Spanish Bank

Spanish Bank (49˚17'00" 123˚13'00" SW side of Burrard Inlet at Vancouver, just W of English Bay). This is where Capt George Vancouver, much to his surprise, encountered the Spanish naval vessels Sutil and Mexicana, under Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano and Cayetano Valdés, in June 1792. Vancouver was returning from a long surveying expedition to Jervis Inlet in HMS Discovery’s launch and yawl, his own vessels being anchored farther S, at Birch Bay. The Spanish officers had also been sent to...

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