Stopford Bay


Stopford Bay (50˚49'00" 126˚40'00" N side of Broughton I, NE of Port McNeill), Stopford Point (50˚03'00" 124˚44'00" SE side of Gifford Peninsula, Lancelot Inlet, NW of Powell R). Lt Robert Edward Stopford (1841–68) served on the Pacific Station in the early 1860s. In 1864, while an officer on HMS Sutlej, he was promoted to senior lt of HMS Devastation after that vessel’s cdr had been invalided home. Both the Sutlej, which was the flagship of the station’s cdr-in-chief, Rear Adm Joseph...

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