Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Lady Washington

The original Lady Washington was a 90-ton merchant sloop.She became the first American vessel to reach the island of Japan in an unsuccessful attempt to move some unsold rabbit pelts.She was pared up with the other tall ship named the Hawaiian Chieftain.The Lady was rebuild in 1989 in Aberdeen, WA. She has starred in several movies like Star Trek Generations as the brig Enterprise and played as the HMSInterceptor in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. She also provided the basis for the RLS Legacy in the Disney animated feature Treasure Plant.

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