Spanish Pilot Group

Spanish Pilot Group (49˚38'00" 126˚35'00" SW of Bligh I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). A pilot was an NCO rank in the 18th-century Spanish navy that roughly corresponded with the RN rank of master. Pilots were often highly trained and more than capable of running a ship and handling navigation and survey duties. Various pilots accompanied the early Spanish expeditions to the PNW, and regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau proposed, in 1934, to commemorate six of them—Juan Carrasco, José...

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