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22-687: Queens Reach is the last arm of the Jervis Inlet and is located within the Coast Mountain Range of British Columbia , Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by HMS  Plumper which charted all of the area and was named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

44-573: A fjord is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jervis Inlet It stretches 89 km (55 mi) from its head at the mouth of the short 18 km (11 mi) Skwawka River to its opening into the Strait of Georgia near Texada Island . It is the deepest fjord on the British Columbia coast with a maximum depth of 670 m (2,200 ft). The inlet is made up of three arms or reaches: At its uppermost stretch

66-483: A mane, and, as it moved through the water, kept washing about; but before I could examine it more closely, it was too far astern On 25 June 1850, she ran aground and was damaged off Digby, Nova Scotia , British North America . She was refloated and taken in to Digby for repairs. In June 1851 she deployed to the south-east coast of America and during this period she captured the slavers Flor-do-Mar on 14 June 1851 and Sarah on 9 June 1851 (with HMS Cormorant ). She

88-502: A sighting of a sea serpent off the Portuguese Coast. On the morning of the 31st December, 1848, in lat. 41° 13'N., and long. 12° 31'W., being nearly due west of Oporto, I saw a long black creature with a sharp head, moving slowly, I should think about two knots ... its back was about twenty feet if not more above water; and its head, as near as I could judge, from six to eight...There was something on its back that appeared like

110-557: A speed of 7.4 knots. Plumper was completed for sea on 17 December 1848 at a cost of £20,446. She was commissioned on 6 November 1848 under Commander Matthew S. Nolloth, RN for Particular Service with Admiral Sir Charles Napier 's Western Squadron. In January 1849 she was sent to the North America and West Indies Station. Curiously, a report was published in the Illustrated London News on 14 April 1849 of

132-528: Is Queens Reach, which takes a sharp right-angle often seen in fjord areas, to become Princess Royal Reach. Both reaches are about 20 km (12 mi) in length. The flanks of the fjord and the valley of the Skwawka River , which feeds the head of the inlet, are the site of two of Canada's highest waterfalls, James Bruce Falls 840 metres (2,760 ft) and Alfred Creek Falls at 700 m (2,300 ft). The most frequented and best known inlet in

154-803: Is recorded as arriving in Portsmouth from Brazil with 6,370 troy ounces (198 kg) of gold trans-shipped from the Emperor on 31 December 1852. She paid off at Portsmouth on 6 January 1853. After a short refit she recommissioned at Portsmouth under Commander John A.L. Wharton, RN on 1 August 1853 for service on the West Coast of Africa. At the time, the West Africa Squadron was employed overwhelmingly in anti-slavery patrols. She changed commanders on 5 April 1855 when Commander William H. Haswell took command. The London Gazette records

176-821: The Pacific Station and swapped commands with Richards, taking command of the Plumper in January 1861. He then returned to the United Kingdom, paying the ship off at Portsmouth on 2 July 1861. Plumper was sold to White of Cowes for breaking on 2 June 1865. Several significant features of the coast of British Columbia are named after Plumper , including Plumper Sound in the Southern Gulf Islands region of British Columbia and Plumper Cove at Keats Island (from which Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park takes its name). Other features were named after

198-571: The West Indies and North American Station, then on the West Africa Station and finally in the Pacific Station. It was during her last commission as a survey ship that she left her most enduring legacy; in charting the west coast of British Columbia she left her name and those of her ship's company scattered across the charts of the region. She paid off for the last time in 1861 and was finally sold for breaking up in 1865. Plumper

220-613: The area is Princess Louisa Inlet , with the Malibu Club and Young Life Camp at the Malibu Rapids , the entrance of the inlet, and Princess Louisa Marine Provincial Park , including Chatterbox Falls , at its head. At the mouth of Jervis Inlet a passenger and vehicle ferry operated by BC Ferries connects Earls Cove (on the upper end of the Sechelt Peninsula and lower Sunshine Coast ) with Saltery Bay (on

242-498: The area: In the early 1900s, logging and commercial fishing developed in the lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) area. Relatively large logging camps operated at Goliath Bay, Vancouver Bay and Hotham Sound, commercial fishing was conducted by owner-operators based in Egmont, ḵalpilin (Pender Harbour) and sḵelhp (Saltery Bay), and several fish-processing plants operated in Egmont, ḵalpilin and sḵelhp. HMS Plumper (1848) HMS Plumper

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264-405: The battle, St. Vincent Bay. The three specific reaches of the inlet and mountains were named in the 1860 survey by HMS  Plumper , which charted the known area in honour of members of Queen Victoria's family. The waterways named during this survey mission were: Princess Louisa Inlet , Queens Reach , Princess Royal Reach , and Prince of Wales Reach . Also named were the main mountains of

286-549: The bottom end of the Malaspina Peninsula and upper Sunshine Coast). The mouth of Sechelt Inlet connects with lekw’emin (Jervis Inlet) in the area of sḵelh (Earls Cove). Population is sparse on the shores of lekw’emin and there is no road access to the area. Industry includes small operations in aquaculture, commercial fishing and logging, but a substantial number of independent power projects are expected to develop in coming years . Prior to colonization, two of

308-561: The capture of a slaving vessel of unknown name by Plumper on 19 October 1855. By October 1856 her gun armament was increased to 12 guns. She returned to Home Waters paying off at Portsmouth on 9 December 1856. She recommissioned at Portsmouth on 10 December 1856 under Captain George Henry Richards , RN for service on the Pacific Coast of British North America as a survey ship. During her tenure there she surveyed

330-472: The four primary sub-groups of shíshálh People had principal settlements in lekw’emin. The head of lek’wemin was the primary village site of the x̱enichen people. The name x̱enichen roughly means “go to the end until you can’t go any further” referring to the northern extent of the shíshálh "swiya", or territory. The ts’unay people had their principal village site at ts’unay (Deserted Bay) located approximately 20km south of x̱enichen. George Vancouver named

352-576: The inlet after the 1791–1795 expedition to search for the fabled Northwest Passage . In the Royal Navy tradition, Vancouver named this main waterway after his friend Rear Admiral Sir John Jervis (Earl of St. Vincent) for his victory over the Spanish fleet on February 14, 1797 at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal. He named St. Vincent's Bay (near the entrance of Jervis Inlet) after the location of

374-752: The lower Fraser River , Burrard Inlet , Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast and the waters around Esquimalt and Victoria on Vancouver's Island. The Plumper , having embarked a company of Royal Marines , was involved in the Pig War crisis between the United States and Britain in 1859; along with Tribune , which was commanded by Captain Geoffrey Hornby , the Plumper and HMS Satellite were dispatched by Governor James Douglas to prevent American soldiers from erecting fortifications on San Juan Island and bringing in reinforcements. Francis Brockton

396-409: Was 27 ft 10 in (8.5 m) reported for tonnage was 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m). She had a depth of hold of 14 ft 6 in (4.4 m). Her builder's measure tonnage was 490 tons and displaced 577 tons. Her mean draught was 11 ft 4.5 in (3.5 m). Her machinery was supplied by Miller, Ravenhill & Company. She shipped two rectangular fire tube boilers. Her engine

418-617: Was a 2-cylinder vertical single expansion (VSE) oscillating steam engine with cylinders of 27 in (685.8 mm) in diameter with a 24 in (609.6 mm) stroke, rated at 60 nominal horsepower (NHP). She had a single screw propeller of 9 ft (2.7 m) in diameter. Her main armament consisted of two Blomefield 32-pounder 56 hundredweight (cwt) muzzle loading smooth bore (MLSB) 9.5-foot solid shot guns and six Blomefield (bored up from 18-pounders) 32-pounder 25 cwt MLSB 6-foot solid shot guns on broadside trucks. During steam trials her engine generated 148 indicated horsepower (IHP) for

440-499: Was part of the 1847 programme, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Woolwich Dockyard with the name Pincher . However, the reference Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. College, (c) 2020 there is no entry that associates this name to this build. The vessel was reordered on 12 August as an 8-gun sloop as designed by John Fincham, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth. Launched in 1848, she served three commissions, firstly on

462-468: Was the fifth named vessel since it was introduced for a 12-gun vessel launched by Randall of Rotherhithe on 17 May 1794 and sold in January 1802. Plumper' s keel was laid in October 1847 at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 5 April 1848. Her gundeck was 140 ft 0 in (42.7 m) with her keel length reported for tonnage calculation of 121 ft 10.5 in (37.1 m). Her maximum breadth

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484-583: Was the ship's engineer under Captain Richards when, in 1859, Brockton found a vein of coal in the Vancouver area. After the discovery, which Richards reported to Governor James Douglas , Richards named the area of the find Coal Harbour and named Brockton Point , at the east end of what is now Stanley Park in Vancouver, after Francis Brockton. Commander Anthony Hoskins brought HMS Hecate out to

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