Peter Puget, after whom
Puget Sound, Puget Bluff, and Puget Cove are named, was a British naval officer. He joined the
Royal Navy in 1778, and in 1783 he met
Captain George Vancouver while assigned to the
HMS Europa in the West Indies.
1 Puget was 2nd lieutenant to
Vancouver on board the
Discovery during
Vancouver’s explorations of the West Coast in 1792, and was later promoted to 1st lieutenant.
2 Vancouver named
Puget Sound,
to commemorate Mr Puget’s exertions
.
3
Puget died in Bath, England on October 31, 1822.4