David Vaughan (died c. 1720) was a

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

captain who sailed with

George Berley George Berley (died ca. 1720) was a Hudson's Bay Company captain. He was in command of the HBC ship ''Albany'' with the James Knight expedition seeking the Northwest Passage in 1719. Along with the ship ''Discovery'', captained by David Vaughan ...

under the overall command of the explorer James Knight on an ill-fated expedition to discover the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arct ...

. Capt. David Vaughan was aboard the ''Discovery'' with Knight, the expedition leader. We know that they were shipwrecked at

Marble Island Marble Island is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada, located within western Hudson Bay. The closest community is Rankin Inlet. In the nineteenth century, the island was valued as a harbour for overwintering. ...

, along with the ''Albany'' and Capt. Berley. The remains of the camp where they all perished, were discovered many years later by the explorer,

Samuel Hearne Samuel Hearne (February 1745 – November 1792) was an English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, actually Coronation Gulf, via the C ...

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* Explorers of Canada Hudson's Bay Company people Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 1720s deaths {{Canada-business-bio-stub