Cadboro (1824 schooner)
Cadboro (or Cadborough) was a schooner launched at Rye in 1824. The Hudson's Bay Company purchased her in 1826 and sold her in 1860. She grounded and was destroyed shortly thereafter. Career. "Cadboro" first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" ("LR") in 1824 with T. Rubie, master, C. Hicks, owner, and trade Leith coaster. In 1826 the Hudson's Bay Company purchased her for £800 for the fur trade from the Pacific Northwest Coast. On 25 September she sailed for the Columbia River in company with another Hudson's Bay Company vessel, . "Cadboro" arrived on the  coast in May 1827. From there she sailed north, and then south to Monterrey. In 1828 the Cadboro was used in an asymmetric use of force by HBC Chief Factor John McLoughlin against the S'Klallam tribe after an earlier raid. In the early morning, under the command of Alexander McCleod, the Cadboro fired its cannons into a village near Port Townsend, killing twenty-seven people and leveling the village. In 1842 James Douglas (later Sir James Douglas, Governor of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia) and six other company staff traveled from Fort Vancouver overland to Fort Nisqually  on Puget Sound. "Cadboro" sailed north to reconnoitre the location of what would become Fort Camosun, shortly afterwards renamed Fort Victoria. "Cadboro" was the first vessel to anchor in Cadboro Bay, British Columbia and was the namesake of that bay and the community named for it, and adjoining Cadboro Point. In 1846, "Cadboro" was chartered to transport the survivors of the shipwreck of schooner to California. She left in January and returned on 17 February 1847. In 1850 she was accused of transporting 10 deserters of the United States. A few days later "Cadboro" became the first Hudson's Bay  Company vessel to be seized US Customs for non-payment of duties for goods. She was seized by US authorities at Nisqually. Fate. "Cadboro" was sold in 1860 to a Captain Howard after being laid up in harbour since 1857. She was later lost in October the same year (or in October 1862), while on a lumber voyage from Puget Sound. The captain successfully beached the ship, but it was destroyed by the surf. Citations and references. Citations References