U.S.S. Oregon
BB-3
1896
(Navis 317)
- Class: Indiana - 3 battleships of 1890
- Displacement: 10,288 tons
- Dimensions: 351' x 69' x 24'
- Machinery: twin screw, vertical triple-expansion, I.H.P. 9,000 = 15 knots
- Armor: Main belt 18". turrets 15", barbettes 17", C.T. 9 in.
- Armament: 4-13"/35 (2x2), 8-8"/35 (4x2), 4-6"/40, 20-6 pdr., 6-1 pdr.; 6-18 in. T.T.
- Complement: 32+441
- Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA
- Laid down: 19 Nov 1891
- Launched: 26 Oct 1893
- Commissioned: 15 Jul 1896
- Service: The only battleship assigned to the Pacific Fleet, she made an epic 14,000 mile voyage from Bremerton, Washington, around Cape Horn, to Jupiter Inlet, Florida, in a record 66 days to reenforce the Atlantic Fleet when war with Spain seemed imminent. She joined in time to take part in the Battle of Santiago, 3 Jul 1898. Later assigned to the Asiatic Station to help suppress the Philippine Insurrection. Dispatched to China during the Boxer Rebellion, she did not return stateside until 1906. In and out of commission through Word War I, in 1918 she was briefly attached to the American Siberian Expeditionary Force at Vladivostok. Demilitarized 4 Jan 1924 and reclassified IX-22. Loaned to State of Oregon as naval relic, 15 Jun 1925. Recalled by Presidential order 26 Oct 1942. Partially scrapped; used as a dynamite barge at Guam. Sold 15 Mar 1956; scrapped in Japan.
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