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Show Old Battleship Oregon Rusting at Pacific Base GUAM. The glamour ship of the Spanish-American war, the old battleship bat-tleship Oregon, came out to the western Pacific to die in this modern mod-ern new war But she is still afloat. , Navy men who had planned to sink her to help build a breakwater concede now she wouldn't even make good breakwater materiaL Crewless and denuded, the Oregon lies at anchor in a little inlet blasted blast-ed through coral reefs at an island base. . In the Spanish-American war in 1898 the Oregon made history when she steamed from the West coast around South America to Cuba just in time to join in the victory over the Spanish fleet at Santiago. When towed out to the western Pacific Pa-cific to be sunk, the Oregon was loaded with 1,400 tons of dynamite since unloaded and a false rumor spread like wildfire that she was going to be towed right into Tokyo and blown up. |