#sailing ship columbia

[adventurelandia]

Sailing Ship Columbia at Disneyland, January 1959

[atdisneyland]

Some pelicans, a sailing ship, and a mansion hiding back there behind the trees.

View from Tom Sawyer Island.

[court-of-angels]

Rivers of America, 1960s

[magicaltrash]

The heroes of custodial, safeguarding the trash cans we love. // Disneyland Resort, Disneyland, Frontierland, Sailing Ship Columbia, 2023 [Source: Jason Schultz / Parkendium. Used by Permission.]

[secretsofdisneyland]

Disneyland Secret #429

There is a boat hierarchy when sailing the waters in Disneyland, to keep everyone and every boat safe. The sailing Ship Columbia has the right of way at all times, followed by the Mark Twain, the raft used to cross the river and finally all canoes. The smaller boats are more manageable and can make the changes in the water needed for the big boats, where the big boats can not necessarily see everything that is in the water.

Photo credit: Disney.

[canadian-gothic1]

A pirate ship docked in Northern British Columbia, Canada.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS CONSTITUTION underway on Columbia River off Wauna, Oregon, en route to Portland, Oregon.

Date: August 2, 1933

University of Oregon Library: 371N3702

[kesara]

Across the Vancouvers [IMG_0753] by Kesara Rathnayake

[mbergen]

Day 6.....Cartagena Columbia, Amazing

Day 6 of 15….Welcome to Cartagena Columbia, in South America, Wow, are we really here? Arrival: 7 am.—Gangway open 7:30 All Aboard—4:30, Departure 5pm After Grand Caymen was another cruising day, so now here we are approaching South America. I woke up early to see us enter the harbor of Cartagena Columbia. It was a beautiful morning with the sun coming up. A little Canoe going out to fish. We…

[adventurelandia]

The Columbia, October 1958

[pennanbrae]

Cloudy skies and a windy day sailing towards Vancouver Island. Music playing is ‘5 Foot 2’.

[court-of-angels]

Family vacation to Disneyland in 1959

[male1971]

Disneyland developed a nighttime spectacular in 1987 that featured 999 ghosts and skeletons from the Haunted Mansion that took over Tom Sawyer Island to entertain crowds along the Rivers of America five years before “Fantasmic”.

Disneyland consultant Don Dorsey discussed the history of the shelved Haunted Mansion-themed nighttime spectacular during the Magic After Dark panel at the D23 fan event at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Concept art developed for the Haunted Mansion-themed nighttime spectacular shows ghosts pouring out of the classic dark ride and flowing over the Rivers of America onto Tom Sawyer Island in a spectral rainbow.

In a spooky castle scene, headless knights hoisted a coffin into the air as ghost brides lingered amid scattered skeletons.

Pirates fought with swords in the masts of a ghostly version of the Sailing Ship Columbia as fireworks exploded near the stern in another scene developed for the nighttime spectacular.

The finale featured the Chernabog villain from “Fantasia” looming overhead as flames engulfed the waters below.

“Everybody thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be amazing,’” Dorsey said during the D23 panel presentation. “Then it got shelved for a period of time for Disneyland’s 35th.”

After the 35th anniversary celebration in 1990, attention turned to another nighttime spectacular involving water and fireworks that ultimately ended up occupying the same spot on Disneyland’s Rivers of America.

“Fantasmic” debuted in 1992

[aimeedaisies]

Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence’s itinerary for their visit to Vancouver and Victoria, Canada on 3rd-5th May 2024

Below is everything they will be doing while on this official royal visit:

✨ Attend the commissioning ceremony for His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Max Bernays and sail overnight in the ship to Esquimalt

✨ When HMCS Max Bernays enters Esquimalt Harbour, they will receive a 21-Gun Salute from the Black Rock naval battery

✨ Visit the Military Family Resource Centre and meet with staff, board members and service members and their families

✨ Pay respects and lay a wreath at the God’s Acre Veteran’s Cemetery

✨ Visit the archives and collections space of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, which was founded with an initial donation by Her Royal Highness’s late father, Prince Philip

✨ Visit the FED Urban Agriculture project to learn about local sustainable food practices

✨ Attend the Battle of the Atlantic Commemorative Service at the British Columbia Legislature and lay a wreath

✨ Visit the Royal Victoria Yacht Club and present prizes at the Spring Dinghies Regatta

✨ Visit the Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association and meet with staff, board members, clients, and their families. They will be given a tour of the stables and present prizes.

✨ Meet with Lieutenant Governor Janet Austin and various British Columbia community leaders

The visit by Princess Anne and Sir Tim is being hosted by the Royal Canadian Navy.

Specific dates and times have not been provided by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor for safety reasons and so the Princess Royal can attend all her commitments while in town.

[ltwilliammowett]

In today's 9th door I have not only one enchanting beauty for you, there are two of them, in a friendly battle - The Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain

Lady Washington, left, and Hawaiian Chieftain in a battle

More about them here:

The Brig Lady Washington ( the original ship) was built around 1780 in Massachusetts as a merchant ship. The sloop was named after Martha Washington, but often appears in contemporary documents simply as Washington. In 1787, the ship was acquired by the investor group Bullfinch, Barrell & Company and, under Captain Robert Gray, accompanied the Columbia under Captain John Kendrick on its voyage around the world from Boston to the North American west coast from September 1787. The two ships were lost in a storm and the Lady Washington reached Oregon a week before the Columbia. She was thus the first US ship to reach the west coast. The ships were involved in the fur trade with the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast and then sailed on to Guangzhou in China. There, the commanders swapped vessels and the Lady Washington remained in the Pacific. Together with the Grace, she reached the island of Kii-Ōshima in 1791, where she established the first contact between the United States and Japan, while the Columbia returned to Boston on a westerly course in August 1790.

Hawaiian Chieftain is the name of a Square Topsail Ketch briefly known as the Spirit of Larinda. Built in 1988 in Lahaina on the island of Maui, the Hawaiian Chieftain is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional design. She is unique with the rig of a 19th-century trading vessel and a modern triple keel, shallow draft hull. Drawing only 5.5 feet (1.7 m), she is highly maneuverable in shallow waters.

[retropopcult]

Disneyland's keel boat Gullywhumper, 1964.

The Gullywhumper faithfully plied the Rivers of America around Tom Sawyer's Island for 42 years until one evening in May 1997, when the boat began to rock side to side. It capsized, dumping a full boatload of passengers into the river, leaving several with minor injuries. The boat was removed for inspection and neither it nor its companion craft the Bertha Mae returned for operation.

Instead, the Gullywhumper returned to Rivers of America as a prop and was moored on Tom Sawyer Island where passengers on the Davy Crockett Canoes, the Sailing Ship Columbia, and the Mark Twain Riverboat could see it while passing. Eventually, hull damage caused the boat to flood and sink, and it was finally removed from Disneyland in April 2009.