[or-roots] and then there was the Battleship Oregon

[Ben Tabler]

For your info:

Here is the story of the the Oregon (BB-3)

Displacement 10,288 Tons, Dimensions, 351' 2" (oa) x 69' 3" x 27' 2" (Max)
Armament 4 x 13"/35 8 x 8"/35, 4 x 6"/30, 4 x 18"tt
Armor, 18" Belt, 15" Turrets, 3" Decks, 10" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 vertical, inverted, triple expansion engines, 2
screws
Speed, 15 Knots, Crew 473.

And her history:

Laid down by Union iron Works, San Francisco, CA., on November 19 1891.
Launched October 26 1893.
Commissioned July 15 1896.
Decommissioned April 27 1906.
Recommissioned August 29 1911.
Decommissioned June 12 1919.
Recommissioned August 21 1919.
Decommissioned October 4 1919.
Stricken November 22 1920.
Demilitarized and loaned as museum to the State of Oregon, January 4 1924.
Stricken November 2 1942.

Then her Fate:
Sold for scrap, December 7 1942.
Required by Navy and stripped to main deck, September 1943.
Reclassified IX-22 and used as ammunition Barge.
Hulk sold for scrap, March 15 1956, and broken up in Kawasaki, Japan.

Ben Tabler, USN (ret)
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