Ben Mohr Rock

Ben Mohr Rock (48˚51'00" 123˚23'00" In Trincomali Channel, off SW Galiano I, Gulf Is). Named in the early 1900s for the 3,000-tonne Scottish steamer Benmohr, under Capt A Wallace, which “grazed” this rock in 1900 after leaving Ladysmith with a load of coal. Two years later it collided with the Banffshire off England’s Thames estuary, spilling a cargo of cement-filled barrels along the shoreline. The Benmohr, which was built at Glasgow in 1893 and owned by the Ben Line of Leith, was sold...

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