Binnington Bay


Binnington Bay (50˚20'00" 125˚19'00" Just W of Cameleon Hbr, W side of Sonora I, N of Campbell R). William Binnington served as 2nd lt aboard HMS Cameleon, a 17-gun sloop based at Esquimalt on the Pacific Station, 1863–65. (The Cameleon was also stationed on the BC coast in 1867–69 and 1870–74, but without Binnington.) He was present in 1863 when several RN warships, including the Cameleon, searched for the murderers of a Saturna I family, a pursuit that eventually resulted in the...

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