Resolution Cove

Resolution Cove (49˚36'00" 126˚31'00" E side of Clerke Peninsula, S end of Bligh I, entrance to Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). HMS Resolution, the larger of Capt James Cook’s two expedition vessels, was repaired here in 1778 during the explorer’s month-long stay on the BC coast. Cook named the site Ship Cove. The 419-tonne, 12-gun sloop was built at Whitby in N Yorkshire in 1770 as the N Sea collier Marquis of Granby and was purchased by the Admiralty a year later. The vessel was...

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