Vancouver (schooner)

In 1826 the Vancouver, the first vessel built on the Columbia,-the Dolly was shipped from the East in sections, was launched at Vancouver. She was a two-masted schooner of about eighty-five tons burden and was constructed by carpenters brought from the Orkney Islands. She made several successful trading voyages to the north, but was finally wrecked in 1832 on the northern shore of Queen Charlotte's Island. E. W. Wright, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961., p. 13.

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