Cumming Point

Cumming Point (50˚54'00" 126˚59'00" N side of Drury Inlet, N of Queen Charlotte Str and Port McNeill). Adm Sir Arthur Cumming, KCB (1817–93), born at Nancy, France, was an RN officer who served extensively on the Mediterranean and N America stations. In 1842, as a lt on HMS Frolic, he and seven men, with the ship’s pinnace, captured the much larger brigantine Vincedora, an illegal slaver, off the coast of S America. After long and conspicuous service as a cdr and capt, he was promoted to...

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