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OREGON NAVAL MILITIA MARCHING AT ASTORIA, 1898 Oregon once had its own navy? Well, not exactly, but there was a distinct state naval organization for several years. A number of states had formed their own navies during the American Revolution, and several Confederate states imitated that precedent during the Civil War. The Oregon force, however, was a "naval militia," originally organized as part of the Oregon National Guard in 1898, when war broke out with Spain. A number of other coastal states also had formed such organizations, ostensibly for coastal defense, because the U.S. Navy then had no reserve organization to provide for quick expansion in time of war.
A number of Portland citizens petitioned the governor, in April of 1898, to form a naval battalion as part of the National Guard. Under authority of existing law, two companies were organized at Portland and one in Astoria, each consisting of thirty-nine enlisted men and four officers (elected by the men!). Funds were allocated for purchase of uniforms, weapons, and equipment, but the battalion was not called into federal service during the brief Spanish-American War. This had an adverse impact on the unit's morale and, by the time it was reorganized into three divisions in May 1899, the battalion's strength had (continued on page 3}
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT THE MUSEUM
NEW OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES
Little more than two months remain before Christmas and it is time, like it or not, to start thinking about all that shopping you have to do. Please remember that the Museum's shop stocks a wide variety of decorative, entertaining, and functional gifts with a nautical flavor- and that our members are entitled to a ten-percent discount on purchases.
Newly elected trustees and officers of the Board of Trustees were introduced to some 250 members who attended the Museum's annual meeting and reception on September 28th. Roland T. Fisher, a resident of Lake Oswego and Seaside, is the new president of the Board of Trustees. He recently retired as a director and the corporate representative for government and public affairs of Western Transportation Company. He was president of Waterway Terminals until that firm merged with Western Transportation. Mr. Fisher is also actively involved with several other non-profit organizations. He succeeds John S. McGowan, who has served as the Museum's president for two years. Peter J. Brix, Chairman of Knappton Corporation, succeeded Roland Fisher as the Museum's vice president. Eugene Lowe of Seaside was re-elected secretary, and Edith Henningsgaard, Mayor of Astoria, was re-elected treasurer. Eight new trustees have been elected to the 29-member Board of Trustees: Jack R. Dant, Chairman of the Board of States Steamship Co.; Alan Green, Jr., ex-Chairman of the U .S. Maritime Commission; Gene Sause, President of Gene Sause & Co.; and Admiral J.G. Williams, Jr., U.S.N . (Retired) . Peter Brix, Edith Henningsgaard, John R. Brooke, a Portland attorney, and Blake Hering, President of Atlas Steamship Co., were re-elected. The retiring trustees are Walter Gadsby, Donald E. Hughes, and Jack L. Patterson , all of Portland.
AUTUMN TOUR SERIES On November 9th the Museum will conclude its highly successful fall series of tours with an excursion to the Seattle waterfront. The first two outings were a coastal birdwatching workshop and "Northwest Sentinels," a tour of present and former light stations around the mouth of the Columbia. The latter included a boat trip for close looks at the "super buoy" that replaced the Columbia River lightship and the old Tillamook Rock Lighthouse , as well as bus transportation to the operating lighthouses at Cape Disappointment and North Head, Washington. Both of these previous tours proved so popular that all available reservations were snapped up within a few days. The Seattle tour will include round-trip transportation from Astoria by charter bus, lunch in Olympia, a guided tour of the Seattle waterfront aboard the historic Puget Sound passenger steamer Virginia V, and dinner at a restaurant beside Lake Washington. The Virginia Vis 125 feet long and was built in 1922, but her fascinating triple-expansion steam engine dates from 1898. Museum Trustee Tom Dyer, a resident of Seattle, will provide commentary for the 3½-hour cruise along the deep-water port facilities at Elliott Bay, the fishing fleet at Shilshole Bay, and through the Ship Canal to Lake Union and Lake Washington. As this goes to press, one bus has already been filled, but it appears that a few seats might still be available on a second bus when this reaches you. The cost is $95.00 each for members and $120.00 for others. Call (503) 325-2323 to request reservations . Due to the popularity of the fall tours, it is intended to offer another series next spring, but details of dates and subjects are not yet available. Watch for future announcements!
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"CAPTAIN MARITIME'S TREASURE HUNT" That is the colorful title of a guide booklet about the Museum written by and for school children as a result of collaboration between the Museum and the Astoria School District in a summer program called OPUS (Opportunities and Projects for Unique Studies). Twelve local students in the fourth through sixth grades researched and wrote the booklet, which will serve as a guide to our galleries for school tours of third to fifth graders. It contains questions and clues regarding 25 exhibits, as well as maritime puzzles and drawings. The booklet became available in September.
"BIRDS OF THE NORTHWEST"
Taking a close look at Tillamook Rock Lighthouse during "Northwest Sentinels" tour
A temporary exhibit of artwork portraying Northwest birds formally opened in conjunction with the Museum's annual meeting and reception on September 28th. It consists of nineteen exquisite painted wood sculptures, twelve watercolors and drawings, and a display explaining the artist's process of carving. The artist is Del Smith, who resides at Cascade Head on the Oregon coast. He has been carving birds for fifteen years, having been attracted to the subject by a study of antique waterfowl decoys. This very worthwhile exhibit will remain on display in the Museum until the end of the year. Do try to see it, if you were unable to attend the annual meeting!
THE OREGON NAVAL MILITIA (continued)
Oregon Naval Militia unit at Astoria, circa 1898
fallen to only sixty-nine men. Reports of inspections revealed that weapons were also in poor condition. Although four boats were lent to the battalion by the Navy and annual training cruises aboard warships were provided, there was little improvement in strength. Therefore, the officers were discharged and the men transferred to the Guard's ordinary companies in 1902. Since California and Washington had both continued naval militia programs, the Navy wished to encourage a renewed effort by Oregon and offered the loan of a fully equipped warship to the state for training purposes. In 1910 the Oregon Naval Reserve was created as an adjunct of the National Guard by proclamation of Acting Governor Bowerman. It was to consist of not more than ten divisions, each to number at least twenty men, with the officers still to be elected by the men. A bill passed by the legislature the next year confirmed this establishment and specified that the state adjutant general would stand in the same relationship to the Navy Department with respect to the Naval Reserve as he already did to the War Department concerning the National Guard. The legislators also appropriated funds for the naval militia and accepted the loan of a warship from the Navy. Meanwhile, the officers squabbled among themselves, resulting in a court of inquiry which found, " .. .there existed no unity of action among the officers of the Naval Reserve; no respect for authority; no discipline; no harmony of purpose; and that said officers were divided into factions and their usefulness destroyed by dissension, jealousies and strife." Therefore, the Oregon Naval Reserve was disbanded on May 19, 1911 and reconstituted on the following day with new, appointed officers. As promised by the Navy, the U.S.S. Boston was assigned to the Oregon Naval Reserve as training ship in June of 1911. This was an old protected cruiser which had been launched in
1884 as part of the Navy's first group of steel warships. She had fought in Dewey's squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, but was thoroughly obsolete as a fighting ship by 1911. The Boston was still useful, however, for drills and short training cruises. The Navy also provided annual training cruises aboard active warships. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 threatened the possibility of U.S. involvement, so training of Oregon's naval militia intensified. Its strength then stood at about 200 men. In December of that year, the Navy assigned a second warship to Oregon. This was the torpedo boat Goldsborough, which had been launched by Wolff & Zwicker at Portland in 1899. She was a vessel of legendary bad luck; her repeated breakdowns while trying to complete her trials helped drive her builders into financial ruin, and she never did meet her contract specifications. Despite a rebuilding in 1903, the Goldsborough remained a jinxed ship and was not commissioned until 1908. It was probably a relief to the Navy to turn her over to the Oregon militia, who used her mainly for cruises on the Columbia.
The U .S.S. Boston at Portland
The torpedo boat Goldsborough on the Columbia
Meanwhile, during a cruise aboard the U .S.S. Albany in 1915, the Oregon Naval Reserve engaged in four days of target practice and earned commendations for scoring better than 87 percent of direct hits. In 1915 an attempt was made to form an aeronautical branch of the Oregon Naval Reserve by borrowing an airplane from two of its members. This experiment seems to have petered out, after an initial surge of enthusiasm, because the Navy failed to provide any additional aircraft. A deadly accident occurred aboard the Boston while firing a salute on July 4th in 1916. A defective round misfired in a six-pounder gun, killing Coxswain V.B. Burnell and wounding a seaman. During this same year, the aging Boston was replaced by the cruiser Marblehead, which had been launched in 1892. An interesting detail about the Marblehead's service in the militia is the fact that her crew included a detachment of 25 "marines" assigned from the National Guard. Unrestricted submarine warfare and other repugnant actions by Germany finally prompted the United States to declare war on April 6, 1917. The Navy immediately recalled the Marblehead and Goldsborough for active service, while the men of the Oregon Naval Reserve reported to the Puget Sound Navy Yard for induction into federal service. A second battalion was quickly raised and sent to a naval training camp at the University of Washington. Paradoxically, the war eventually led to the demise of the Oregon Naval Reserve. The militia entered federal service together, but were not kept together as a unit (although a great many of them were assigned to the battleship
The U.S. cruiser Marblehead
Daniel Hannula, Oregon Naval Militia
South Dakota}. In 1918 Congress transferred all the naval militia then on active duty to the new U.S. Naval Reserve, which was to absorb future efforts. Meanwhile, fear of possible sabotage caused Governor Withycombe to create a third battalion of naval militia, after the first two entered federal service. This battalion patrolled the harbors of Portland and Astoria, guarded merchant vessels of the U.S. Shipping Board while in port, handled recruiting for the merchant marine, and conducted naval funerals in the state. In 1918 it also began manning U.S. Shipping Board vessels in both Oregon and Washington. The Navy Department declined to continue recognition and co-operation with purely state organizations after the creation of a national naval reserve. Since it could obtain no replacements for the Marblehead and Goldsborough and most of its personnel had been taken into the U.S. Naval Reserve, the Oregon Naval Reserve was left with little purpose when the war ended. A small nautical school was maintained in Portland to conduct elementary training, using the launch Penguin. Otherwise, there remained a mass of paperwork relating to wartime pay, allotments, insurance, etc .; when this was wound up, Adjutant General White recommended the abolition of the Oregon Naval Reserve. It was officially disbanded on December 8, 1921, having trained some 750 of the 3,000 Oregonians who served in the Navy during World War I. The Editor wishes to acknowledge his heavy dependence in preparation of this article on the monograph The Oregon Guard's "Navy," by Colone/John Mewha, ONGR.
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HISTORIC BUMBLE BEE SEAFOODS RECORDS RETURN TO ASTORIA Bumble Bee Seafoods, recently purchased by a group of its executives from Castle & Cooke, Ltd., donated a large group of old corporate records to the Museum in August. The new owners felt that the records should be returned to Astoria, where the company originated, from the current headquarters in San Diego. Mr. James T. McCarthy, Executive Vice President for Resources & Development, Bumble Bee Seafoods, made the formal presentation at the Museum on August 16th. The gift was accepted by John T. McGowan, then President of the Maritime Museum's Board of Trustees, who is a retired president of Bumble Bee. The donation consists of fourteen filing cabinets and
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several large boxes full of all sorts of ledgers, correspondence, documents, etc., ranging in date from 1888 to 1982. This is a very significant acquisition for the Museum's archival collections, since Bumble Bee is the direct descendant of the Columbia River Packers Association, founded at Astoria in 1899 by A.B. Hammond through consolidation of eight previously independent companies. It became, therefore, much the largest of the Columbia River's salmon canning concerns and it also played an important part in the extension of the canning industry to Alaska early in this century. The records will be of great value to historians, but will not be accessible until the lengthy task of inventory and processing can be completed.
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