was admitted to the Union 3 December 1818, and was named for a French rendition of the Algonquian word "Illini," meaning men or warriors.
		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.history.navy.mil /danfs/i1/illinois.htm (642 words)

	John Hancock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1768, upon arriving from England, his sloop Liberty was impounded by British customs officials for violation of revenue laws.
		They are: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
		USS John Hancock (DD-981), a Spruance class destroyer commissioned 1979
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Hancock (1124 words)

	USS Constitution Museum - FAQs - Engagements and Prizes
		USS Constitution Museum - FAQs - Engagements and Prizes
		USS Constitution was involved in over 30 engagements during her most active sailing days (1798-1855), which included three wars--the Quasi War with France (1798-1801), the Barbary Wars (1801-1805), and the War of 1812; she was never defeated in battle.
		The following is a list of engagements and prizes
	www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org /faq/engage.html (304 words)

	List of museum ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma — Balao-class submarine
		USS Requin — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — 1945-1971 — submarine
		USS Torsk (SS-423) — Baltimore, Maryland — Tench-class submarine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_museum_ships (1820 words)

	Battlebattleship listing of all of USA and list of overnight programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the same year she was commissioned, USS Cairo had the dubious distinction of being the first armored vessel in the history of warfare to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo, today called a mine.
		USS Blueback was the last non-nuclear powered submarine built by the U.S. Navy, and the last to be decommissioned after serving her country for 31 years.
		USS Requin was on her way to the western Pacific under the command of submarine ace Commander Slade Deville Cutter when World War II ended.
	www.bsapackman.com /moore/scoutingresources/themeparks_groupsplaces/battship_listings.cfm (10367 words)

	Ssn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		USS Swordfish Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Swordfish after the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin.
		USS Dallas Two commissioned ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Dallas, the first after Alexander J. Dallas and the second after Dallas, Texas, although two others, never completed, were planned to use the name also.
		USS Cavalla Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Cavalla, after the cavalla, a fish of the pompano family.
	bonose.com /Ssn-128.html (1202 words)

	City Class Ironclads
		In a region where roads were few and poor, and rivers were the preferred mode of transportation, it was cut off from the navy by the confederacy.
		Sailors replaced the soldiers and civilians as crew and the ships took on the USS preface to their names they had not had as army vessels.
		These ships were eclipsed by the later monitors and coastal warships, but for the early war period they carried the flag when no other ships were available and opened the Mississippi for the union.
	www.unionnavy.org /page15.html (701 words)

	Ssn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The fourth Boston was an 18-gun sloop of war commissioned in 1826 and wrecked in the Bahamas in 1846.
		USS Dace Two submarines of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Dace, for any of several small North American fresh-water fishes of the carp family.
		USS Hawaii Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hawaii in honor of the 50th state.
	bonose.com /Ssn-112.html (1071 words)

	Sumter Cabinet Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Renamed ''Sumter'', she was commissioned in the Confederate Navy on 3 June 1861 and broke through the Federal blockade of the Mississippi River mouth late in the month.
		Eluding sloop-of-war USS ''Brooklyn'' in hot pursuit, early in July, the pioneering Confederate Navy commerce raider captured eight U.S. flag merchant ships in waters near Cuba, then moved to the south to Maranhão, Brazil coast where she took another pair.
		While coaling at Martinique in mid-November, she was blockaded by the Federal sloop of war ''Iroquois'', but was able to escape to sea at night and resume her activities.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/173/sumter-cabinet-company.html (1068 words)

	USS Illinois - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Four ships of the United States Navy have been named '''USS ''Illinois''''' in honor of Illinois.
		The second USS* Illinois (BB-7), lead ship of Illinois class battleship of battleship, served for over half a century and was eventually renamed ''Prairie State''.
		The third USS* ''Illinois'' was a diesel-powered trawler acquired by the Navy, renamed USS Albatross (AM-71), and employed as a minesweeper (ship).
	wordsonline.org /USS_Illinois (101 words)

	Whatever Happened?
		USS AMBERJACK (SS-219), was presumed lost on 3-22-43.
		USS SEYMOUR D. Sold to Taiwan on 4-13-71 and was renamed FU YANG (D-962).
		USS BALTIMORE in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
	members.cox.net /cpopina/whathapp.htm (5206 words)

	Joseph Cox
		I was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois, where they had a tremendous Naval training station, and I was there for about 10 weeks.
		At her launching ceremonies on 21 January 1943, the USS YORKTOWN slid down the ways seven minutes ahead of schedule, before her christening ceremonies had been completed, although her sponsor, Mrs.
		The first was a 16-gun sloop of war of 566 tons built at Gosport Navy Yard, and launched in 1839.
	connections.smsd.org /veterans/joseph_cox.htm (3954 words)

	USS Illinois - TheBestLinks.com - Battleship, United States Navy, Lead ship, USS Illinois (BB-7), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		USS Illinois - TheBestLinks.com - Battleship, United States Navy, Lead ship, USS Illinois (BB-7),...
		USS Illinois, Battleship, Illinois, United States Navy, Lead ship, USS Illinois...
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /USS_Illinois.html (214 words)

	USS Vandalia
		During the sloop's period in ordinary which lasted until 1849, she was lengthened by 13 feet in 1848.
		The renovated Vandalia was re-commissioned on 9 August 1849 and joined the Pacific Squadron on 5 September 1849 as that organization was expanding to service the territory which the United States had recently acquired on the Pacific coast.
		She remained at Tybee until April 1862, at which time she was ordered to proceed to the blockade at Wassaw Sound, Ga. The sloop returned to Port Royal, S.C., in June and took up blockade duty off Charleston in July.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/vandalia_sow.html (1008 words)

	James Mcleod
		Acting as gun captain of the rifled howitzer aft which was much exposed, he served this piece with great ability and activity, although no officer superintended it.
		His receipt of the Medal of Honor has been listed in various sites: The Illinois Saint Andrew Society has his MOH details listed - in their "Famous, Infamous and Not-So-Famous Scottish- Americans", First Men from Maine to receive the Medal of Honor.
		On the 26th of April, 1862, a boat manned by a few marines under command of a lieutenant, put off from the war sloop Pensacola that was anchored in the harbour of New Orleans.
	www.dimacleod.co.uk /history/jamesmcleod.htm (1331 words)

	West Sea Co. NAVY, USLHS, USLSS & MILITARY Catalog Page 5
		USS CALIFORNIA" with the penned presentation in the artist's own hand reading: "To LtComman A.A. Hopkins, whose quiet cooperation is an inspiration to all whom he contacts.
		U.S.S. was one of a handful of lighter-than-air-craft commissioned in the U.S. Navy and certainly the most famous.
		U.S.S. This pleasing period photograph is colorfully hand painted in watercolor and gouache depicting the sailor in the early style dress blue jumper uniform with characteristic flat hat and lanyard.
	www.westsea.com /tsg3/catlocker/cat05chart.htm (8811 words)

	navychronology1861b
		23 USS Release and Yankee engaged Confederate batteries at the mouth of Potomac Creek, Virginia.
		Though the battle was inconclusive, Captain Levin M. Powell of USS Potomac noted one result that could be bothersome to Union naval forces: "The caliber and long range of the rifled cannon [of Florida].
		His sloops of war and large steamers can come up Broad River to Mackay's Point, the mouth of the Pocotaligo, and his gunboats can ascend some distance up the Coosawhatchie and Tulifinny.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1861b.html (7782 words)

	Authenticity in a Digital Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Harbor is marked instead by the sturdy masts and graceful spars of the USS Constellation, a historic wooden-hulled naval vessel permanently moored there.
		Investigators from the Navy discovered that the supposed Revolutionary War-era frigate in Baltimore Harbor was actually a Civil War era sloop that had been built in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1854.
		It was, for example, the last and largest all sail-powered sloop commissioned by the U.S. Navy, and while it did not engage in a famous sea battle, as did its predecessor, it did work to interdict the slave trade during the mid-1800s.
	www.clir.org /pubs/reports/pub92/hirtle.html (6192 words)

	Sailing into Seattle's history: Scholar to raise up ship's crew
		For Lorraine McConaghy, it all started when she saw the first image ever of Seattle, a sketch drawn by a 21-year-old lieutenant 150 years ago aboard the first U.S. Navy warship to ply the waters of Puget Sound.
		Seattle's is more than a story of the pioneer families from Illinois who were the first white people to settle here.
		It is also a chronicle of the people of diverse races and languages who helped create and build the city from the start, she said.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/230158_decatur27.html (1227 words)

	The Dolphin - News - 12/19/2002 - 2002: Memories and milestones, the year in review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Maxwell, who served on board USS Providence during its seven-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, was killed in an automobile accident on Feb. 1.
		Jun. 28 - The experimental submarine, USS X-1 was dedicated as the newest major exhibit at the Submarine Force Library and Museum.
		Sept. 29 - USS San Jaun's (SSN 751) ET3 (SS) Sean L. Winser was the first person to qualify in submarines during the San Juan's Mediterranean deployment.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=6429012&BRD=1659&PAG=461&dept_id=8103&rfi=6 (4958 words)

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		The survivors were rescued and taken to Vigo, Spain 1940 - Destroyers USS Offa & Oribi laid down 1940 - At 0705 hours, the neutral Arendskerk was spotted by U-44 about 100 miles SW of Ouessant and tried to escape when the U-boat was sighted.
		Four crewmembers were picked up by destroyers USS Ericsson & USS Stockton and landed at Argentia, Newfoundland 1942 - At 2317, tanker Diala was torpedoed & damaged by U-553 about 300 miles ESE of Cape Race in 44°50N/46°50W (grid BC 8524).
		The vessel was proceeding at maximum speed (12 knots) after the convoy ON-52 was dispersed on 11 January.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/january/15Jan.txt (1309 words)

	navychronology1861
		This far-sighted action on the part of Craven, who distinguished himself throughout the war, enabled the Union to retain the vital Key West posts, the importance of which, Craven noted can not be overestimated, commanding as they do the commerce of the Gulf of Mexico.
		They seem to forget so far as their rights and international interests are concerned we have only to blockade the ports of entry- from the Chesapeake to Galveston- any venture into any other harbors or inlets of any kind is liable to capture as a smuggler.
		USS Resolute, Acting Master W. Budd, burned a Confederate supply depot on Virginia shore of the Potomac River.
	www.usnlp.org /navychronology/1861a.html (6146 words)

	Ocean Springs Archives by Ray L. Bellande
		The launch of the USS Vincennes, with acting Master Billings in charge was also on the expedition and rendered very efficient service.
		The USS Texas was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard in the late 1880s.
		USS Texas saw action at the bombardment of Caimanera in June 1898, and the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in July 1898.
	www.oceanspringsarchives.com /civilwar.htm (8498 words)

	Civil War Artillery - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The significant historic fact regarding this howitzer is that it was on board the 20-gun sloop Germantown when she was burned at her mooring in order to avoid capture when Gosport Navy Yard was seized by Confederate forces in April 1861.
		I received word today that the boat howitzer salvaged from the USS Germantown at the slip at Norfolk Naval Shipyard was sent to Colonial Williamsburg on 15 November.
		In what is described as an unprecedented action in the history of the state, Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes revoked the license of a cemetery operator in the Peoria area.
	www.cwartillery.org /artnews.html (1875 words)

	A Capitol Fourth . History of the Fourth . July 4th Over the Years \| PBS
		In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the keel of the 20-gun sloop of the war vessel Portsmouth is laid.
		In Boston, the USS Constitution fires her cannons for the first time in 95 years.
		The Navy unveils a new aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney giving a speech.
	www.pbs.org /capitolfourth/occurrences.html (1856 words)

	Bulletin Board for USS Ticonderoga - CVS 14
		I am looking for anyone that knew Frank Gaeta, he is my father and passed away 25 years ago but i would like to know more about him in his youth.
		Looking for anyone who was on board the U.S.S. Tinconderoga when it was hit during the Japanese attack in the Pacific during WWII.
		Ticonderoga was a war fighting lady, outperforming the "big decks," and proving it by winning the Battle E time after time!
	military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,200218,00.html?... (484 words)

	World History Compass, United States History
		The Museum's permanent galleries display treasures like the anchor from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, Captain John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay, and the polar bear figurehead from the vessel of Admiral Richard Byrd on his Antarctic expedition in the 1930s.
		Centuries of maritime history are represented in the Museum's collection, which reflects the human use of the sea for transportation, food, battle, and pleasure.
		The Chicago Historical Society is a privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois, as well as selected areas of American history, to the public through exhibitions, programs, research collections, and publications.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /usa.htm (4631 words)

	2006 Chicago Maritime Festival - Internet Services Provided by Torresen Marine, Inc. - The Sailboat Specialists
		She graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in meteorology in 1992 and has received an NWS award for her presentations at the Chicago Maritime Festival.
		His was honored when he was chosen to be a diver/artist aboard the 2002 USS Monitor expedition which raised the gun turret.
		Come join the author the Chicago Tribune calls "one of the most imaginative writer's of thrillers" as he demonstrates why truth is indeed stranger than fiction in the case of the doomed excursion vessel the S.S. Eastland.
	www.chicagomaritimefestival.org /2006/presenters (3845 words)

	Bhutan, Bicentennials, Birds, Blacks, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana & Brasil Covers, Postal History ...
		Somewhat light DEC 15 1977 USS ALBERT DAVID (FF-1050) hand cancel ties 13-cent July 4 1776 stamp franking #6 cover to Ohio, first day of use for the large dark gray ship's cachet, violet double-ring cancel for the ship clearly struck in blank area, neatly addressed, never sealed.
		Clear AUG 30 1938 USS ORIOLE hand cancel with MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA in the killer bars ties a horizontal pair of 1-1 / 2-c Martha Washington prexies franking #6 cover to Illinois, attractive blue-anchors border all around, paper browning evenly with age, neatly addressed, tiny bends at 2 corners.
		Bold FEB 1 1939 USS ORIOLE hand cancel with MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA in the killer bars ties 1-c Washington and 2-c Adams prexies franking #6 cover to Illinois, generic brown ship cachet with blue-anchors border all around, paper browning evenly with age, neatly addressed.
	www.judnick.com /LotsOfCovers/Bhutan-Brasil.htm (4902 words)

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