Lascelles Point

Lascelles Point (51˚05'00" 127˚39'00" SE of Buccleugh Point and Cape Caution, N entrance to Queen Charlotte Str). Horace Douglas Lascelles (1835–69), a British nobleman and RN officer, arrived on the Pacific Station in 1860 as 1st lt of HMS Topaze. As cdr of HMS Forward, a gunboat assigned to patrol the BC S coast and maintain law and order, he was involved in several military actions between 1861 and 1865, including an intensive search for the murderers of Gulf Is settlers Frederick Marks...

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