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USS OREGON CITY (CA 122)


       

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Hotel - Charlie - Papa
Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign - Duplex

CLASS - OREGON CITY
Displacement 13,700 Tons, Dimensions, 674' 11" (oa) x 70' 10" x 26' 6" (Max)
Armament 9 x 8"/55, 12 x 5"/38AA, 48 x 40mm, 24 x 20mm, 4 Aircraft
Armor, 6" Belt, 8" Turrets, 2 1/2" Deck, 6" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 120,000 SHP; G. E. Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 2000.
Keel laid on 08 APR 1944 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA
Launched 09 JUN 1945
Commissioned 16 FEB 1946
Decommissioned 15 DEC 1947
Stricken 01 NOV 1970
Fate: Sold for scrap on 17 AUG 1973

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

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Oregon City
0412214
247k Photo caption "(BX1) Quincy, Mass., June 9-New Heavy Cruiser- The USS Oregon City (CA 122) was launched today at the Quincy Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Co. The new Heavy Cruiser is here shown as it hit the water. Sponsor of the ship was Mrs. Raymond P. Caufield, of Oregon City , Oregon. (AP Wirephoto)(DG71235Fox) '45" Chadd Smith
Oregon City
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Newest Cruiser
The navy's newest heavy cruiser, USS Oregon City (CA 122) sliding down the ways as it is launched at the Fore River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass. It weighs 13,000 tons.

Image and text provided by Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library.
Photo from Detroit Evening Times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 13 June 1945, REDLINE, Image 13, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Oregon City
0412200
440k USS Oregon City (CA 122) is at the fitting out dock at Beth Fore River, Quincy MA on 6 January 1946. She is the leading cruiser with the lower bridge superstructure. Photo from the Tin Can Sailors archive, Somerset MA. Photo from the Tin Can Sailors archive, Somerset MA. courtesy of John Chiquoine.
Oregon City
0412207
128k Sea trials prior to commissioning. Note the builder's flag flying form the main mast. David Buell
Oregon City
0412212
1.1m

Aerial view, date and location unknown but probably builder's trials or soon after commissioning due to condition of hull.

U.S. Navy photo, BUAer #195512.

David Buell
Oregon City
0412209
137k

Captain's inspection on the cruiser's after deck, 1946. Note catapult training gear in the foreground, and ship's after triple 8"/55 gun turret.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 99075

Bill Gonyo
Oregon City
0412208
1.08k

Underway approximately ten miles northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on 17 June 1946. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-262557.

Bill Gonyo
Oregon City
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USS Oregon City (CA 122) crewmen sunbathing on the cruiser's after deck, 1946.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives # NH 99077.

National Archives
Oregon City
0412202
449k A mast-yard-view at pier 6 Phila NSY, October 1946. USS Oregon City (CA 122) was preparing for a training cruise. Photo # NA 80-G-59921 courtesy of Rick Davis and John Chiquoine.
Oregon City
0412216
NR

Cruises on Peace Mission.
The USS Oregon City (CA 122), one of the new heavy cruisers, which carried 500 Reservists and an equal number of Regular Navy men on an October training cruise to Bermuda and back to Boston.....

Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 27 October 1946, Image 41, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Oregon City 185k

The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Oregon City (CA 122) tows the light aircraft carrier USS Saipan (CVL 48) during a towing exercise in the Caribbean Sea, April 1947.

U.S. Navy photo from the Saipan 1946–1947 Cruise Book.

Robert Hurst
Oregon City 85k

USS Oregon City (CA 122) Laid up as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, 1959. The original photograph is dated 8 September 1959.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 99073.

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Oregon City
0412210
275k Oregon City (left) and Macon (right) during the winter of 1972 or the very early spring of 1973 at the Philadelphia Naval ship yard. Jim Cunliffe
Oregon City
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302k Macon (left) and Oregon City (right) during the winter of 1972 or the very early spring of 1973 at the Philadelphia Naval ship yard. Jim Cunliffe
Oregon City
0412201
432k USS Oregon City (CA 122) awaiting scrapping at Union Alloy, Kearny, August 1974. Courtesy of Dave Schroeder via John Chiquoine.

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Final Rank Dates
Culver, Burtnett Kent., CAPT   02/16/1946 - 12/15/1947

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS OREGON CITY (CA 122) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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