The Columbia River Bar Pilots, Part III By Nancy Lloyd For The Astorian On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon ...

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 ...

ASTORIA, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday for a person reported missing after a vessel was found partially submerged near the Columbia River Bar. At about 5:20 a.m. on Sunday, ...

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 commerce of the Bar carried on, as did the shipwrecks. Newspapers began discussing the need to deepen and stabilize the channel and find a way keep Peacock Spit and Clatsop Spit (and Sand Island) ...

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.

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 ...