Devastation Channel

Devastation Channel (53˚40'00" 128˚50'00" Between Hawkesbury I and the mainland, S of Kitimat), Devastation Island (54˚19'00" 130˚29'00" Metlakatla Bay, NW of Prince Rupert). HMS Devastation, a 6-gun, 960-tonne paddle sloop built at Woolwich in 1841 and decommissioned in 1867, was on the BC coast in 1862–65. The ship helped suppress numerous instances of First Nation unrest. In 1862, under Lt Charles Heysham, it was sent to the W coast of Vancouver I to inquire into complaints by early...

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