Alarm Rock

Alarm Rock (48˚57'00" 123˚41'00" In Stuart Channel, W of Kuper I, Gulf Is). The frigate Alarm, 26 guns and 827 tonnes, was built at Sheerness dockyard, Kent, in 1845 and spent much time over the next seven years in the W Indies, seeing action in Nicaragua in 1848 after several British citizens were abducted by the Nicaraguan army. The vessel was posted to the Pacific Station, under Capt Douglas Curry, from 1855 to 1858. It was converted to a coal hulk in 1860 and spent 40 years in that...

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