Palliser Rock

Palliser Rock (49˚37'00" 124˚50'00" N of Denman I, Str of Georgia). Rear Adm Henry St Ledger Bury Palliser (d 1907) was cdr-in-chief on the RN’s Pacific Station, based at Esquimalt, 1896–99. His flagship was the cruiser Imperieuse, under Capt Charles Adair. Palliser entered the RN in 1852 and saw service as a junior officer in the Crimean War. He was promoted to capt in 1878, commodore at Hong Kong in 1891, rear adm in 1893 and reached the rank of adm, retired, in 1904. He had famous...

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