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'''CSS ''Oregon''''', a wooden steam [[gunboat]] was the only ship of the [[Confederate States Navy]] to be named for [[Oregon|the 33rd state]]. A wooden steamer similar to ''California'', she was built at [[New York City]] in 1846 for the Mobile Mail Line, 60 percent owned at the end of April [[1861]] by the Geddes family of [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], and [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], the remainder by R. A. Heirn and Samuel Wolff of [[Mobile, Alabama]]. Described as having "one deck, one mast, no galleries and a billethead," she was permanently enrolled (coastwise) at New Orleans on [[20 June]] [[1858]]. Seized by Louisiana's Governor Moore sometime in 1861, she was an early and successful blockade runner, apparently only in the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Under Captain A. P. Boardman she had somehow contrived to make 92 "entrances and clearances" at blockaded ports before being picked for arming as a man-of-war; how much of this coastal service was under Confederate Army auspices is not altogether clear. Captain A. L. Myers succeeded to her command.
After being converted into a gunboat, ''Oregon'' operated in [[Mississippi Sound]] on various assignments. On [[13 July]] [[1861]] she steamed in company with ''Arrow'' to the vicinity of [[Ship Island Light]] where they vainly attempted to lure [[USS Massachusetts (1860)|USS ''Massachusetts'']] within range of shore batteries. During September 1861 she evacuated Confederate property and troops from [[Ship Island (Mississippi)|Ship Island]], [[Mississippi]]. When Confederate forces evacuated New Orleans in April 1862, ''Oregon'' was destroyed to prevent capture.
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