Columbia (barque)
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image= | Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name= Columbia | Ship owner= Hudson's Bay Company | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= Green, Wigram & Green, Blackwall | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 8 July 1835[http://www.historic-shipping.co.uk/robwigram/colum%2035.html] Historic Shipping: Columbia. | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Sold in 1850 and last listed 1851 | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Ship class= | Ship tons burthen= 288{{small|{{frac|64|94}}}}, or 303{{small|{{frac|30|94}}}},[https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/ships_histories/columbia.pdf Archives of Manitoba: Hudson’s Bay Company Archives – Ships’ Histories: Columbia.] or 309 (bm) | Ship length={{cvt|103|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam={{cvt|25|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | Ship depth={{cvt|11|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth= | Ship propulsion= | Ship sail plan= Barque{{sfnp|Beattie|2003|p=409}} | Ship complement=22, or 24 | Ship armament=6 guns | Ship notes= Mainly of English Oak, also African Oak and English Elm; masts of Red Pine. }} |
Columbia was a barque launched in 1835 in London for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). She served in the service of the Columbia District of the HBC on the Columbia River and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s.[https://archive.org/stream/historyofbritish00begguoft/historyofbritish00begguoft_djvu.txt British Columbia: From the Earliest Times to the Present, Alexander Begg, p. 139]
Columbia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1836 with Darbey, master, and Hudson's Bay Company, owner.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065537964?urlappend=%3Bseq=111 LR (1836), seq.№C637.]
On her maiden voyage, in 1835, she served as escort to the Beaver. Her voyages included the coast of California and the Sandwich Islands. She made six voyages out of London in all, and spent part of 1846–1847 in Fort Victoria, British Columbia. Columbia was sold in 1850.{{sfnp|Beattie|2003|p=409}}
Various letters addressed to sailors serving aboard the barque Columbia survive in the book Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57.{{sfnp|Beattie|2003|p=208}}
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- {{cite book | title=Undelivered letters to Hudson's Bay Company men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830 - 57 | publisher=University of British Columbia Press | last=Beattie |first=Judith Hudson | year=2003 | location=Vancouver, BC | isbn=978-0-7748-0974-0}}
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