page_title: Robert Gray (sea captain)
section_title: Namesakes
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Gray (sea captain) / Legacy / Namesakes
caption_attribution_description: Map of Grays Harbor, WA / Karte von Grays Harbor, WA
context_page_description: Robert Gray was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region. In the course of those voyages, Gray explored portions of that coast and, in 1790, completed the first American circumnavigation of the world. He was noted for coming upon and naming the Columbia River in 1792, while on his second voyage.
  Gray's earlier and later life are both comparatively obscure. He was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, and may have served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. After his two famous voyages, he carried on his career as a sea captain, mainly of merchantmen in the Atlantic. He intended a third voyage to the Northwest Coast, but his ship was captured by French privateers, during the Franco-American Quasi-War. Later in that conflict, Gray commanded an American privateer. He died at sea in 1806, near Charleston, South Carolina, possibly of yellow fever.
context_section_description: Grays Harbor and Grays Harbor County, in Washington
  Grays Bay, on the north shore of the Columbia River estuary
  Grays Point, at the west of Grays Bay
  Grays River, a tributary of the Columbia River, flowing into Grays Bay
  Grays River, Washington, a small, unincorporated rural village on the river of the same name
  Robert Gray Avenue in Tiverton, Rhode Island
  Robert Gray Middle School in Portland, Oregon
  Robert Gray Middle School in Tacoma, Washington
  Captain Robert Gray Elementary in Astoria, Oregon
  Robert Gray Elementary School in Aberdeen, Washington
  Robert Gray Elementary School in Longview, Washington
  Robert Gray Elementary School in Pasco, Washington
  Grayland, WA a small unincorporated area on the Washington Coast between Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay
caption: Map of Grays Harbor in Washington
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