Sans Peur Passage


Sans Peur Passage (51˚56'00" 128˚12'00" W side of Hunter I, S of Bella Bella). The 64-m motor yacht Sans Peur, built in England in 1933, was the private vessel of the 5th Duke of Sutherland, the immensely rich Sir George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. The duke was hunting bear on the BC coast while on a voyage around the world when war broke out in 1939, and the yacht was immediately transferred to the RCN, which used it as a training ship and also to conduct anti-submarine patrols on...

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