[or-roots] and then there was the Battleship Oregon

[Tom Tregoning]

To All In Oregon,
Website #1
On this day (June 15) in 1925 the U.S. Navy bestowed the battleship Oregon to the State of Oregon as a patriotic memorial of her famous cruise, a record voyage made in the spring of 1898 when the vessel steamed 4,726 miles from Puget Sound to Sand Key, Florida without a stop for any purpose and according to official reports, "without a loose bolt or screw out of order. At Santiago, Cuba, the Oregon fired the first shot in a contest which sealed the fate of the Spanish Navy.
Website #2
U.S. Battleship "Oregon"
Copyright 1898, by B.L. Lingley.


The cost of a single 13-inch gun such as is here shown, is $63,000 and its mount $18,500, aggregating $81,500. The cost for firing this gun a single time with armor-piercing shell, is $560.00. The 13-inch rifle has been proved most desirable because the most destructive weapon, throwing with great velocity and wonderful penetrating power, a projectile weighing 1,100 lbs., while the 12-inch shell weighs only 850 lbs. The heaviest guns which Com. [now Admiral] Dewey had when he sunk Montejo's fleet in Manila Bay and silenced the shore batteries, were 8-inch rifles.

The keel of the battleship "Oregon" was laid in 1891. Length on load water line, 348 feet; extreme breadth, 69 feet 3 inches; displacement 10,288 tons; speed, 15 knots. Battery, four 13-inch, eight 8-inch, four 6-inch breech-loading rifles; twenty 6-pounders, six 1-pounders and four Gatlings. Officers and men, 424. Cost, $3,180,000.

This battleship is of special interest on account of her matchless trip around Cape Horn. Leaving San Francisco March 12th, 1898, she arrived at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, on May 24th, covering a distance of over 13,000 miles without a mishap, and played an important part in the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet.

Tom

At 2/7/0505:48 PM, D. J. Brotherton wrote:
>Remember that the Battleship Oregon when it was dismantled was cut up and  small peices sold for War Bonds.  At least that is what I remember.  Anyone else know more.
> 
>Dolores
> 
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <mailto:gmurray1 at cox.net>Gary Murray 
>To: <mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] and then there was the Battleship Oregon
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>i have heard of it.  in fact anyone that has lived in portland for more then an hour knows where it is.
>gary in az.   [soon to be back in ore. i hope]
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <mailto:dgoodma02 at comcast.net>dgoodma02 at comcast.net 
>To: <mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>Oregon Group 
>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:53 PM
>Subject: [or-roots] and then there was the Battleship Oregon
>
>I remember my dad taking me down to the Willamette and on board the Battle ship "Oregon".
>We climbed all  over and into that neet old ship. I was about 8 or ten years old.
>Anyone else that old to remember the "Oregon"?  The Mast is Still on the Willamette.  I Browsed the net and found a really great Picture of  that ship.
>--
>Bob Goodman 
>USAF Retired 
>University Place, Washington
>
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