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Tonquin disaster

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The anchor to the Tonquin was found here in Templar Channel which verifies the site where the ship exploded.  

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Tonquin

The Tonquin was an American merchant ship involved with the Maritime Fur Trade of the early 19th Century. The ship was used by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company to establish fur trading outposts on the Northwest Coast of North America, including Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. The 290-ton bark was destroyed and sunk at Clayoquot Sound a few weeks after leaving the Columbia River after a dispute with one of the groups who now make up the Tla-o-qui-aht, the indigenous people of the sound.

References

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonquin
  • Page 6 - Philbrick, N., 2003, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery The U.S. Exploring Expedition: Penquin, New York, 452p.
  • Page 281 - Stark, P., 2014, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival: Ecco, 362p.
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