Sea Lion Rock

Sea Lion Rock (50˚23'00" 125˚09'00" W of Whirlpool Point, Yuculta Rapids, off W side of Stuart I, N of Campbell R). A number of vessels named Sea Lion have graced PNW waters over the decades. This feature commemorates a historic tug that went aground and sank here in 1930 but was later salvaged. The name was suggested by local residents in 1955. The 198-tonne, 35-m towboat, built at Vancouver for independent owner Capt George French in 1905, was the only tug in BC to boast a piano in its...

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