Ariel Rock

Ariel Rock (52 ̊48'00" 132 ̊03'00" NE of Shearer Point, Tasu Sd, Moresby I, QCI). Two different sealing schooners named Ariel operated from the W coast in the 1880s. The earlier one, which sailed out of San Francisco, distinguished itself by catching 131 fur seals in a single day in 1881. The second Ariel was brought out from Halifax in 1888 by Capt John McLeod for its new owner, Samuel Bucknam of Victoria, former master of the Sardonyx. It was boarded and seized off Copper I in 1892 by...

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