Simoom Sound

Simoom Sound (50˚51'00" 126˚30'00" E and N of Wishart Peninsula, between Tribune Channel and Kingcome Inlet, NE of Port McNeill). In 1864, RN marine surveyor Lt Daniel Pender named a number of features in this area in association with Rear Adm John Kingcome, who was cdr-in-chief of the Pacific Station at that time (see Kingcome Inlet). HMS Simoom, named after a hot, dust-laden wind characteristic of the Arabian desert, was one of Kingcome’s early commands. It had been designed as a 20-gun...

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