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Pages in category "Ships built in Illinois" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. USS Benefit; C.
Mobile base vessels used by service squadrons (command ships, barracks ships, bulk storage ships, unnamed barges, and floating shipyard equipment) Retired warships; Training equipment and simulators (including two Great Lakes-based paddlewheel aircraft carriers) War prizes; Currently only one ship, USS Prevail, actively carries an IX hull symbol.
Pages in category "Ships built in Seneca, Illinois" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009. The ship hasn't moved since its termination and then purchase by the Grand River Navigation Co., Traverse City, MI. [7]
The District auxiliary, miscellaneous (YAG) designation has been used as a cover for at least two ships employed in classified tests of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons (aka WMD). Some of these vessels have held prior or later classifications as unclassified miscellaneous (IX) , or more rarely as auxiliaries miscellaneous (AG, T-AG) .
Ships made of wood required a flexible material, insoluble in water, to seal the spaces between planks. Pine pitch was often mixed with fibers like hemp to caulk spaces which might otherwise leak. Crude gum or oleoresin could be collected from the wounds of living pine trees. White pine was used to build the masts and yellow pine for the decks.
Pages in category "Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
SS Illinois was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1873. The last of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Illinois and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.