Woodruff Bay

Woodruff Bay (51˚58'00" 131˚02'00" SE end of Kunghit I, S of Moresby I, QCI). Samuel Woodruff (b 1743), a native of Connecticut, was present on the BC coast in 1778 as a gunner’s mate with HMS Discovery, on Capt James Cook’s last great voyage, 1776–80. In 1787, by now an experienced seaman and navigator, he signed on as 1st mate with the Columbia Rediviva, under Capt John Kendrick, for the first US fur-trading voyage to the PNW. Kendrick, who was infamous for his belligerent, tyrannical...

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