Givenchy Anchorage


Givenchy Anchorage (53˚18'00" 132˚33'00" Head of Kano Inlet, SW Graham I, QCI). HMCS Givenchy, launched in 1917, was one of 12 Battle-class trawlers used by the RCN. It served as a minesweeper in WWI, then was employed by the Fisheries Protection Branch on the BC coast from 1919 until WWII. Under Capt A M Anderson, the 
40-m, 324-tonne vessel assisted the hydrographic service in surveying the inlets on the W coast of Graham I in the 1930s. HMCS Givenchy was later (1941–47) the name of a...

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