Battleship USS Oregon was lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of

TIME NEVER WAS on the U.S.S. Oregon’s side. She was launched in 1896, in the middle of a remarkable period of torrid innovation and development in the history of warships, a time when ship designs were only good for about ten years before something better came along. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1910b.battleship-oregon.html)