Moolock Cove

Moolock Cove (53˚27'00" 129˚49'00" Head of Mink Trap Bay, W side of Pitt I). Named in 1944 after HMCS Moolock (FY 16), one of six naval patrol boats built at Victoria about 1941 for BC’s Fishermen Reserve Service fleet in WWII. The 26-m vessel was dispatched to Estevan Point in 1942 to investigate the alleged shelling of the lighthouse station there by a Japanese submarine. Lt Donald Peck was in command for several years and apparently towed the Pender, a houseboat used by the hydrographic...

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