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Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition. In May 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded American to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the privately owned Columbia Rediviva, was eventually used as a basis for the United States ' claim on the Pacific Northwest, although ...
- May 11 to 20, 1792
- Gray, crew of Columbia Rediviva
Mar 8, 2024 · summer 1806, at sea near eastern U.S. coast (aged 50) Robert Gray (born May 10, 1755, Tiverton, R.I.—died summer 1806, at sea near eastern U.S. coast) was the captain of the first U.S. ship to circumnavigate the globe and explorer of the Columbia River. Gray went to sea at an early age, and after serving in the Continental Navy during the ...
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Jan 13, 2003 · On May 11, 1792, American fur trader Robert Gray (1755-1806) enters the major river of the Pacific Northwest in his ship the Columbia Rediviva. Indian peoples have lived and navigated along Wimahl (" Captain Robert Gray becomes the first non-Indian navigator to enter the Columbia River, which he later names, on May 11, 1792.
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Robert Gray (1755–1806) On May 11, 1792, Robert Gray, the first American to circumnavigate the world (1787-1790), sailed the Columbia Rediviva into the Columbia River, the first documented ship to anchor in the river’s broad estuary. He named the river “Columbia’s river” after his ship and drew a sketch map of the river mouth.
Jan 13, 2003 · Captain Robert Gray (1755-1806), an American in search of furs, soon finds the Columbia River, which Vancouver, like all prior European navigators, has missed, thus giving the young United States its primary claim to the lands of the Pacific Northwest.
NPS. Gray’s Harbor, the large estuarine bay about 45 miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River, is named in recognition of Captain Robert Gray, the first Euro-American to enter it on May 7, 1792. Gray originally named the bay Bullfinch Harbor. He also named the mighty Columbia River after his ship, SS Columbia Rediviva.
Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – c. July 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region. In the course of those voyages, Gray explored portions of ...
