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Celebrating 50 Years of 
The QuarterDeck

PAST QUARTERDECK ISSUES
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2024, Volume 50
Summer 2024 - Cedar and Sea: the Maritime Culture of the Coastal Indigenous People of the Pacific Northwest
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2023, Volume 49
Summer 2023 - Lightship Columbia Returns
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2022, Volume 48
Fall 2022 - Merrimac returns to Astoria
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2021, Volume 47
Spring 2021 - The Columbia River Jetties: Battling the Columbia for Over 125 Years
Fall 2021 - Bill Rutherford Mask Collection: Chinook-inspired Spirit Masks at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
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2019/2020, Volume 46
Winter 2019/2020 - Miniboat Nishi Kaze: Making Global Connections for CRMM
Fall 2020 - Paddling the Columbia: From the Headwaters to the Columbia River Bar by Hand-Built Kayak
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2019, Volume 45
Summer 2019 - Shipwreck: Exxon Valdez, 30 Years Ago , Bligh Reef, Alaska
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2018, Volume 44
Summer 2018 - USCG's Bluebell: Workhorse of the Columbia
Winter 2018 - Astoria's S.S. Great Northern: World's Fastest Steamship
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2017, Volume 43
Spring 2017 - Science of Storms: The Extraordinary Weather of the Pacific Northwest
Fall 2017 - Maritime Archaeological Society
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2016, Volume 42
Spring 2016 - Ingrid Princess, Guided by Boats
Fall 2016 - Teaching Vessel Ironwood, Tongue Point Job Corps Seamanship Program, Astoria, Oregon
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2015, Volume 41
Fall 2015 - The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Winter 2015 - A Shipwreck and the Duke
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2014, Volume 40
Summer 2014 - U.S.S. Shark in Oregon Country
Winter 2014 - The Voyage of Ocean Harmony
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2013, Volume 39
Spring 2013 - Celebrating the Opening of Barbey Maritime Center, Columbia River Maritime Museum
Summer 2013 - A Step Back in Time at Astoria Marine Construction Company
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2012, Volume 38
Number 1/2, Spring 2012 - Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps, 1472-1700
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Special Edition
Columbia River Maritime Museum: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
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2011, Volume 37
Number 1/2, Summer 2011 - The Crew of the Arrow 2
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2010, Volume 36
Spring 2010 - InPort, the Art of the Working Waterfront
Fall 2010 - The Pilot Boat Peacock
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2009, Volume 35
Number 1, Winter 2009 - Winter Arrives at the South Jetty
Number 2, Spring 2009 - Astoria Welcomes Cruise Ship Giants
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2008, Volume 34
Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008 - Pilot Boat Columbia's First Run
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2007, Volume 33
Number 1, Winter 2007 - Ranger Crossing the Legendary Columbia River Bar
Number 2, Spring 2007 - Mapping the Pacific Coast, Coronado to Lewis and Clark ~ The Quivera Collection
Number 3/4, Fall 2007 - Storm on the Columbia
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2006, Volume 32
Number 1, Winter 2006 - The Art of the Decoy, Duck Hunting on the Lower Columbia River
Number 2, Spring 2006 - The Pacific Coast Championship Races at Astoria, August 1913
Number 3, Fall 2006 - The Wreck of the Peter Iredale, Commemorating 100 Years
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2005, Volume 31
Number 1/2, Summer 2005 - Lightship Columbia Restored to Original Beauty
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2004, Volume 30
Number 1/2, ​Spring/Summer 2004 - The Pilot Boat Peacock, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Donate the Legendary Vessel
Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2004 - The Museum as a Collecting Institution
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2003, Volume 29
Number 1, ​Spring 2003 - World War II Merchant Ship Losses: Columbia River Built, Owned or Operated
Number 2, Winter 2003 - Where's the Mate? by Captain Niels A. Nielson
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2002, Volume 28
Number 1/2, ​Spring/Summer 2002 - Museum Celebrates 40th Anniversary in Grand Style
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2001, Volume 27
Number 1, Winter 2001 - The Year in Review: 1999-2000
Number 2, Spring 2001 - Celebrating 50 Years of the Lightship Columbia
Number 3/4, Summer/Fall 2001 - Museum Celebrates with Topping Out
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2000, Volume 26
Number 1, Winter 2000 - The Columbia River Bar Pilots
Number 2, Spring 2000 - The Adventures of the USCGC Steadfast
Number 3/4 - Summer/Fall 2000 - Columbia River: Gateway to the West by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
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1999, Volume 25
Number 1, Winter 1999 - The Year in Review: 1997-1998, Charting a New Course at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
Number 2, Spring 1999 - H.M. Bark Endeavour Sets Sail for Astoria
Number 3, Summer 1999 - Charting a New Course at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
Number 4, Autumn 1999 - The Year in Review: 1998-1999, Sailing into the Next Millenium at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
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1998, Volume 24
Number 1, Winter 1998 - Lifesaving Craft Tell Vivid Story
Number 2/3, Spring/Summer 1998 - Remembering Rosie: Women Shipyard Workers in World War II
Number 4, Autumn 1998 - Guardians of Health on the Lower Columbia River
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1997, Volume 23
Number 1, Winter 1997 - Astoria in 1846: "Sharkville"
Number 2, Spring 1997 - A Heroic Figure of the Age of Exploration
Number 3, Summer 1997 - Down-Easter Pactolus Sails into Museum
Number 4, Autumn 1997 - Troller Darle: A Good Catch for the Museum
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1996, Volume 22
Number 1, Winter 1996 - Exploradores! The Spanish and Northwest America
Number 2, Spring 1996 - A Ship Named Astoria
Number 3, Summer 1996 - Picturing Astoria's Maritime Past
Number 4, Autumn 1996 - Astoria in 1846: An Eye-Witness Report
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1995, Volume 21
Number 1, Winter 1995 - Return to Manilla: The World War II Navy Photographs of Victor Jorgensen
Number 2, Spring 1995 - Sea Stories
Number 3, Summer/Autumn 1995 - Life in the Wake of the Outboard Motor
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1993 - 1994, Volume 20
Number 1, Fall/Winter 1993 - When Skinners and Hookers Waded the Tide
Number 2, Spring 1994 - They Called It the Bridge to Nowhere
Number 3, Summer 1994 - Celebrations of Regional Heritage and Maritime Arts

Number 4, Autumn 1994 - Tugs on the Great River Highway
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1992 - 1993, Volume 19
Number 1, Autumn 1992 - The Challenge of Making History Come Alive
Number 2, Winter 1993 - The Point Where Past and Future Meet
Number 3, Spring 1993 - Featuring Stories Drawn from the Wellsprings of Family Memory

Number 4, Summer 1993 - Recreational Boating on the Lower Columbia
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1991 - 1992, Volume 18
Number 1, Autumn 1991 - The Columbia Rediviva in Works of Art
Number 2, Winter 1992 - The Rediscovery of the Great River of the West
Number 3, Spring 1992 - Robert Gray and Columbia's River, May 1792

Number 4, Summer 1992 - The Arrival of the British on Columbia's River
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1990-1991 - Volume 17
Number 1, Fall 1990 - Art and History: Cleveland Rockwell on Exhibit
Number 2, Winter 1991 - The Several Lives of the Daniel Kern
Number 3, Spring 1991 - Regional Maritime Bicentennial Draws Near

Number 4, Summer 1991 - The Reasons for the Maritime Fur Trade
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1990 - Volume 16
Number 2, Winter 1990 - Arts of the Mariner and Coming to Terms with the Sea
Number 3, Spring 1990 - They Don't Have to Come Back

Number 4, Summer 1990 - USCG Cutter Resolute and Salute to the U.S. Coast Guard
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1989
Autumn 1989 - Year of the Fisherman
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YEAR 15 - 1987/1988 - VOLUME 15
Number 1, Winter 1987/1988 - The Galena Stranded on Clatsop Beach, 1906
Number 2, Spring 1988 - Pile Driver Building the South Jetty of the Columbia, 1880s
Number 3, Summer 1988 - Astoria Regatta Scene, 1903

Number 4, Fall 1988 - The Annie M. Reid at San Francisco, circa 1917
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YEAR 14 - 1986/1987 - VOLUME 14
Number 1, Winter 1986/1987 - Replica of Drake's Golden Hinde to Visit Astoria
Number 2, Spring 1987 - Model of the Falls of Halladale by Lloyd McCaffery
Number 3, Summer 1987 - The Oneonta in the Columbia Gorge, circa 1870

Number 4, Fall 1987 - U.S.S. Coos Bay (APV-25) during World War II
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YEAR 13 - 1985/1986 - VOLUME 13
Number 1, Winter 1985/1986 - The S.S. Robert Dollar, San Francisco Bay, circa 1911
Number 2, Spring 1986 - The Glenesslin on the Rocks at Neahkahnie Mountain, 1913
Number 3, Summer 1986 - Steamboat Eva Meeting the Stage at Scottsburg, Oregon

Number 4, Fall 1986 - Restored Monomoy Surfboat CG-26802, August 1986
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YEAR 12 - 1984/1985 - VOLUME 12
Number 1, Winter 1984/1985 - Launching the Ilwaco Beach Lifeboat during a Drill, circa 1900
Number 2, Spring 1985 - Wreck of the S.S. Laurel, Peacock Spit, June 1929
Number 3, Summer 1985 - The Northern Pacific's Car Ferry Tacoma

Number 4, Fall 1985 - Oregon Naval Militia Marching at Astoria, 1898
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YEAR 11 - 1983/1984 - VOLUME 11
Number 1, Winter 1983/1984 - The U.S. Cruiser Olympia
Number 2, Spring 1984 - Builders' Profile of the Olympian​, 1883
Number 3, Summer 1984 - The Lightship Columbia at the Portland Maritime Festival

Number 4, Fall 1984 - The Dalles Ferry New Western Queen Making a Crossing
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YEAR 10 - 1982/1983 - VOLUME 10
Number 1, Winter 1982/1983 - The Mary Moody, Pend Orielle Lake, 1867
Number 2, Spring 1983 - U.S. Lighthouse Tender Shubrick (1857-1886)
Number 3, Summer 1983 - The Star of Finland (ex Kaiulani)

Number 4, Fall 1983 - The M.V. Erria Burning off Astoria, 1951
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YEAR 9 - 1981 - VOLUME 9
Number 1, Spring 1981 - The Battleship Oregon
Number 2, Summer 1981 - S.S. State of California off Astoria, 1908

Number 3, Fall 1981 - U.S. Heavy Cruiser Astoria (1933-1942)
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YEAR 8 - 1980 - VOLUME 8
Number 1, Spring 1980 - The Shaver Fleet in Portland, 1894
Number 2, Summer 1980 - Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

Number 3, Fall 1980 - Landing at the The Dalles, Oregon, circa 1897
Number 4, Winter 1980 - Columbia River Pilot Schooner Joseph Pulitzer
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YEAR 7 - 1979 - VOLUME 7
Number 1, Spring 1979 - Str. Dalles City Approaching Cascade Locks
Number 2, Summer 1979 - Schooner Tango (ex. Bark Molly Dollar, ex. Hans) off Columbia City, May, 1942

Number 3, Fall 1979 - S.S. Admiral Benson Ashore near Peacock Spit, February, 1930
Number 4, Winter 1979 - New Building Fund Receives $500,000 Grant
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YEAR 6 - 1978 - VOLUME 6
Number 1, Spring 1978 - Steamer Ocklahama Tows Two Barques Upstream to Portland to Load Grain, late 1880s
Number 2, Summer/Fall 1978 - Steel 4-Maste Barque, Edward Sewell.  Built Bath, Maine, 1899.  Scrapped, 1936.
Number 3, Winter 1978 - S.S. Rose City off the Astoria Waterfront
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YEAR 5 - 1977 - VOLUME 5
Number 1, Spring 1977 – Steam Tug Tatoosh in the Straits of Juan De Fuca, circa 1910
Number 2, Summer 1977 - Steamer City of Salem taking on Freight at a River Landing, circa 1880
Number 3, Fall 1977 - Steam Schooner Rochelle at Columbia Contract Co. Dock, Portland, 1912
Number 4, Winter 1977 - French Ship Alice Wrecked near Ocean Park, 1909
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YEAR 4 - 1976 - VOLUME 4
Number 1, Spring 1976 – New Museum Building Shapes Up
Number 2, Summer 1976 – Steamer G.W. Shaver at Beaver Slough, Circa 1890
Number 3, Fall 1976 - Ship Tonquin Crossing the Bar, March 25, 1811
Number 4, Winter 1976 – M.V. Tom & Al Brings in a Humpback Whale
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YEAR 3 - 1975 - VOLUME 3
Number 1, Spring 1975 – Str. Chester at Toledo, Washington
Number 2, Summer 1975 – New Museum Building Now Under Construction
Number 3, Fall 1975 – Georgiana
Number 4, Winter 1975 – Schooner Inca off Cape Flattery, 1913
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YEAR 2 - 1974 - VOLUME 2
Number 1, Spring 1974 - Six-Masted Schooner Fir off the Columbia River, July 1926
Number 2, Summer 1973 - Lightship Columbia at the Portland Rose Festival, June 1974
Number 3, Fall 1973 - Glenmorag
Number 4, Winter 1973 - Aerial View of Museum Site and Surroundings
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YEAR 1 - 1973 - VOLUME 1

Number 1, Spring 1973 - Activity at the Building Site
Number 2, Summer 1973 - An Outing on the Bailey Gatzert in the Good Old Summertime, circa 1910
Number 3, Fall 1973 - New Museum Building Will Overlook Ship Channel at Historic Anchorage Site
Number 4, Winter 1973 - Lighthouse Tender Manzanita Breaking Ice Near Skowakawa, 1930​
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