Butterworth Rocks

Butterworth Rocks (54˚14'00" 130˚59'00" NW of Stephens I, W of Prince Rupert). The 356-tonne Butterworth, a former 30-gun French frigate captured by the RN, was put into service as a British trading vessel and sent to the PNW under Capt William Brown. Brown traded successfully on the BC N coast in the summers of 1792 and 1793; he also spent much time at Hawaii, where he was killed in an attack by islanders in 1795. He encountered Capt George Vancouver several times in BC and helped him find...

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