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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" |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Sea trials prior to commissioning. Note the builder's flag flying form the main mast. |
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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.
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David Buell |
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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
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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.
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Bill Gonyo |
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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.
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National Archives |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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USNHC |
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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 |
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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 |
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USS Oregon City (CA 122) awaiting scrapping at Union Alloy, Kearny, August 1974. |
Courtesy of Dave Schroeder via John Chiquoine. |
