On this day in 1925 the U.S. Navy bestowed the battleship Oregon
to the State of Oregon as a patriotic memorial of her famous cruise, a record voyage made in the spring of 1898 when the vessel steamed 4,726 miles from Puget Sound to Sand Key, Florida without a stop for any purpose and according to official reports, "without a loose bolt or screw out of order. At Santiago, Cuba, the Oregon fired the first shot in a contest which sealed the fate of the Spanish Navy.
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