Talk:Illinois-class battleship

The What?
Okay, I'll bite: what is "The Peace of the Wisconsin" listed under Wisconsin's operational history? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.11 (talk) 20:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Hull numbers
Is it really correct to refer to these ships as "BB-xx" when they were all decommissioned before the "BB" hull classification symbol came into use in 1920? 216.255.171.122 (talk) 17:07, 16 May 2020 (UTC)


 * This is how sources routinely refer to them, so we follow suit. Parsecboy (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Illinois-class or Alabama-class?
Given that the Alabama was the first one laid down and the first commissioned ship of this class, shouldn't they be described as Alabama-class battleships? My source (Padfield, Battleship) calls them "Alabamas".Merrybrit (talk) 21:54, 6 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Most sources follow US naming conventions, which name the class after the first vessel authorized. There's a similar discrepancy with the Colorado-class battleship, where a different ship was completed first (which causes some European sources to refer to them as the "Maryland class"). Parsecboy (talk) 22:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)