04/03/2003 · Vancouver, George (1758-1798) George Vancouver was an important explorer of Puget Sound. He served for 25 years in the British Navy, and commanded the 1791-1792 British expedition to the North Pacific. In April 1792, George Vancouver entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca and commenced his exploration of Puget Sound.

In 1792, Great Britain became the first European nation to explore Puget Sound when an expedition under the command of Capt. George Vancouver entered from the Strait of Juan de Fuca and spent two months exploring the inland waters. Vancouver was only 34 years old in 1792, but he was a veteran explorer and familiar with the Northwest, having ...

In 1791-1795, Vancouver led the most thorough scientific maritime exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America, which included the creation and publication of detailed maps of the coastlines of present-day Oregon and Washington and the complex waterways of Puget Sound. Vancouver and his officers laid down dozens of place-names in the ...

Vancouver's Anchorages on Puget Sound BY ROBERT B. WHITEBROOK The expedition of Captain George Vancouver to Puget Sound in 1792 is an event in Washing-ton history which is unusually well documented. His charts are done carefully and in detail. His account of the voyage, supplemented by the collateral journals, gives a wealth of informa-

THE VANCOUVER EXPEDITION: PETER PUGET'S JOURNAL OF THE EXPLORATION OF PUGET SOUND MAY 7-JUNE 11, 1792* At the time of Captain George Vancouver's discovery of Puget Sound in 1792, Lieutenant Peter Puget was second lieu-tenant (third in command) of Vancouver's flagship, the sloop Discovery, which was accompanied by the armed tender Chat-

12/12/2020 · In 1792 George Vancouver gave the name “Puget’s Sound” to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, in honor of Peter Puget, a Huguenot lieutenant accompanying him on the Vancouver Expedition. This name later came to be used for …