Belleisle Sound

Belleisle Sound (50˚53'00" 126˚25'00" S side of Kingcome Inlet, N of W Johnstone Str). Named in 1864 by Lt Daniel Pender of the hired survey vessel Beaver, in association with Kingcome Inlet. Cdr John Kingcome had been in command of HMS Belleisle, a 20-gun troopship, in China in the 1840s. In 1863–64, as a rear adm, he was cdr-in-chief of the RN’s Pacific Station, based at Esquimalt. The 1,547-tonne Belleisle was launched in 1819, converted to a hospital ship in 1854 and broken up in...

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