DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 79492
USS Illinois (Battleship # 7)
Crewmen drilling with some of the ship's midships 6-pounder guns,
prior to World War I.
Note the boats and oars stowed overhead, and the raised working
platforms for the gun crews.
Copied from the book "The United States Navy Illustrated",
published in New York, 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 430 pixels
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