The Courtenay River is a short river on Vancouver Island , British Columbia , Canada , being the name of the channel from the confluence of the Puntledge and Tsolum Rivers , in the City of Courtenay , and its outlet into Comox Harbour , which is a part of the Strait of Georgia .
3-535: The name was officially adopted in 1922, based on an 1865 British Admiralty chart. It was named after Captain (later Rear Admiral) George William Courtenay of HMS Constance . 49°40′49″N 124°58′31″W / 49.68028°N 124.97528°W / 49.68028; -124.97528 This article about a river in the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . HMS Constance (1846) HMS Constance
6-543: A good sea boat, and a fine man of war". On the voyage she encountered a hurricane at 62° south. Walker wrote that "nothing could have exceeded the way she went over it, not even straining a rope yarn". In August 1848, her captain George William Courtenay , for whom the town of Courtenay was named, led 250 sailors and marines from Fort Victoria to try to intimidate the Indians. In 1848, she became
9-536: Was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched on 12 May 1846. She had a tonnage of 2,132 and was designed with a V-shaped hull by Sir William Symonds . She was also one of the last class of frigates designed by him. On her shakedown voyage from England to Valparaiso she rounded Cape Horn in good trim, her captain for this voyage being Sir Baldwin Wake Walker , who commented "I think her
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