Coquitlam Island

Coquitlam Island (53˚51'00" 130˚35'00" Between Goschen I and W side of Porcher I, SW of Prince Rupert). The 230-tonne Coquitlam was a small steel freighter built at Glasgow in 1891 and assembled at Vancouver for the Union Steamship Co. In 1892 it was chartered by the Victoria Sealing Co to carry supplies to its schooners in the Gulf of Alaska and bring back their skins but was seized by a US revenue cutter for allegedly operating in US territorial waters. Taken to Sitka and later released...

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