Barfleur Passage

Barfleur Passage (49˚23'00" 123˚28'00" Between Keats I and Pasley I, W of Bowen I in entrance to Howe Sd). HMS Barfleur was a 98-gun, 1,766-tonne ship of the line, built at Chatham in 1768. It had a crew of 758 men. After seeing action in the W Indies, it took part, under Capt Cuthbert Collingwood, in Adm Earl Howe’s 1794 victory over the French in the English Channel engagement known as the Glorious First of June. The passage was one of many features Capt George Richards named to...

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