Seven
United States Navy ships have been named
USS Columbia, after the personification of the
United States, also after the city of
Columbia, South Carolina.
- A 44-gun frigate Columbia was under construction at the Washington Navy Yard[?], but was burned in 1814 to prevent capture by the British.
In 1792, Captain Robert Gray[?], in a privately-owned vessel named Columbia sent to the Pacific Northwest to trade for fur, discovered the Columbia River and named it after the ship.