Alert Bay


Alert Bay (50˚35'00" 126˚56'00" S side of Cormorant I, Broughton Str, N end of Johnstone Str), Alert Island (52˚07'00" 128˚07'00" Off W side of Denny I, W of Bella Bella), Alert Rock (50˚35'00" 126˚57'00" S of Cormorant I), Alert Rock (54˚11'00" 132˚58'00" E end of Solide Passage, Langara I, QCI). HMS Alert, a 17-gun screw corvette, was built at Pembroke in 1856 and based at Esquimalt, 1858–61 (under Cdr William Pearse) and 1865–69 (under Cdr Arthur Innes). Its crew did survey work...

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