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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.
- July 1806 (aged 51), Atlantic Ocean
- Martha
- Merchant Sea-Captain, Explorer
- May 10, 1755, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Mar 8, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 its relevance to the claim was disputed ...
- May 11 to 20, 1792
- Gray, crew of Columbia Rediviva
Written by. William L. Lang. Last updated. April 4, 2023. 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 docum…
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.
Jan 13, 2003 · Gray Enters Big River. Less than two weeks later, American Robert Gray proved Heceta right and Vancouver wrong when he succeeded in entering the Columbia. Gray, a Rhode Island born captain in the employ of a consortium of Boston merchants, was on his second voyage to the Northwest in search of sea otter and other furs.
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.