square-hulled

Updated: June 20, 2025

But for this mishap Vancouver might have discovered the Columbia, and England might have made good her claim to the territory which is now Oregon and Washington and Idaho. Vancouver's ships were gliding into the Strait of Juan de Fuca when they met a square-hulled, trim little trader under the flag of the United States. It was the Columbia, commanded by Robert Gray.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

Vancouver was gliding into the Straits of Fuca when the slender colors of a far ship floated above the blue horizon outward bound. Another wave-roll, and the flag was seen to be above full-blown sails and a square-hulled, trim little trader of America. At six in the morning of April 29, the American saluted with a cannon-shot.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward