Nash Point

Nash Point (52˚41'00" 128˚34'00" SE side of Princess Royal I, just N of Alexander Inlet). Sub-lt Robert Arthur Nash of the RCN was killed in action Apr 29, 1944, aged 22, while serving aboard HMCS Athabaskan. The 
Tribal-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel, with the loss of 129 lives, while engaging four German E-class destroyers and numerous torpedo boats in company with HMCS Haida. Nash was posthumously mentioned in dispatches “for gallant and distinguished...

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