On June 17, 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of
friendship from the people of France to the people of America,
arrived in New York Harbor after being shipped across the
Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than
200 cases.

The copper and iron statue was reassembled and dedicated
the following year in a ceremony presided over by President
Grover Cleveland. It became known around the world as an
enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic
sank into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of
Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried
2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and
half hours before.

The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic, it was          
reported to have a streak of red paint from a ships hull
along it s waterline on one side.
 

On December 18, 1620, the English ship Mayflower arrived at
modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers
prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.

Navy ships arrive on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon
in 1939.

Since 1907, visiting ships have made their way to Portland’s waterfront.

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were
then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved
Africans in the New World marked the beginning of two and a
half centuries of slavery in North America.