Growler Cove

Growler Cove (50˚32'00" 126˚37'00" W end of W Cracroft I, NW entrance to Johnstone Str, E of Port McNeill). Possibly named after the Growler, a well-known Puget Sd schooner that left Victoria, under Capt Horace Coffin, for Sitka, Alaska, in 1868 and was wrecked “at the head of Vancouver’s I,” according to a contemporary report in the NY Times. None of the 13 crew or passengers were ever seen again. When the schooner Nanaimo Packet later reached the scene of the wreck and its crew...

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