Hastings Arm

Hastings Arm (55˚31'00" 129˚46'00" NW arm of Observatory Inlet, S of Stewart). Rear Adm George Fowler Hastings, CB (1814–76), was cdr-in-chief of the RN’s Pacific Station, based at Esquimalt, 1866–69. His flagship was HMS Zealous, under Capt Richard Dawkins. Hastings established Esquimalt’s RN cemetery in 1867. He saw action around the globe: in China, as cdr of HMS Harlequin, 1841–44; off W Africa, on HMS Cyclops, 1848–51; in the Mediterranean during the Crimean War with HMS...

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