Lady Washington

The Lady Washington made port in Pasco, Washington, in August, 2015.... more

by Charles Robinson

Title

Lady Washington

Artist

Charles Robinson

Medium

Photograph

Description

The Lady Washington made port in Pasco, Washington, in August, 2015.

Description taken from the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority website:

The Lady Washington was originally commissioned as a 90-ton sloop with one mast. As part of the Columbia Expedition, She left the Boston Harbor on October 1, 1787. She sailed around Cape Horn and participated in the Maritime Fur Trade with the coastal Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest and in tea and porcelain across the Pacific in China. She was the first American-flagged vessel to round Cape Horn. She was the first recorded vessel to make landfall on the Oregon coast near Tillamook, Oregon.

She was captained by Robert Gray and later by John Kendrick. Under the command of Kendrick, she was refitted as a brigantine with two masts in 1790-1791 while in Macao, China.

The Washington became the first American vessel to reach Japan and remained in the Pacific trade. She eventually foundered in the Philippines in 1797 and was lost at the mouth of the Mestizo River, near Vigan, NW Luzon in July 1797.

The full scale replica was built in Aberdeen, Washington for the1989 Washington State Centennial Celebration. She is owned and operated by a professional and volunteer crew by the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority and travels up and down the Pacific coast reaching out to sailors and and landlubbers with a taste of the romance of the sea. She has been featured in various films, most notably Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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August 6th, 2015