Shearwater Island

Shearwater Island (52˚09'00" 128˚05'00" In Kliksoatli Hbr, N side of Denny I, just E of Bella Bella), Shearwater Point (53˚28'00" 128˚36'00" N side of Gardner Canal, Alan Reach, S of Kitimat). HMS Shearwater was launched in 1900 at England’s Sheerness dockyard and spent most of its working life based at Esquimalt as part of the Pacific Station. The RN phased out its Pacific squadron at the start of WWI, and the 63-m, 889-tonne vessel was transferred to the RCN in 1914, along with its...

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