Biografía
He went to sea at age of sixteen with his father Captain Eben J. Locke on the West Indies run.
He was involved in the coasting trade and as Mate and Master in the Western Ocean. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner).
He joined the Red Star Line Steamship Co. 1882-1889 as Third and Second Officer obtaining hydrographic data for the production of navigational charts for the North Atlantic. Afterwards he went to British Columbia as first Officer in the steamer West Indian.
He speculated, unsuccessfully, on the mining boom in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
He was Master of the steamship Wellington and later First Officer in the Lorne before becoming Master 1893-1900.
He was Master of the Princess Alice.
In 1909 he served as Master of the Princess Royal for the CPR.
He served as Master of the Princess Sophia. On October 25, 1918 he was drowned in the wreck of the Princess Sophia en route from Skagway travelling south on Vanderbilt Reef.
Lugares nombrados
Locke Shoal (BC)
Referencias
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
- Bailey, Ruth Greene (1977)
- Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
- Rogers, F. (1992)
- BCELP Geographical Place Names Cards Correspondence To/From BC Chief Geographer
- Harbour & Shipping (May 1977)
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
- Margot Dixon (Email to Nauticapedia 21/06/2023)
