New England Rocks

New England Rocks (52˚20'00" 131˚09'00" Entrance to Skincuttle Inlet, SE side of Moresby I, QCI). Named after the halibut vessel New England, which struck these hitherto unknown rocks in 1899 while under the command of Capt Harrison Joyce. The 216-tonne, 37-m ship was custom-built in New Jersey in 1897 for the Boston-based New England Fishing Co, which bought the Canadian Fishing Co in 1906 and developed it into one of the largest salmon canners on the BC coast. The innovative design of the...

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