Kingsley Point

Kingsley Point (52˚07'00" 128˚18'00" S end of Horsfall I, SW end of Raymond Passage, W of Bella Bella). This name was adopted in 1944 to honour Cdr Harry Kingsley 
(c 1900–1976), an RCN officer who spent much time on the BC coast. In the early years of WWII he was in command of HMCS St Croix (1940–41) and HMCS Skeena (1941–42). Both these destroyers came to unhappy ends later in the war (and under different cdrs): the St Croix was sunk by a U-boat in 1943 with the eventual loss of 146...

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