Cutch Rock

Cutch Rock (54˚18'30" 130˚29'06" Off Straith Point, Digby I, S entrance to Metlakatla Bay, just W of Prince Rupert). The Cutch was built at Hull, Yorkshire, in 1884 as a 294-tonne, 55-m pleasure craft for an Indian prince, the Maharaja of Cutch. He died soon after acquiring this toy, and the vessel was purchased by a group of local merchants and used in the Indian coastal trade. The next owner, the German government, employed it in E Africa, and in 1890 the Union Steamship Co bought it for...

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