Columbia (barque)

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.^[5]

History
United Kingdom
Name	Columbia
Owner	Hudson's Bay Company
Builder	Green, Wigram & Green, Blackwall
Launched	8 July 1835[1]
Fate	Sold in 1850 and last listed 1851
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen	28864⁄94,[1] or 30330⁄94,[2] or 309[3] (bm)
Length	103 ft 0 in (31.39 m)
Beam	25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Depth	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail plan	Barque[4]
Complement	22, or 24
Armament	6 guns
Notes	Mainly of English Oak, also African Oak and English Elm; masts of Red Pine.

Columbia first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1836 with Darbey, master, and Hudson's Bay Company, owner.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[2][6]

See also

• List of ships in British Columbia

Citations

1. Historic Shipping: Columbia.
2. Archives of Manitoba: Hudson’s Bay Company Archives – Ships’ Histories: Columbia.
3. LR (1836), seq.№C637.
4. Beattie (2003), p. 409.
5. British Columbia: From the Earliest Times to the Present, Alexander Begg, p. 139
6. Beattie (2003), p. 208.

References

• Beattie, Judith Hudson (2003). Undelivered letters to Hudson's Bay Company men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830 - 57. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0974-0.