Suwanee Rock

Suwanee Rock (50˚54'00" 127˚49'00" Shadwell Passage, between Hope I and Vansittart I, off N end of Vancouver I). The USS Suwanee, launched at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1864, during the US Civil War, was an iron-hulled, sidewheel gunboat designed for river use, with a shallow draft and front-and-rear rudders. On its way to Alaska in 1868, with Victoria pilot James Cooper aboard, the 934-tonne naval vessel became grounded on this previously uncharted rock. As the tide dropped, the ship broke in...

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