Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-07-07
IS SOUNDED
FOR HISTORIC SHIPS
American Guns Will Send Hero
Vessels oE Navy 10 Final
Resting Place
TEXAS WAS FIRST TO co


The Mary Department has decided
Is break up and sell for junk or use
tor targets twelve obsolete battleahips
Arks The passing Of feet Of YES
sells long Identified With many ct the
sost glorious achievements Of tho
naw American navy. They wrote
sany bright pages Into this country
naval history during their years Of
Bsrvice, and four of them have partIci-
pRAaa actively III Two years. The
doonaed ships. lndAldlng The famous
ngi Spanish American war squadron
consisting os the Oregon Iowa, Iaadi-
mssa and Massachusetts and The more
ndern but hardly less famous Ken
smcky, KcarsaFge. Alabama, Illinois,
wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri and Maine
uplnpoae one 0f tie most. IL not tic
naeas. powerful batlleship fleets n the
world more than ilfteen years ago.
Eogem0at among the achievements
81 these famous old nghting craft Is
TIE part they played IN the Spanish
Anaglcan war. The Oregon. which
had been commissioned at San Fran
cisco In July, 1895. was Of Mare Is
land navy yard IN 1893 when tho mes
eake was flashed to her commander
shas the United states was ii war with
gpaIn. on March Q. 1893 Ne famous
otd ahIp cleared the U8zIlen Gate
nuund FOR the West Indies On what
proved 10 be the most epoch making
stieahIp voyage ever undertaken.
with decks stripped for action and
@an crews HI their stations the Oregyns
ns0uKls6d around Cape Horn, mn the
cost coast os South America and Rr-
rived ag Key West on May &c, rtady
g0r action, having made the 900 mile
voyage Iii sixty eight cruising days.
Captain C II Clark. the Orsg0n's com
nansling officer. was ordered To take
Sic ahIp To Santiago and there join
she blockadlng squadron which WAS
awaiting battle with the Spanish feet.
Ii the mean time the Iowa the Mas
ehusekts and the indiana. sister
spa OF tho Oregon, were attached 10
he North Atlantic iieot and had al
randy arrived OF Cuba. tho Alassa
ahusetta being part OF the famous ny
fn9 squadron under command Of
Commodore Schiey
The Oregon, already famous
throughout the world for her glorious
and successful voyage 10 join the
American fleet In time for the inlpend-
arR battle, gained greater glory I'M
ING action ON Santiago de- gaba SUM
day. July 5, 1898. when Spanish sea
pcwer was forever hnmbIed and the
liberation of the Philippines and Cuba
assured. In TINT nov historic sen fight
the Oregon ran the Vizcaya, pride Of
sha Spanish fleet, ashore after Kidding
TIE craft with hits from her and Ii
fi1ch guns. and then engaged IN run
ming aRht with the Goien. which sur
rendered after having heen cut on
from the open sea by the Oregon and
forced to head for the beach. a shot
&c the Colon from one Of the Oregon's
sS-lnch gums was the last shot fired
daring the battle.
Both The Indiana and The iowa par
sleipated In the battle at Santiago, the
massachusetts, having gone 70 Guanta-
manno TO coal on the day Of the en-
gagement. The crew on the Massa-
cltuaetta, much disappointed at having
mianed the fight, GAINED revenge the.
next night. when that vessel and tile
old hastleship Texas engaged and sank
she Spanlah cruiser Reina Mercedes
"a that yesael attempted I'd escape
aEaSn the harbor dit Santiago.
The Massachusetts WIS the flagship
0g the naval vessels III charge Of con
gOyIng American troops from Cuba
t0 Porto Rico for the Porto Rican came
paigm. A few years ago the Texas.
later renamed the San Marcos, was
nsed an target for later battieships
80 Tangier Sound IN Chesapeake Bay,
After the Spanish American war the
Oregon returned 10 the west coast.
where the glorious old ship. then IN
the height OF her fame. was received
with tremendous demonstrate She
remained there on duty with the Pa
eilc feet until decade ago, her use
fnlneas gone. she was placed ii re-
serve commission
The Iowa. Massachusetts, and Inlii-
Ana participated III the homecoming
ug The victorious Atlantic fieat after
ne Spanish american var and re-
1aained on duty In home walters FOR
nAany years. After the Oregon had
been placed III reserve the three sister
hAipa were for several years used as
training vessels and conveyed the mid
shipmen from the Naval Academy
abroad each summer for practice
GruIaa. Finally they. too we're moored
TO the docks In nary yards. apparently
60 rust away.
Protect tne Birds Headline. Pros
tecs EN-? Man alive. some birds are.
protected so long in cold storage that