Empire Anchorage

Empire Anchorage (53˚35'00" 132˚54'00" S side of Port Chanal, W side of Graham I, QCI). Named by Capt Absalom Freeman in 1912 after an iron-hulled Canadian Fishing Co halibut trawler, the Celestial Empire. Freeman made a sketch survey of the area from this 37-m, 185-tonne vessel, which had been built in 1897 to work in the N Sea. It was renamed the Cape Scott by Capt Barney Jones in the 1920s and used to tow logs across Hecate Str. After a stint with the Pacific Coyle Navigation Co, the ship...

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