The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
HMS Collingwood, 1841-1867
The Collingwood was a Royal Navy third-rate sailing ship.1 It was 58 m long, 17 m wide and carried 80 guns.2 This wooden two-deck ship housed 750 men, and from 1844-48 it was the flagship of
Rear-Admiral George Francis Seymour in the Pacific.3