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Photo # 80-G-262557:  USS Oregon City underway, 17 June 1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Oregon City (CA-122), 1946-1973

USS Oregon City, first of a class of 13,700-ton heavy cruisers, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in mid-February 1946, she shook down in the Caribbean area, then was generally stationed at Philadelphia and Boston over the next year, going to sea in October for a two week Naval Reserve training cruise to Bermuda. Oregon City made another training trip in June-August 1947, this time taking Naval Academy midshipmen to the Caribbean and the Panama Canal Zone. Upon her return to the U.S., she went to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to prepare for decommissioning, which took place in December 1947. Laid up as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet for nearly twenty-three years, USS Oregon City was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in November 1970 and sold for scrapping in August 1973.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Oregon City (CA-122).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: 80-G-262557

USS Oregon City
(CA-122)

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.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 99073

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.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-668655

Reserve Fleet Basin, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania


Photographed on 19 May 1955 with numerous cruisers, escort carriers, and auxiliaries in reserve.
The nearest ship is the never-completed Hawaii (CB-3), which lacks its previously-installed three 12" gun turrets.
Many of the other ships present are identified in Photo # 80-G-668655 (complete caption).

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

Online Image: 138KB; 635 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-668656

Reserve Fleet Basin, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania


Photographed on 19 May 1955 with numerous cruisers laid up in the center and right.
Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # 80-G-668656 (complete caption).

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

Online Image: 139KB; 645 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 99074

USS Oregon City
(CA-122)

Men handling mooring lines during the first 14-day post-World War II cruise by Naval Reservists from the First, Third and Fourth Naval Districts and the Potomac River Naval Command. The cruise began at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October. Liberty stops were made at New York City and Bermuda before the Reservists disembarked at Boston, Massachusetts, at the completion of the two-week voyage.

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

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99075

USS Oregon City
(CA-122)

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.

Online Image: 136KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99076

USS Oregon City
(CA-122)

Ship's Captain inspects her crew, 1946.
Note the aircraft hangar hatch.

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

Online Image: 131KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99077

USS Oregon City
(CA-122)

Crewmen sunbathing on the cruiser's after deck, 1946.

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

Online Image: 131KB; 585 x 765 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at other views of USS Oregon City (CA-122). The following list features some of these photographs:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-59707
    USS Oregon City (CA-122) at rest in calm water, circa early 1946. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 17 September 1947, but her two-tone Measure 22 camouflage scheme indicates that the photo was taken when she was first completed.
    Starboard bow surface view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-367651
    USS Oregon City (CA-122) at rest or underway at very low speed, circa early 1946. This photo was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 8 May 1946.
    Starboard bow high aerial view. The view looks down on the ship, with the sun making very bright highlights on the water beyond her port quarter. Oregon City's decks are well-lighted, but her starboard side is very darkly shadowed.

  • Photo #: 80-G-367654
    As 80-G-367651, but starboard quarter high aerial view, without the solar highlights.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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