Calamity Bay

Calamity Bay (53˚10'00" 129˚51'00" S end of Banks I), Calamity Harbour (53˚10'00" 129˚47'45" Just E of Calamity Bay). Capt James Colnett, with the Prince of Wales, and Capt Charles Duncan, in the Princess Royal, led an early fur-trading expedition to the BC coast under the auspices of the King George’s Sd Co. In late autumn of 1787 they were forced to spend two and a half months repairing the Prince of Wales at a secluded anchorage on Banks I. The vessel was unloaded and the main mast...

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