Person Profile

Blackburn, David

Also Known As: Lucky

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Biography

He was a fisherman on the Columbia River.

He was the Master of the Montserrat, lost in a gale in the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 12/1893. Part of the wreckage was found by the Maude S. at Rose inlet in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 05/1895.

Named Features

Blackburn Peninsula (BC)

References

  • Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
  • Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)

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