Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago — 2016 Ships passing through or anchoring off Astoria have become a part of the landscape […] ...
In December of 1994, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association welcomed its first woman Bar pilot. Capt. Deborah Dempsey was “one of a dozen or so women in the United States with the highest mariner’s ...
ASTORIA, Ore. (KATU) — The Coast Guard has suspended their search for a missing person near the Columbia River Bar. “At about 5:20 a.m. Nov. 23, Coast Guard Sector Columbia River received a 911 relay ...
The Columbia River bar pilots are also one of the few pilot groups to use a helicopter, an Italian-made Agusta dubbed the Seahawk that can fly sideways at 45 knots, the better to maneuver onto ships ...
On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon Daily Journal ran celebratory features about the piloting history.
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