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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-1-8-26

USS Illinois
(Battleship # 7)

View in a torpedo compartment, showing a trainable torpedo tube and a 18-inch torpedo, 1902.
Note the overhead rail for moving torpedos from their stowage position to the tube.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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4 February 2003