Ball Point

Ball Point (49˚45'00" 124˚13'00" NW point of Hardy I, Jervis Inlet). Named about 1860 by RN surveyor Capt George Richards after Sir Alexander John Ball (1757–1809), a British rear adm, former commissioner of the navy at Gibraltar and first civil commissioner of the island of Malta (1801–9). As a capt, in command of HMS Alexander, he fought at the 1798 Battle of the Nile. Ball was a close friend of Adm Lord Nelson, whose flagship, HMS Vanguard, he once towed to safety after it had been...

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