Lady Washington

Lady Washington is the name of two American sailing ships.

The original from 1780

The Lady Washington was built around 1780 in Massachusetts as a merchant ship. The sloop was named after Martha Washington, but also frequently appeared simply as "Washington" in contemporary documents to. 1787, the ship of the investor group Bullfinch, Barrell & Company was purchased and accompanied under Captain Robert Gray Columbia under Captain John Kendrick on their journey around the world from Boston to the North American west coast from September 1787. Both ships were lost in a storm and the Lady Washington Oregon reached a week before the Columbia and was thus the first American ship on the west coast. The ships were active in the fur and fur trade with the natives of the coast of the Pacific Northwest and then sailed to Canton in China. There, the commanders exchanged the vehicles and the Lady Washington remained in the Pacific during the Columbia headed west in August 1790 again reached Boston. Apparently sold John Kendrick, the Lady Washington to itself without depending on the money payable to the shipowner. Around 1790 it became the brig umgeriggt.Was after Kendricks accidental death in 1794 happened to her is not documented. The only illustration of the ship is a watercolor. It shows a simple New England Sloop with a topsail and a non-typical for these vehicles Galion. Reconstructed mass give a displacement of 90 tn.l., a length between perpendiculars of 58 ' feet ( = 17.68 m) and an overall length of 74' feet ( = 22.56 m).

The replica 1989

1989, a replica of the Lady Washington was in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, built, which became the " ship of state " of the state of Washington. Today it is used mainly for the teaching of historical trade and the lives of seafarers and the training of ship officers.

Every now and then it is also used for movies:

  • The HMS Interceptor in Pirates of the Caribbean
  • The brig Enterprise in Star Trek: Generations
  • In the animated film Treasure Planet is the basis for the RLS Legacy
  • In Once Upon a Time - Once upon a time ... it's Captain Hook's Jolly Roger
Draft (hull) Sloop-of-war Robert Gray (sea captain) North American fur trade Watercolor painting Beakhead Aberdeen (Washington) Grays Harbor County, Washington Washington (state) Ryan Lewis
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