Wingate Point

Wingate Point (52˚36'00" 128˚45'00" SW entrance to Meyers Passage, Laredo Sd, NW end of Swindle I, NW of Bella Bella). Lt Walter Wingate of the RCNVR was listed in 1916–17 as CO of HMCS Grilse, a motor yacht (the former Winchester) that was converted to a torpedo boat and operated out of Halifax. In 1918 he appears as a lt cdr with HMCS Niobe, at that time a depot ship at Halifax. Wingate may also have served briefly in HMCS Rainbow at Esquimalt during WWI. After the war he is believed to...

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