Ferey Rock


Ferey Rock (50˚07'26" 127˚39'14" Entrance to Nasparti Inlet, Checleset Bay, NW side of Vancouver I). Capt George Ferey was born on the Channel Is in 1848. A globe-circling master mariner, he was based at Victoria in the 1880s and ’90s, mainly as a sealing skipper. He was with the W P Sayward in 1887 when that sealer was seized in the Bering Sea and taken to Sitka by a US revenue cutter. He also served on the sealers Lottie Fairfield and Teresa, sailed to China and Australia as mate of the...

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