Fairfax Island

Fairfax Island (52˚09'00" 131˚05'00" In Houston Stewart Channel, S of Moresby I, QCI). Lt Fairfax Moresby (1826–58) was the eldest son of Rear Adm Fairfax Moresby, cdr-in-chief on the RN’s Pacific Station, 1850–53 (see Moresby I), and served aboard his father’s flagship, HMS Portland, on the BC coast. In 1856, as a cdr, he was in charge of HMS Sappho, a 12-gun brig assigned to suppress the slave trade on the W Africa coast. He seized several US vessels, including the Panchita, which...

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