Keats Island

Keats Island (49˚24'00" 123˚28'00" W of Bowen I, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). Named about 1859 by Capt George Richards for Adm Sir Richard Goodwin Keats (1757–1834), one of the RN’s many heroes. He is most famous for his night attack, as capt of the 74-gun HMS Superb, on two 112-gun Spanish line-of-battle ships near Cape Trafalgar. In the darkness and confusion, the massive Spanish vessels Real Carlos and Hermenegildo mistakenly destroyed each other with gunfire. Keats retired from the RN...

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