Seattle Sam
10-17-2006, 01:38 AM
Went to Astoria, OR this weekend, and while we were there we visited the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Pretty interesting museum with lots of stories about sea rescues from the Columbia Bar (where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean), which because of its volume of water is consistently the worst stretch of stormy water anywhere in the world.
Part of the museum is a tour of the Lightship Columbia, which used to anchor at the bar and provide a beacon for incoming ships to sit and wait for pilots to take them from the ocean into the river -
COLUMBIA LIGHTSHIP (http://www.rudyalicelighthouse.net/NWLts/LV604/LV604.htm)
Below decks, in the crew's quarters, I noticed that many of the lockers were decorated on the inside with various stickers, such as "Danger - High Voltage" and the like. Here are a couple pictures of one of the lockers aboard the Columbia, obviously belonging to a performance fan -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/sbesser/astoria031.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/sbesser/astoria033.jpg
Part of the museum is a tour of the Lightship Columbia, which used to anchor at the bar and provide a beacon for incoming ships to sit and wait for pilots to take them from the ocean into the river -
COLUMBIA LIGHTSHIP (http://www.rudyalicelighthouse.net/NWLts/LV604/LV604.htm)
Below decks, in the crew's quarters, I noticed that many of the lockers were decorated on the inside with various stickers, such as "Danger - High Voltage" and the like. Here are a couple pictures of one of the lockers aboard the Columbia, obviously belonging to a performance fan -
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/sbesser/astoria031.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/sbesser/astoria033.jpg