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

[CARROLLOUC at aol.com]

Thanks for the great information on the battleship Oregon. I remember her 
when growing up in Portland in the '30's and 40's. We were very pround of the 
ship. I often visit the monument when visiting Portland.

Carroll Cooper Summers
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
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