Scylla Rock

Scylla Rock (50˚55'00" 127˚36'00" N of Redfern I in Gordon Channel, W entrance to Queen Charlotte Str, N of Port Hardy). HMS Scylla, a wooden steam corvette of 1,331 tonnes and 21 guns, was launched in 1856 and served in the Mediterranean and China. In 1869, under Capt Frederick Herbert, the 60-m vessel joined Commodore Geoffrey Hornby’s flying squadron and helped “show the flag” in S America, S Africa, Australia, NZ and Japan before arriving at Esquimalt in 1870. There it joined the...

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