Mount St. Helens: Some Indians of the Pacific Northwest variously called Mount St. Helens “Louwala-Clough, or “smoking mountain or fire mountain.” In 1792 Capt. George Vancouver of the British Royal Navy, a seafarer and explorer named it in honor of a fellow countryman, Alleyne Fitzherbert, who held the title Baron St. Helens and who was at the time the British Ambassador to Spain. Vancouver also named three other volcanoes in the Cascades, Mount Baker, Mount Hood and Mount Rainier, for British naval officers.