James Bowen

James Bowen

Rear Admiral James Bowen (1751-1835) was a British naval officer.

Naval career

Rear Admiral Bowen was master of the HMS Queen Charlotte, the flagship of Richard, Earl Howe at the Glorious First of June, 1794, when she engaged the French flagship "Montagne" of Villaret-Joyeuse and the "Jacobin".

Legacy

In 1860, Bowen Island near Vancouver was renamed after him, by Captain George Henry Richards, in recognition of his part in the June 1794 battle. (It might be thought that the Queen Charlotte Islands, further north in British Columbia, were named after the ship he commanded at the battle. However, they were so-named in 1787, several years before the battle, by Captain George Dixon who was on a trading voyage in the area in a ship called "Queen Charlotte".)


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