Lady Washington

[BosnMate]

Went over to the coast today. The were three sailing vessels in the Port of Coos Bay, one of them being the Brig Lady Washington, you can see the masts of the other two aft of her. She is a full scale replica of the original Lady Washington, which in 1788 was the first American flagged vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America. You can see in my picture that there were crowds of people going aboard, but I wasn't one of them.
[h=3]LADY WASHINGTON STATISTICS[/h]

Length on deck: 67 feet
Length on the waterline: 72 feet
Overall length: 112 feet
Draft (Depth): 11 feet
Beam (Width): 22 feet
Mast height: 89 feet
Displacement: 210 tons
Gross tonnage: 99 tons
Total sail area: 4,442 square feet
Rigging: Approximately six miles
Guns: Two three pounder; two swivels aft
Crew compliment: 12
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Anyhow, click on the link, there is lots more info on the brig, along with a picture of her under full sail.
Lady Washington | Grays Harbor Historical Seaport

 

[tamrock]

I can only imagine what the west coast would have been like some 220 year's ago? Not a lot of maritime history here in Colorado. Just some early row boats on Grand Lake in the 1880s... After I stopped at the museum of the river boat wreak Bertrand along the Missouri River, I did some online reading about the early steam boats that penetrated far west of the Mississippi as they could in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Some even as far as the Yellowstone river in Montana, which I never knew a large steam power vessel could go. Must have been a real adventure back then.