Stopford Point

Stopford Point (55˚12'00" 130˚05'00" Between Dickens Point and Dent Bluff, E side of Portland Canal, N of Prince Rupert). Lt Robert Wilbraham Stopford (1844–1911) served on the Pacific Station, 1866–69, aboard HMS Zealous, the flagship of the station’s cdr-in-chief, Rear Adm George Hastings. He was also in BC in 1869–70 as 1st lt of HMS Chanticleer, under Capt William Bridges. Stopford was promoted to capt in 1885 and spent 1892–95 as capt of Britain’s Royal Naval College. He came...

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