Vessel
Columbia
Columbia: 9 recorded visits to the Californias, 1814 to 1841, calling at Monterey, Bodega, Trinidad, Farallones / Drake's Bay. Flag United States. Every visit cited to its source.
- Flag
- United States
- Recorded span
- 1814 to 1841
- Recorded visits
- 9
- Name as written
- Columbia (8), Columhiw (1)
- Anchorages
- Monterey, Bodega, Trinidad, Farallones / Drake's Bay
- Record status
- reviewed
Recorded visits
NWC schooner Columbia (Capt. Robson; Corney 1st officer) anchored Monterey 23 Nov 1814; landed barter goods by viceregal permission (answer of 16 Dec); 8 deserters; sailed for Bodega 21 Dec
- Published primary source: Corney, Voyages in the Northern Pacific (1896), ch. III
Sources disagree: registry lists Columbia as usa; Corney identifies her as the British NWC schooner
Columbia at Bodega 24-26 Dec 1814; comandante Kuskov refused residence pending Baranov's leave; free provisions given; sailed for Hawaii
- Published primary source: Corney, Voyages in the Northern Pacific (1896), ch. III
Dictamen prohibiting commerce with English ships re the English schooner *Columbia* at Monterey & the North West Company
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 12, doc 474 (scan n397–n399)
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 25, doc 509 (scan n387): [doc-id remapped +463 after the 2026-07-28 ca25 renumber]
- Bancroft, History of California: Bancroft HoC II narrates this vessel in 1815 (Monterey)
FINAL DOC — NWC schooner *Columbia* (2nd visit): Capt. John Jennings, supercargo Agustín Belhune[?]; the same ship that
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 12, doc 481 (scan n408–n410)
- Bancroft, History of California: Bancroft HoC II narrates this vessel in 1815 (Monterey)
Diciembre 29 (pp.460-63, 4 doc): avisa haber pasado á S.n Francisco y haber dado órdenes p.a reparo de fortificación; re
[Ogden itinerary] Columbia, 1817: Trinidad 1817
- Ogden, The California Sea Otter Trade: Ogden 1941, appendix s.v. 'Columbia, 1817'
[Ogden itinerary] Columbia, 1817: Bodega 1817-08-08
- Ogden, The California Sea Otter Trade: Ogden 1941, appendix s.v. 'Columbia, 1817'
Columbia at the Farallones (~30 Russians/Kodiaks in a RAC sealing camp, watered by skin-boat from Bodega) then Drake's Bay, ~19-20 Aug 1817
- Published primary source: Corney, Voyages in the Northern Pacific (1896), ch. IX
[Bancroft list 1841-5] Columhiw: mexico 55t Manuel Turincio master; Monterey
- Bancroft, History of California, vessel lists: Bancroft, HoC IV, List of vessels 1841-5
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