page_title: HMS Plumper (1848)
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Plumper (1848) / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The officers of HMS PlumperStanding: Dr David Lyall, Paymaster W H J Brown, Capt Richards, Master w:Daniel Pender; Seated: Master E P Bedwell, Lt Mayne, Mrs Mary Richards, Lt W Moriarity (December 1860)
context_page_description: HMS Plumper was an 8-gun wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy, the fifth and last ship to bear the name. Launched in 1848, she served three commissions, firstly on the West Indies and North American Station, then on the West Africa Station and finally in the Pacific Station. It was during her last commission as a survey ship that she left her most enduring legacy; in charting the west coast of British Columbia she left her name and those of her ship's company scattered across the charts of the region. She paid off for the last time in 1861 and was finally sold for breaking up in 1865.
context_section_description: Several significant features of the coast of British Columbia are named after Plumper, including Plumper Sound in the Southern Gulf Islands region of British Columbia and Plumper Cove at Keats Island (from which Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park takes its name). Other features were named after the ship's company, including:
  Campbell River, British Columbia for Dr Samuel Campbell, the ship's surgeon.
  Pender Island and Pender Harbour, British Columbia for Daniel Pender.
  Mayne Island for Lieutenant Richard Charles Mayne.
  Brockton Point for the ship's engineer, Francis Brockton.
  Mudge Island for William Fitzwilliam Mudge, a ship's officer.
  An image of the ship appears on the coat-of-arms of the town of Sidney on southern Vancouver Island.
caption: The officers of HMS Plumper
  Standing: Dr David Lyall, Paymaster W H J Brown, Capt Richards, Master Daniel Pender; Seated: Master E P Bedwell, Lt Mayne, Mrs Mary Richards, Lt W Moriarity (December 1860)
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