HMS Plumper

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The "long black creature" sighted by the crew of the HMS Plumper off the Portuguese coast in 1848.
The "long black creature" sighted by the crew of the HMS Plumper off the Portuguese coast in 1848.

HMS Plumper was a screw surveying ship in the Royal Navy. Commanded by Captain George Henry Richards between 1857 and 1859, HMS Plumper was used to survey the coast of British Columbia. A painting of the ship, showing it moored in Port Harvey, Johnstone Strait, done by J.A. Startin in the 1860s, is in the British Columbia Archives; it shows three masts and one funnel. An image of the ship appears on the coat-of-arms of the town of Sidney on southern Vancouver Island.

HMS Plumper, carrying 21 guns and a company of Royal Marines, was involved in the Pig War crisis between the United States and Britain in 1859; along with the HMS Tribune, which was commanded by Captain Geoffrey Hornby, Plumper was dispatched by Governor James Douglas to prevent American soldiers from erecting fortifications on San Juan Island and bringing in reinforcements.

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