Amphitrite, 1816-1875
According to this private correspondence, the Amphitrite expelled a group of prospectors, of which Easterby was a member, who attempted to unlawfully mine a vein of gold the group had discovered on Haida Gwaii in 1852.
It was constructed of teak at Bombay [Mumbai] and carried 24 guns, and it sailed the BC coast from 1851-1857 under two captains, Charles Frederick and Richard Burridge.1 It was Captain Richards who, in 1859, would name a location after this ship: Amphitrite Point is located on Vancouver Island's west coast, on the southern tip of the Ucluelet Peninsula.2
  • 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 43.
  • 2. Amphitrite Point, BC Geographical Names Information System.
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