Lady Washington Model Sailing Ship
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The original Lady Washington was a 90-ton merchant sloop. She sailed around
Cape Horn and participated in the fur and pelt trade with the coastal Native
Americans in the Pacific Northwest and in tea and porcelain across the Pacific
in China.
She was captained originally by Robert Gray, and later by John Kendrick, former
captain of her larger sailing partner, the Columbia Rediviva (Kendrick insisted
he and Gray switch vessels mid-journey). Under the command of Kendrick, she
was refitted as a brig (she was formerly a sloop). She became the first American
vessel to reach the island of Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to move some
unsold pelts. The Lady remained in the Pacific trade and eventually foundered
in the Philippines in 1798.
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