Tall Ships
Crescent City, CA.
The Lady Washington, which was launched in 1750 and served as a Privateer during the Revolutionary War.
In 1790 the Lady W, along with the Columbia Rediviva, sailed around Cape Horn to the Pacific
Northwest where it was instrumental in establishing trade between New England, the Pacific Northwest,
and the Orient. Her presence helped to establish a basis for an American territorial claim to what would
one day become the states of Oregon and Washington.
The Hawaiian Chieftain is a replica of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century.
Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer's ships used in the expeditions of the late
eighteenth century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Built of steel in Hawaii in 1988,
she is a 103-foot-long topsail ketch. Recently purchased by the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority
in Aberdeen, Wash., the Chieftain joins the Lady Washington, the other GHHSA vessel, in educational cruises
and ambassadorial visits along the west coast.
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