Photo #: NH 68863
USS Illinois (Battleship # 7)
In the new floating drydock at New Orleans Naval Station, Louisiana,
6 January 1902.
The original caption reads: "Illinois was placed
in the new New Orleans floating dry dock to test her capabilities
(the dry dock's). At two o'clock the huge ship stood high and
dry on the keel blocks."
Courtesy of the David Wightmann Family, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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