Soquel Bank

Soquel Bank (48˚41'00" 125˚15'00" W of Pachena Point, S of Barkley Sd, off W side of Vancouver I). Named after the four-masted US schooner Soquel, under Capt Charles Henningsen, which was wrecked on nearby Seabird Rks in Jan 1909, en route from Peru to Port Townsend. The Bamfield lifeboat station was notified, but its motorized vessel had been badly damaged just two weeks previously; instead, an oar-powered boat had to be brought to the scene on the steamship Leebro. William Gillen and the...

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