& N service, Oregon served alongside Columbia, which made the first commercial use of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb.

[1] On 26 December 1889 she sank Clan McKenzie in a collision in snow on the Columbia River at Coffee Rock 47 miles (76 km) above Astoria, Oregon.

Shortly after the collision, the bottom of the vessel tore open and water began flooding the ship.

After crew members began boarding the lifeboats without orders, Captain Horace E. Soule threatened to shoot any man attempting to steal one.

This led to the crew obeying all further orders and a small party was sent off in a lifeboat to report the disaster in Valdez, Alaska.

When the report of Oregon's wreck reached Valdez, many ships set out to rescue the passengers and crew.

Remarkably, all 110 remaining people on board Oregon were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Columbine.