The ships will more at The Dalles Marina and take advantage of The Dalles Yacht Club facilities. No public availability is scheduled during the stopover, though the ships will be visible from public areas of the marina. The ships will return to The Dalles June 6 and 7, offering tours, battle sails and adventure sails.

The new Lady Washington is a full-scale reproduction of the original Lady Washington. Built in the British Colony of Massachusetts in the 1750s, the original vessel carried freight between colonial ports until the American Revolutionary War, when she became an American privateer. In 1787, after the war, she was given a major refit to prepare her for a unprecedented trading voyage around Cape Horn. In 1788, she became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America.

A pioneer in Pan-Pacific trade, she was the first American ship to visit Honolulu, Hong Kong and Japan. Lady Washington opened the black pearl and sandalwood trade between Hawaii and the Orient when King Kamehameha became a partner in the ship.

The topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain is a replica of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century. Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer’s ships used in the expeditions of the late 18th century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Built of steel in Hawaii in 1988 and originally designed for cargo trade among the Hawaiian Islands, her design was influenced by the early colonial passenger and coastal packets that carried on coastal trade along the Atlantic coastal cities and towns.

The tall ships were due to arrive in Hood River this evening and will stay the weekend, offering public tours May 15 from 4 to 5 p.m. and May 15 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Battle sails are planned May 16 and 17 from 2 to 5 p.m.. A Sunset sail is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. An adventure sail is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Passage tickets are available from Hood River to The Dalles, as well as other legs of the ships’ journey.

The ship is due to arrive in The Dalles at 2:30 p.m. Monday and stay in guest moorage at the marina, according to Kathy Norton of the Port of The Dalles.

The ships will pull out the following day, with a stop and public tours planned in Arlington on Tuesday, May 19 from 6 to 7 p.m.

For more information about the ships, or to book tickets on upcoming sails, visit the ships’ website at www.historicalseaport.org, or call (800) 200-5239.