&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Illinois_BB-65.jpg) USS Illinois (BB-65) in July 1945, just weeks before construction was canceled
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Illinois |
| Namesake | State of Illinois |
| Ordered | 9 September 1940 |
| Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 6 December 1942 |
| Stricken | 12 August 1945 |
| Fate | Dismantled on slipway, September 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Iowa-class battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 887 feet 3 inches (270.4 m) loa |
| Beam | 108 ft 2 in (33 m) |
| Draft | 36 ft 2.25 in (11 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) |
| Range | 15,000 mi (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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USS[a] Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class fast battleship that was laid down for the United States Navy during World War II in the 1940s, although she would not be completed. The Navy had initially planned on building four of the Iowas and then developing a new, more powerful ship for what was to be BB-65. The pressing need for more warships at the outbreak of World War II in Europe led the Navy to conclude that new designs would have to be placed on hold to allow the shipbuilding industry to standardize on a small number of designs. As a result, BB-65 was ordered to the Iowa design in 1940. Illinois was laid down in December 1942, but work was given a low priority, and was still under construction at the end of World War II. She was canceled in August 1945, but her hull remained as a parts hulk until she was broken up in 1958.
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