CSS Oregon 1048750 203167793 2008-04-03T23:33:37Z Haus 976980 cleanup/some conversions using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {|{{Infobox Ship Begin}} {{Infobox Ship Image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox Ship Career |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag=[[Image:Confederate Navy Jack.svg|52px|Confederate Navy Jack]] |Ship name=CSS ''Oregon'' |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=1846 |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=1861 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Scuttled in April 1862 |Ship status= |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox Ship Characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type= |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=532 tons |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|216|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|26|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft={{convert|9|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=Steam engines |Ship sail plan= |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement= |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=1 x 8 in (203 mm) gun, 1 x 32 pounder (15 kg), two howitzers |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} |} '''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. == References == {{DANFS}} {{CSN gunboats}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Oregon}} [[Category:Naval ships of the Confederate States of America]] [[Category:United States Navy Oregon-related ships]] {{AmericanCivilWar-stub}} {{mil-ship-stub}}