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Q050

Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 in ---Q050 to Q059

q050-1

May 1943, anti-sub exercises. Large black flag indicates radio asdic contact.

Origin unknown

Builder:

Midland Boat Works

Midland, Ont.

Commissioned:

November 18, 1941

Launched:

August 22, 1941

Disposal:

July 8, 1945

Career:

The first of a serie of 80 type B Fairmiles built for the RCN in December 1940, on the 1940-41 program 24 were ordered (ML 050 to 073).

Sold November 16, 1945 ($7,900) by War Assets Corporation (WAC) to Marine Industries Ltd. Sorel (MIL) and returned for resale to Consolidated Shipbuilding Ltd., Morris Heights, N.Y.

In 1946, resold to Standard Oil Bahamas Ltd. (Bermuda) and renamed  Stanba I (#176991). Used for offshore geomagnetic surveying in Bahamas.

Reg’d: Nasseau, Bahamas.

Eng.: 2  Hall-Scott Motor Co.  petrol engines.

Other pictures of Q050

q050-4

Gaspé, July 1942

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C.D.Howe Minister of Munitions and Supply and Capt.Joseph Heenan, captain of the MLs.

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St-Margaret’s Bay, N.S., Spring 1943

WO-A057319

Origin Unknown

Patchell family collection

Patchell family collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanba I

Christian Sheppard collection


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