Columbia Rediviva (commonly known as the Columbia) was a privately owned ship

Full rigged ship

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 under the command of John Kendrick, along with Captain Robert Gray, best known for going to the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

  for the maritime fur trade

Maritime Fur Trade

The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese...

. The "Rediviva" (Latin "revived") was added to her name upon a rebuilding in 1787. Since Columbia was privately owned, she did not carry the prefix designation "USS

United States Navy ships

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Early authorities claim the ship was built in 1773 by James Briggs

James Briggs

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 at Hobart’s Landing on North River, in Norwell, Massachusetts

Norwell, Massachusetts

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 and named Columbia.
Later historians say she was built in Plymouth, Massachusetts  in 1787.
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

Lady Washington

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which served as tender

Ship's tender

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 for the Columbia. In 1792 Captain Gray entered

Gray sails the Columbia River

In May of 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded European to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the Columbia Rediviva, a privately owned ship, was eventually used as a basis for the United States' claim on the Pacific...

 the Columbia River

Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

 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

Aberdeen, Washington

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.

Trivia

• In 1958, a full-scale replica of the ship, Sailing Ship Columbia
  Sailing Ship Columbia
  The Sailing Ship Columbia, located at the Disneyland park in Anaheim, California, is a full-scale replica of Columbia Rediviva, the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. Its passengers embark on a scenic, 12-minute journey around the Rivers of America...
  
  , opened as an attraction at Disneyland. The ship takes riders around the Rivers of America
  Rivers of America (Disney)
  The Rivers of America is an artificial river found in the Frontierland district of the Magic Kingdom-classed Disney theme parks around the world. The first river was built in Disneyland when the park opened in 1955. It surrounds Tom Sawyer Island, which can be reached by rafts traveling from the...
  
  . This replica also plays a prominent role in the night time show Fantasmic, although it is supposed to be Captain Hook
  Captain Hook
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  's ship.
• The name was used for the command module of Apollo 11
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  .
• The name was re-used for the Space Shuttle Columbia
  Space Shuttle Columbia
  Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew...
  
   by NASA
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  .

First mates

• Joseph Ingraham
  Joseph Ingraham
  Joseph Ingraham was an American sailor and Maritime Fur Trader who discovered several islands of the Marquesas Islands while on his way to trade along the West Coast of North America...
  
  , under the command of Kendrick. In 1790 he was captain of Hope
  Hope (ship)
  The Hope was an American brig class merchant ship involved in the Maritime Fur Trade along the northwest coast of North America and discovery in the Pacific Ocean...
  
  that competed with the Columbia in the fur trade.
• Robert Haswell
  Robert Haswell
  Robert Haswell was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe...
  
  , under the command of Gray in 1791–93 during the second voyage to the Pacific Northwest.

Further reading

• Log of the Columbia, 1790-1792. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 53, (Oct., 1919 - Jun., 1920).

External links

• Columbia Rediviva