Thetis Anchorage

Thetis Anchorage (52˚56'00" 132˚09'00" Head of Mitchell Inlet, Kuper Inlet, NW side of Moresby I, QCI), Thetis Cove (48˚27'00" 123˚26'00" E side of Esquimalt Hbr, W of Victoria), Thetis Island (49˚00'00" 123˚41'00" W of N end of Galiano I, Gulf Is). The RN frigate Thetis, 36 guns and 1,382 tonnes, was launched at Plymouth dockyard in 1846. Named after a Greek sea nymph who was one of the Nereids and the mother of Achilles, it served in the Mediterranean and off the E coast of S America...

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