Constance Bank

Constance Bank (48˚21'00" 123˚21'00" In Juan de Fuca Str, S of Victoria), Constance Cove (48˚26'00" 123˚26'00" E side of Esquimalt Hbr, just W of Victoria). HMS Constance, a 50-gun frigate, was a presence on the Pacific Station from 1846 to 1849, under Capt George Courtenay. The 78-m, 1,927-tonne ship spent much time in Mexican ports, loading gold and silver that foreign merchants wished to remove from Mexico during that country’s war with the US (1846–48). In 1848 it became one of the...

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