Dacres Point

Dacres Point (49˚50'00" 123˚56'00" N side of Goliath Bay, S end of Prince of Wales Reach, Jervis Inlet). Capt George Richards surveyed the area in HMS Plumper about 1860 and named a number of features in association with Adm Sir John Jervis, after whom the inlet had been named by Capt George Vancouver in 1792. Capt James Richard Dacres (1749–1810) was cdr of HMS Barfleur, flagship of Vice Adm William Waldegrave, at the 1797 Battle of St Vincent, Jervis’s great victory. Dacres was soon a...

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