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 | 475k | Battle Cruisers, 823,000,000 Each, Are Greatest of Fighters The new battle cruiser, six of which type are building. Photograph from the Navy Department drawing made after plans finally were perfected. The ships are the last word in marine fighting machines and none like them is being built or planned by any other nation. Superimposed on the battle cruiser is an outline of the Oregon (BB-03), pride of the Navy in Spanish War days and considered one of the greatest fighting vessels in the world at that time. One of the new battle cruisers could whip 6 Oregon's and not be touched by their shells. | Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Ogden Standard-Examiner. (Ogden, Utah) 1920-current, 11 January 1921, LAST EDITION, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 82k | The Oregon (BB-03) leaving Seattle going to Portland 1925 being assisted by a unidentified USCG harbor cutter. | Photo courtesy of Jim Geldert. | |
 | 1.10k | The Oregon (BB-03) appears here in a photo taken in 1929 while it was a floating museum in Portland Oregon. The photo was taken of the Broadway Bridge in down town Portland, OR. In the foreground on can see the stern wheeler Portland, now providing dinner cruises on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. On the right side of the photo is the unmistakable Oregon. According to older Oregonians, the ship was purchased after demilitarization by the school children of Oregon through donations of their milk money. Many are angry that the ship was subsequently given back to the Navy for a trip to Guam as an ammo barge then to the scrap heap. | USN photo & text courtesy of Rick Hart. | |
 | 32k | Battleship Oregon (BB-03) and Park, Portland, Oregon in 1940. Two old cannons flank the walkway to the famed battleship that rested peacefully after years of service to her country. Duty would soon call in less than two years. | Photo courtesy of Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Bits & Pieces By Mark Howells. | |
 | 91k | Ship's appearance as a museum / historical center in Portland, Oregon. Photo dated from 1941-1942. | USN photo. | |
 | 482k | Undated (probably 1942 / 43) view of the Oregon (BB-03) at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. | Photo courtesy of Ron Reeves. Photo added 05/09/12. | |
 | 32k | The initial scrapping of the Oregon (BB-03), from the book "McKinley's Bulldog. The Battleship Oregon written by Sanford Sternlicht (copyright 1977). Her main mast is in the process of being removed; a process that would eventually see her transformed from a once stately battleship into a floating hulk of an ammunition barge. | Photo courtesy of Scott Honodel. | |
 | 87k | PDF article comprising 6 pages on the occasion of the Memorial Battleship Oregon (BB-03) Mast and Park, 29 Oct 1944. | Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 73k | Oregon (BB-03) as an ammunition barge 1945, Guam. | USNI/USN photo, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 208k | Former battleship Oregon (BB-03) being used as a barge, June 1945. | Photographer: J. R. Eyerman, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com. & life.com | |
 | 52k | September, 1956 photo of the ship being scrapped in Kawasaki, Japan. | USN photo. | |
 | 18k | September, 1956 photo of the ship being scrapped in Kawasaki, Japan. This large opening in the deck once housed the powerful 13" rifles that helped forge a new world power. Note the yard worker at the upper left of the photograph. | Photo courtesy of Mr. Robert Lawrence via Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Bits & Pieces by Mark Howells | |
 | 25k | Slabs of the Oregon's (BB-03) armor lay piled up dockside, September, 1956 after the ship was completely scrapped in Kawasaki, Japan. | Photo courtesy of Mr. Robert Lawrence via Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Bits & Pieces by Mark Howells | |
 | 196k | Anchor chain from Oregon (BB-03) memorial display at Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan, July, 1957. | Photo by Doug Guy, courtesy of Gary Priolo. | |
 | 376k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages by Andrew Toppan.
Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Bits & Pieces by Mark Howells
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