<p>On verso of image: U.S.S. Battleship Oregon, Mon. Sept. 7 (1895).</p>
<p>The U.S. battleship OREGON was a noted Spanish American War fighting ship.  It was idle from 1906 to 1911, when it was recommissioned at the Bremerton Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, after extensive modernization.  (pg. 193)  Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).<br><br></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Oregon (Battleship); Battleships--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul>
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