Vancouver Belle (schooner)

The Vancouver schooner Vancouver Belle, Capt. W. H. Copp, was captured with 700 skins aboard by the Russian man-of-war Zabraka, twenty miles off Copper Island, July 12th, and taken with her crew to Petropaulovski, where after slight detention the men were sent home in the Rosie Olsen. The Russians refused to return the Belle, which was a very fine schooner. E. W. Wright, A Brief History of the British Columbia Sealing Industry, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.440.

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