USS Oregon (BB-3)

Photograph

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Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

USS Oregon (BB-3)

Entry/Object ID

PC06423

Description

Color port side view of the Oregon at anchor using port anchor, flying US colors at stern mast and Union Jack at bow staff, gangway rigged on port quarter, small launch moored to port boat boom, canvas cover on after main deck, flying home bound pennant from peak of main mast, launched 26 October 1893, extensive Naval career, reclassified as BB-3 on 17 July 1920, reclassified as (IX-22), used as ammunition barge at Guam, struck from Navy List 2 November 1942 after a number of years as a floating monument at Portland, OR, scrapped 15 May 1956.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Color

Collection

Postcard Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Source, Unknown

Studio

Edward H. Mitchell Publishers

Date made

n.d.

Place

Unknown

Unknown

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Postcard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Search Terms

Postcard, III-A-2 U.S. Navy -- Battleships