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<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005>For your info:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005>Here is the story of the the Oregon
(BB-3)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005><STRONG></STRONG><BR>Displacement 10,288
Tons, Dimensions, 351' 2" (oa) x 69' 3" x 27' 2" (Max)<BR>Armament 4 x 13"/35 8
x 8"/35, 4 x 6"/30, 4 x 18"tt<BR>Armor, 18" Belt, 15" Turrets, 3" Decks, 10"
Conning Tower.<BR>Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 vertical, inverted, triple expansion
engines, 2 screws<BR>Speed, 15 Knots, Crew 473.<BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005></SPAN><SPAN class=296570801-08022005>And
her history:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005></SPAN>Laid down by Union iron Works, San
Francisco, CA., on November 19 1891.<BR>Launched October 26
1893.<BR>Commissioned July 15 1896.<BR>Decommissioned April 27 1906.
<BR>Recommissioned August 29 1911.<BR>Decommissioned June 12
1919.<BR>Recommissioned August 21 1919.<BR>Decommissioned October 4
1919.<BR>Stricken November 22 1920.<BR>Demilitarized and <SPAN
class=296570801-08022005>l</SPAN>oaned as <SPAN
class=296570801-08022005>m</SPAN>useum to the State of Oregon, January 4
1924.<BR>Stricken November 2 1942.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><SPAN class=296570801-08022005>Then her Fate:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005></SPAN><SPAN
class=296570801-08022005>S</SPAN>old for scrap, December 7 1942.<BR>Required by
Navy and stripped to main deck, September 1943.<BR>Reclassified IX-22 and used
as ammunition Barge.<BR>Hulk sold for scrap, March 15 1956, and broken up in
Kawasaki, Japan.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=296570801-08022005>Ben Tabler, USN
(ret)</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>