Adopted 15 April 1946 on C.306, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart #48.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Named in 1891 by the Hydrographic Office, British Admiralty, after the British merchant steamer Danube, Captain William Meyer, which vessel struck this rock, hitherto unknown, in April 1891. An iron vessel, she was built at Govan, near Glasgow in 1869 for the Scottish Oriental Steamship Company and was one of the first merchant vessels to pass through the Suez Canal, which was opened 31 January 1865. Purchased in 1890 by the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, and in 1904 became the property by purchase of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which took over in that year the business of the former company. Purchased in 1905 by the British Columbia Salvage Company for salvage purposes and renamed Salvor."

Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)

"...While with the Scottish Oriental SS Company, she was one of the British steamers replacing the "tea clippers" between China and London, and was the first tea-laden vessel to pass through the Suez Canal. In 1873 she was selected by the Government to bring home the body of the famous explorer, Dr. Livingstone, from Africa to interment in Westminster Abbey....

Source: Middleton, Lynn; Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast; Elldee Publishing Company, Victoria, 1969