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 | 1.70k | Bow view of the Oregon (BB-03) on the day of sailing for Cuba on 19 March 1898. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. PDF courtesy of the N.Y.Times via Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 2.40k | A photo of a drawing of Oregon (BB-03) which was a souvenir from Mechanics Institute Reception to Union Iron Works, San Francisco. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 368k | Oregon (BB-03) off San Francisco, California, 19 March 1898, the day she sailed for her 66 day, 14,000 mile voyage around South America to join U.S. forces in the Atlantic. | Photo from the collection of P.H. Proctor via Robert Hurst. | |
 | 3.14k | "OFF TO SEA" SIGNAL ON THE BATTLE-SHIP OREGON (BB-03). It is the last day of Oregon's 3 day stay in San Francisco, and the decks in the area of the battleship are crowded with hurrying, perspiring throngs of bluejackets. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 27 March 1898, Image 19 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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3.87k | THE BATTLESHIP OREGON (BB-03), WHICH MAY MEET THE GUNBOAT TEMERARIO | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 28 April 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 01/24/12. | |
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3.17k | GLORIOUS VISIT OF NEPTUNE ON BOARD THE BATTLE-SHIP OREGON (BB-03). | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 08 May 1898, Image 17 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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3.50k | THE WARSHIPS THAT MAY FORM THE NUCLEUS FOR A SQUADRON NEAR MARTINIQUE | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 17 May 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 79k | Oregon's (BB-03) crewmen secure the battleship's forecastle for heavy weather during the 66-day, 14,700 mile voyage around the tip of South America. | USN / USNI photo. | |
 | 63k | Photographic composite, by Allan J. Drugan, depicting Oregon (BB-03) steaming through heavy seas on the way to Cuba in March-May 1898, as described by Captain Charles E. Clark. | Courtesy of Allan J. Drugan / USNHC # 63514, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
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938k | OREGON (BB-03) SAFE - She Has Completed Her 13,000 Journey and is Safe-Probably With Sampson. NEWS REGARDED AS THE BEST SINCE THAT FROM MANILA. IS SHE WITH SAMPSON'S FLEET SECRETARY LONG REFUSES TO DISCLOSE HER WHEREABOUTS. OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED HAD BEEN APPREHENSIVE FOR THE OREGON'S SAFETY. | Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Missouri; Columbia, MO. Photo from Kansas City Journal.(Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 19 May 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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3.39k | HAVANA'S DEFENSES ARE SOON TO BE BOMBARDED OREGON (BB-03) WILL FIRE THE FIRST SHOT AT OLD MORRO | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 27 May 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 783k | TWO OF THE BIG GUNS ON THE BATTLESHIP OREGON (BB-03) THAT WILL REINFORCE THE SQUADRON AT SANTIAGO. | Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Salt Lake Herald. (Salt Lake City [Utah) 1870-1909, 04 June 1898, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.84k | DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER TERROR BY THE OREGON (BB-03). | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 09 June 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 2.99k | THE OREGON (BB-03), AMERICA'S UNRIVALED BATTLESHIP. Her marvelous journey of 17,409 miles in eighty-one days is an unequaled record for a battleship. Her continuous run of 4,500 knots from San Francisco to Jupiter Inlet, Florida has never been equaled. Her run of 2,484 knots at an average speed of 13 knots an hour is a record untouched by a ship of her class, as is also her run of 158 knots in ten hours. And yet from this gigantic journey, which breaks four world records, she comes into port with her engines as perfect as when she started. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Appeal. (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1889-19??, 11 June 1898, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 706k | THE OREGON (BB-03), QUEEN OF BATTLESHIPS | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from The Houston Daily Post. (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 12 June 1898, Mailable Edition, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 3.54k | THE BATTLE-SHIP OREGON (BB-03) STRIPPED FOR ACTION. Before going into battle nowadays a man-of-war is stripped of all paraphernalia that is in the least likely to create danger when struck by the missiles of the enemy. Woodwork in particular is ripped away and flung overboard. So are the small boats, railings, furniture and everything else that may furnish what the sailorman in action most dreads, "splinter." In the recent action at Manila some of the apprentices carried this practice to the extent of throwing overboard their sea chests and the stools and tables used at mess. When the battle was over they had to eat their meals sitting Turkish fashion about the messroom. About the only ornaments on a battle-ship in action are her big guns frowning from the turrets. Aside from them, the decks are swept as clear as possible of everything else. Heavy cable chains and sacks of coal or sand are sometimes placed about some spot that is deemed in need of protection. "Splinter nets" are sometimes spread also, as was done on the deck of the Olympia at Manila. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 26 June 1898, Image 21, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 732k | On the Afterdeck of the First Class Battleship Oregon (BB-03). | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from The Houston Daily Post.(Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 26 June 1898, Mailable Edition, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 83k | The Oregon (BB-03) coaling from transports at Key West, Florida. | Photo courtesy of A History of the War of 1898, published by Collier in 1898, and submitted by Daniel Wilmes. | |
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1.23k | THE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO,DE CUBA, JULY 3, 1898. A PAINTING OF THE ENGAGEMENT PLACED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CONSTRUCTOR OF THE NAVY | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 17 February 1901, Image 28, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 88k | Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark was the Commanding Officer of the Oregon (BB-03) during the cruise from San Francisco to Key West and then in the Battle of Santiago on 3 July 1898 during the Spanish-American War. | Digital ID: ggbain 18222. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
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256k | Oregon (BB-03) in action. Naval Exhibit on the Pike, Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis 1904. | Photo courtesy of Arnold A. Putnam. Text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 91k | Oregon (BB-03) commanded by Captain Robeley D. Evans, opens fire on the batteries at Santiago, Cuba. | U.S. National Archives photo and text from An Illustrated History of the United States Navy by Chester G. Hearn courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
 | 4.91k | THE SQUADRON THAT IS TO ATTACK SPANISH SEAPORTS. The cruiser Newark (C-1), flagship; the battleships Iowa (BB-04) and Oregon (BB-03), the auxiliary cruisers Yosemite, Yankee and Dixie (AD-1) and the colliers Scindia, Abarenda,and Alexander compose the squadron under Commodore John Crittenden Watson that is to bombard Spanish cities and capture the Canary islands. Commodore Watson's command is to be known as the eastern squadron, and its best all around ship is undoubtedly the battleship Iowa..... Commodore Watson was the gallant young officer who lashed Admiral Farragut to the rigging during the battle of Mobile Bay. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The Record-Union.(Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 04 July 1898, Image 7, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 2.93k | AS COMMODORE WATSON'S SQUADRON WILL APPEAR EN ROUTE TO SPAIN. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 12 July 1898, Image 1,via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 896k | Composite of four reproductions of photographs of the crew of the battleship Oregon (BB-03) celebrating after the surrender of the Cristo'bal Colon off Santiago de Cuba, and one view of the Spanish cruiser Cristo'bal Colon. | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 30 July 1898, p. 732. Digital ID: cph # 3c03139, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 211k | The home-coming of the fleet -- the naval parade, New York, 20 August 1898. Oregon (BB-03) in New York City Harbor. | Photo # J239186 U.S. Copyright Office. Digital ID: cph 3c03140. Source: Library of Congress, Photographer: Edward H. Hart. Illus. in Harper's Weekly, 1898 Sept. 3, p. 864. Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
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3.44k | GLORIOUS HOME-COMING OF THE SANTIAGO SQUADRON THE GREAT NAVAL PARADE ON THE HUDSON. JUST BEFORE IT REACHED CASTLE WILLIAM, FROM WHICH THE FIRST SALUTE WAS FIRED GUNS OF SAMPSON'S SHIPS THUNDER IN PEACEFUL WATERS |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 21 August 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 106k | Oregon (BB-03) underway in New York Harbor during the Spanish-American War victory naval review, August 1898. Photographed by C.C. Langill, New York. | USNHC photo # NH 105573, from the collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltramini, 2007. | |
 | 58k | In New York Harbor just after the end of the Spanish-American War, August 1898. | USNHC # NH 61502, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 235k | Deck of the battleship Oregon (BB-03). | Courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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401k | A buff colored Oregon (BB-03) with an awning covering her stern. | Photo courtesy of Arnold A. Putnam. | |
 | 147k | Starboard side, 1898 with a sailing vessel in the background. | USNHC # 19-N-2-20-1, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 65k | Photographed in 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman and published on a stereographic card by Underwood & Underwood. | USNHC # NH 82656, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 59k | View looking aft from her forecastle, showing visitors atop her forward 13-inch gun turret, 1898. The original photograph was copyright 1898 by B.L. Singley and published on a stereographic card by the Keystone View Company. | USNHC # NH 82644, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 72k | Crewmen loading small caliber fixed ammunition, 1898. The original photograph was published on a stereographic card by Webster & Albee, Rochester, NY. | USNHC # NH 94260, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 675k | DEWEY SENDS A HURRY CALL FOR THE OREGON (BB-03) Wants Her at Manila at Once for "Political Reasons." "We're Coming, Admiral" | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Evening Times. (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 24 February 1899, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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689k | THE OREGON (BB-03) HAS REACHED MANILA. The Formidable Fighting Machine Arrives in Good Condition | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 19 March 1899, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 29k | Distributing mail to the Oregon's (BB-03) crew. | Photo by Edward H. Hart by The Detroit Publishing Company as # det 4a14633& now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) as # LC-D4-20860. | |
 | 36k | Torpedo tubes aboard the Oregon (BB-03). | Photo by Edward H. Hart by The Detroit Publishing Company as # det 4a14611& now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) as # LC-D4-20828. | |
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3.35k | NOW THE AMERICAN BOY HAS A CHANCE TO DISTINGUISH HIMSELF IN THE NAVY What Gunner Brown Has Done on the Oregon (BB-03) |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 16 July 1899, Image 24, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 01/24/12. | |
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60k | Oil on canvas painting entitled "Return of the Conquerors, September 29, 1899", by the artist Edward Moran (1829-1901), which appears in the collections of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, features the Texas, Indiana (BB-01), Massachusetts (BB-02), Oregon (BB-03), Iowa (BB-04) and other ships of the victorious U.S. fleet. | Partial text and drawing courtesy of USNI. | |
Additional Oregon Images
23 General Views Of Oregon From The Library Of Congress Server.
19 Crew Images Of Oregon From The Library Of Congress Server.
14 Interior Views Of Oregon From The Library Of Congress Server.
12 Battle Of Santiago Images From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS OREGON BB-3 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages by Andrew Toppan.
Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Bits & Pieces by Mark Howells
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