This is a Vintage PHOTO from DISNEYLAND of COLUMBIA SAILING SHIP on the RIVERS OF AMERICA in FRONTIERLAND.
The Sailing Ship Columbia, located at the Disneyland park in Anaheim, California, is a full-scale replica of Columbia Rediviva, the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe.
The Columbia has operated in the park for more than fifty years.
Passengers of the ship take a 12-minute trip around the Rivers of America.
At night, the Columbia plays the role of a pirate ship in riverfront performances of the park's nighttime show, Fantasmic!
When Walt Disney decided that the Rivers of America needed more river traffic and wanted another large ship to join the Mark Twain, he asked Joe Fowler, who was Disneyland's construction supervisor and a former naval admiral, to suggest a historic sailing ship for inspiration.
After examining every maritime museum in the country, Fowler recommended the first American sailing ship to go around the world: the Columbia Rediviva.
However, there is only one known picture in existence of the original vessel.
WED researchers used it, along with research materials from the Library of Congress, to design the Columbia.
On December 24, 1998, a cleat used to secure the ship to the dock tore loose, striking park visitors Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his 43-year-old wife Lieu Thuy Vuong in the head, as their son and grandchild and other park visitors looked on.
30-year-old park employee Christine Carpenter of Anaheim, California was also injured.
Dawson was declared brain-dead two days later at UCI Medical Center in Orange, California, when his life support system was disconnected
The Sailing Ship Columbia operates only on the park's busiest days, or when the Mark Twain is not operating.
The attraction usually opens at 11am and closes at dusk.
On evenings when Fantasmic! is being performed, the ship, which plays the role of the Black Pearl in the show, will also close at dusk. In previous incarnations of Fantasmic!, the ship served as Captain Hook's pirate ship.
When the ship is not operating, it is docked at Fowler's Harbor, near the Haunted Mansion attraction.
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