Kestrel Rock

Kestrel Rock (54˚13'00" 130˚23'00" S of Digby I, just SW of Prince Rupert). CGS Kestrel was a small federal-government steamer especially designed for fisheries protection service on the BC coast. The 282-tonne, 38-m vessel—built in 1903 at False Ck, Vancouver, by Wallace Shipyards—sported Maxim and 5-pound guns. According to a newspaper report, “strength and utility were considered in her plans rather than beauty: hence the ram nose, the solid almost pugnacious bow, and the general...

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