Danube Rock

Danube Rock (53˚13'00" 132˚12'00" Entrance to Kagan Bay, Skidegate Inlet, QCI). Named in 1891 when the merchant steamship Danube, under Capt William Meyer, struck this hazard. The 66-m, 805-tonne vessel had an adventurous life. It was built near Glasgow in 1869 for the Scottish Oriental Steamship Co and named United Empire. The Canadian Pacific Navigation Co (taken over by the CPR in 1903) purchased it in 1890. In 1891–92 the Danube carried British fur-seal-treaty commissioners to Alaska,...

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