Columbia Rediviva
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Columbia Rediviva |
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| Career | |
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| Built: | 1787 |
| Launched: | Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Fate: | Decommissioned October 15, 1806, and salvaged |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 213 tons |
| Length: | 83 feet, 6 inches |
| Beam: | 24 feet, 2 inches |
| Draught: | 11 feet |
| Type: | sloop |
| Hull: | Wood |
| Propulsion: | sail - three-masted ship (foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast) |
| Speed: | N/A |
| Range: | N/A |
| Complement: | 16-18 minimum and 30-31 maximum |
Columbia Rediviva was privately owned sloop under Captain Robert Gray. The ship is usually known in history simply as the Columbia, which was sent to the Pacific Northwest to trade for fur. The ship is named for one of the three patron saints of Ireland, St. Columb, or St. Columba, a great Irish sailor who had the gumption to found a monastery on the island of Iona in Scotland in the sixth century A.D. As the ship was privately owned, it is not designated USS. In 1792 Captain Gray discovered the Columbia River and named it after the ship. In 1790 it became the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. The ship was tender by the Lady Washington during its voyage.
The ship was originally built in 1773 by James Briggs at Hobart’s Landing on North River, in Norwell, Massachusetts and named simply the Columbia.[1] The ship was then rebuilt in 1787, this is where the rediviva comes from as this means revived.
The ship was decommissioned and salvaged in 1806. A replica of Lady Washington and is located at Grays Harbor Historical Seaport in Aberdeen, Washington.
[edit] Trivia
- In 1956, a full-scale replica of the ship, Sailing Ship Columbia opened as an attraction at Disneyland. The ship takes riders around the Rivers of America.
- The name was re-used by the Space Shuttle Columbia by NASA.
[edit] First mates
- Joseph Ingraham, under the command of Gray. In 1790 captain of Hope that competed with the Columbia in the fur trade.[2]
[edit] Reference
- ^ Jacobs, Melvin C. (1938). Winning Oregon: A Study of An Expansionist Movement. The Caxton Printers, Ltd.. 77.
- ^ Hittell, Theodore Henry (1885). History of California. Occidental publishing co: v. 3-4:.
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Early History of Oregon (1500-1806) |
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| Topics |
Fur trade · Lady Washington · Columbia Rediviva · Age of Discovery |
| Events |
Lewis and Clark Expedition · Entering of the Columbia River by Robert Gray |
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| People |
William Clark · Meriwether Lewis · Sir Francis Drake · William Robert Broughton · Sacagawea · Captain James Cook · Toussaint Charbonneau · George Vancouver · Robert Gray |
| Oregon History |
Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History |
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