Known for fearless seamanship, Jones once navigated the deadly Columbia River Bar from memory and famously escaped jail in disguise to reclaim his seized schooner, Jenny Jones. –Just off the coast of Cadboro Bay, Victoria, lies an islet jutting out of the sea — Jemmy Jones Island, an oftenoverlooked place carrying the legacy of one of British Columbia’s most audacious mariners. James ( Jemmy) Jones (1830–1882) was a Welsh-born sea captain whose life was filled with daring West Coast escapes and shipwrecks. The islet was soon dubbed Jemmy Jones Island, a name that endures on nautical charts and local maps to this day. Eventually imprisoned for debt in Victoria, Jones watched as his beloved schooner, Jenny Jones, was seized by creditors in 1865.