On April 29, 1792, two ships carrying around 150 British sailors lingered off the coast of what is now Washington State. It had taken more than a year for the Discovery and the Chatham to make it ...

Back in May 1792, Captain George Vancouver led the first European expedition into what are now the Washington waters of Puget Sound. He and his crew came across the entrance to a body of water ...

Vancouver kept heading north for the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound. And so it was on May 11, 1792, at about 8 a.m. that Captain Robert Gray successfully crossed the bar and sailed about ...

He thought he had found the only surviving relic from Capt. George Vancouver’s historic 1792 voyage into Puget Sound. It was a barnacle-encrusted anchor in 45 feet of water just offshore in ...

How Captain George Vancouver ... so its leaders commissioned a Vancouver-led expedition to map ... why you see very little warring occurring between a lot of the tribes here around the Puget Sound.