Talk:USS Oregon (BB-3)

Parts sold?
A friend told me that parts of the USS Oregon were sold to the mining operation at Jawbone Flats, Oregon in the Opal Creek Wilderness. There are indeed numerous rusty boilers and cool stuff like that up there, right off the main trail. Seems like an interesting addendum to the history of the ship. This is mostly a note to myself (or whoever beats me to it) to follow up on that and see if there is a source for the info. Katr67 21:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

File:USS Oregon in dry dock, 1898.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:USS Oregon in dry dock, 1898.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on May 19, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-05-19. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — howcheng  {chat} 19:46, 18 May 2012 (UTC)


 * If you had posted this one or two weeks ago I would have done just that, but now it is already too late. Yoenit (talk) 09:23, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Pacific Station?
The Pacific Station was Royal Navy. Is it correct where the second paragraph says "Oregon served for a short time with the Pacific Station before being ordered on a voyage around South America . . ." Surely not. -- KenWalker | Talk 21:42, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The term is used in the DANFS entry of the ship and in several contempary sources. Clearly the term is not commonly used anymore, but it seems as though the Pacific Station article is incomplete and term is not Royal Navy only. I suppose we could relink to Pacific Squadron, but none of the sources actually mentions that term. Yoenit (talk) 23:12, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Torpedo Tubes
The footnotes indicate a discrepancy in the number of torpedo tubes. The number of torpedo tubes changed over time. Notice in the picture shown The aft torpedo tube is removed, plated over and unpainted. That picture is dated 1898. I have other pictures from the same year showing the tube in place.

Thus, it is likely that it is during this drydocking and refit in Brooklyn that the torpedo tube (which ran through the Captain's cabin and was probably a nuisance) was removed.

I suggest then that there were originally 6 torpedo tubes (bow, stern 2x port, and 2x starboard) and this was reduced to 5. The side tubes were above the armor belt, 2 forward and 2 aft. The doors on the starboard side are both open in the picture.

Big Jim Slade — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.111.229.151 (talk) 04:29, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey Jim, what you say sounds likely, but unfortunately we can't include it into the article unless we have a published source that explicitly says so. This is because Wikipedia has a strict policy against original research. Yoenit (talk) 15:52, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Source
-- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:55, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
 * http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/08/legendary_battleship_uss_orego.html

West Coast
Is she the only US Navy Battleship built on the west Coast ? Only a limited number of US Navy Cruisers were built on the West Coast. Wfoj3 (talk) 15:51, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

- no, USS Wisconsin (BB-9) and USS Ohio (BB-12) were built by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco and USS Nebraska (BB-14) was built by Moran Brothers in Seattle. For dreadnoughts, USS California (BB-44) and the cancelled Montana (BB-51) were built at Mare Island. Parsecboy (talk) 21:41, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion: re-commission vs. 2nd commission (participation welcomed and encouraged)
I did some homework on this both before I made the adjustment to the {infobox} and now more after the alteration by

I do not believe that re-commission (with or without the hyphen) is an appropriate word in this instance and I oppose its usage as a custom field label. It should be listed as "2nd Commission" or similar. Same with the additional decommissioning. If one of our soldiers, or other enlisted personnel, accepts or is assigned an additional tour of duty we do not refer to it as a "re-tour". They are said to have taken a 2nd tour of duty.(or 3rd ect.) If one chooses to extend their military service career without interruption, they preform the verb of reenlistment. I would surmise that our ships having been given a name and identity, would also garner the same form of acknowledgement to multiple instances of service to our country. I'm not saying "recommission" is not a usable word as a verb, I am challenging it as usable as a noun in this instance. I could not locate a distinct term for a soldier that retires or otherwise leaves military service and then returns for an additional assignment or duty, then showing a gap or "off-duty period" in the service record.

I am not well-read into our military, nor am I in any sense an authority on the English language, but this is what I have found and how I perceive the information I have on the issue. I open this for discussion and ask for input from editors wiser on the subject than I, rather than just edit over the top of someone who has only asked for help in improving the article to begin with. I want to assure not only accuracy within the article making it better, but that my concept of this is not askew or uncommon when compared with other people. ---> Darryl.P.Pike (talk) 21:22, 17 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the correction, I had seen "Re-commission" in a different article, but after what you've said I agree with you. I really appreciate your correction and help with improving the article and totaly agree. Sorry I edited over top of you in the first place A 10 fireplane (talk) 13:30, 18 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Please, do not be sorry, at all. Please,  Be bold!  Your edit was cause for discussion and resulted in a better article, there was nothing incorrect about it.  This is exactly how the wiki is supposed to work, and we both learned the same thing for different reasons.  Learning is a life long process.  Feel free to hit me up for help or questions by posting on my talk page or {ping} me from yours is just as acceptable.  Several people have helped me grow my knowledge and understanding of this site, I am happy to pass that on and point you in the right direction should you need it.   Keep it up!  ---> Darryl.P.Pike (talk) 15:32, 18 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Awesome thanks I'll keep helping and learning from people like you, y'all are the real reasion Wikipedia is so great ;) A 10 fireplane (talk) 16:05, 18 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I just read the Be bold! and its really motivating, will do thanks :) A 10 fireplane (talk) 18:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Template:Infobox ship begin/Usage guide has this guidance for multiple commissioning events which I have illustrated in the infobox section in this topic: —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:53, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Used best with multiple copies of the "Career" subtemplate (Ship commissioned and Ship decommissioned fields in the first template, Ship recommissioned and Ship decommissioned in the second).


 * what said is true. Wikipedia does list it as re-commission, however I do still agree it should be 2nd Commission. Thank you  for the imput. A 10 fireplane (talk) 15:53, 21 May 2018 (UTC)


 * , just wondering if the templates talk page would be a better place to bring this up, you probably aren't getting the audience that you need here.Pennsy22 (talk) 03:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)