Ray Point


Ray Point (50˚34'00" 126˚11'00" N entrance to Call Inlet, E of the Cracroft Is, S of Knight Inlet). Henry Johns Ray (d 1903) was assistant paymaster aboard HMS Havannah, under Capt Thomas Harvey, on the Pacific Station, 1855–59. He returned to the BC coast in 1885–88 with HMS Triumph, the flagship of Rear Adm Michael Culme and, later, Rear Adm Algernon Heneage. Ray was promoted to the rank of fleet paymaster in 1886 and retired in 1889. Capt George Richards named a number of features in...

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