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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
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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In the speal on the Columbia, they say it is first US ship to circumnavigate the globe, but I think it's the first US Navy ship to circumnavigate (in 1838). According to the state of Utah, both are
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"... WHEREAS, the space shuttle Columbia was named after the Boston,
Massachusetts-based sloop captained by American Robert Gray, who on May 11, 1792
maneuvered the Columbia past the dangerous sandbar at the mouth of a river extending more
that 1,000 miles through what is today south-eastern British Columbia, Canada, and the
Washington-Oregon border, which river now bears the ship's name;
WHEREAS, this same 18th century sailing vessel became the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe;
WHEREAS, the first United States Navy Ship to circle the globe also bore the name Columbia"