Weser Island

Weser Island (50˚52'00" 128˚02'00" At W entrance to Goletas Channel, E of Cape Sutil, off N end of Vancouver I). RN surveyor Capt George Richards named this feature about 1862 in association with Commerell Point (qv, now Sutil Point), after HMS Weser, one of the commands of British naval officer John Edmund Commerell. He was in charge of this iron paddleboat, originally built for the Prussian navy in 1851 and named the Salamander, in 1855, when he won the VC for a daring commando attack on a...

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