COLUMBIA REDIVIVA


'''Columbia Rediviva''' (commonly known as the ''Columbia'') was a privately owned sloop under Captain Robert Gray, best known for going to the Pacific Northwest for the fur trade. The ship is named for one of the three patron saints of Ireland, St. Columb, or St. Columba, a great Irish sailor who founded a monastery on the island of Iona in Scotland in the sixth century A.D. The "Rediviva" (''Latin'' "revived") was added to her name upon a rebuilding in 1787. Since ''Columbia'' was privately owned, she does not carry the prefix designation "USS".
The ship was built in 1773 by James Briggs at Hobart’s Landing on North River, in Norwell, Massachusetts and named ''Columbia''.[1]
In 1790 she became the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. During the first part of this voyage she was accompanied by the ''Lady Washington'' which served as tender for the ''Columbia''. In 1792 Captain Gray discovered the Columbia River and named it after the ship.
The ship was decommissioned and salvaged in 1806. A replica of ''Lady Washington'' is located at Grays Harbor Historical Seaport in Aberdeen, Washington.[2]
The American flag that circumnavigated the globe with Captain Gray on the Columbia.


Contents
Trivia
First mates
References
External links

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 for the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' by NASA.[3]

First mates



★ Joseph Ingraham, under the command of Gray. In 1790 he was captain of ''Hope'' that competed with the ''Columbia'' in the fur trade.[4]

★ Robert Haswell, under the command of Gray in 1791-1793 during the second voyage to the Pacific Northwest.[5]

References


1. Winning Oregon: A Study of An Expansionist Movement, , Melvin C., Jacobs, The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1938, 77

2. Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
3. NASA: Space Shuttle Overview: Columbia
4. History of California, , Theodore Henry, Hittell, Occidental publishing co: v. 3-4:, ,

5. Voyages of the 'Columbia' to the Northwest Coast 1787-1790 and 1790-1793, , Frederic W., Howay, Massachusetts Historical Society, ,

External links



★ Columbia Rediviva

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