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You know, I have a very solid memory that the plaque at the loading dock says that the ship is designed after the U.S.S. Columbia rather than Robert Gray's ship (both circumanvigated the globe, Gray's was the first to do it under U.S. flag and the Navy's was the first U.S. Navy ship to do it) but in poking around the usual sources I find that they all say I'm wrong.
Oh well. However, most of them (including Dave Smith in Disney A to Z) also say that the Columbia (whichever one) was the first ship to circumnaviate the globe, which is also wrong. That honor goes to the Victoria, the only one of Magellan's original five vessal fleet to make it all the way around the world in 1521.
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