Agnew Islet


Agnew Islet (52˚06'00" 128˚24'00" W entrance to Seaforth Channel, Milbanke Sd, NW of Bella Bella). Commodore Ronald Ian Agnew, OBE (1895–1949), born at Toronto, was a cadet at the Royal Naval College of Canada in 1911. In his early career he was in charge of the destroyers Patrician (1926–28), Vancouver (1928) and Saguenay (1934–36) and served as CO at Esquimalt in 1931. During WWII he commanded the Canadian armed merchant cruiser Prince Henry (1940–41) and the British aircraft...

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