Ford Rock

Ford Rock (53˚36'00" 130˚32'00" In Griffith Hbr, W side of Banks I). A trimmer named A Ford—a “returned man” or WWI veteran who saw service in Europe—worked on board the W coast survey vessel Lillooet in the early 1920s. Trimmers were engine-room crewmen with the dirty, unenviable job of making sure that coal was evenly distributed in the bunkers and that the firemen were well supplied with fuel for stoking the boiler furnaces.

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