Kingsway Rock

Kingsway Rock (52˚52'00" 131˚40'00" Off Haswell I and SE end of Louise I, E of Moresby I, QCI). The 230-tonne, 41-m steam fishing trawler Kingsway was built in England in 1906 and brought to BC three years later by flamboyant German financier Alvo von Alvensleben, head of Pacific Coast Fisheries. The company built an unsuccessful fish-processing plant at Pacofi Bay (qv) on Moresby I and soon went bankrupt. The Kingsway was later sold to the Canadian Fishing Co as a halibut boat. In 1934 the...

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