Q098
Q098, second from left. Origin unknown
Builder:Grew Boats LImited Penetang, Ont. |
Commissioned:November 7, 1942 |
Launched:October 24, 1942 |
Disposal:July 7, 1945 |
Career:
October 10, 1945, sold $3,000 by WAC to Irénée Sicard, Montreal, Quebec and renamed Corita (#179262).
Eng. : 2 Buda 1946 oil engines 480 H.P. (used in Sicard commercial snowblowers).
1948, sold to Rimouski Arts and Trades School, c/o Benoit Ste-Marie, Secretary, to be used as training vessel for sea cadets at the Naval School at Rimouski, Québec and renamed Le St.Barnabé.
Spring 1950, conversion at St-Laurent Shipyard, Island of Orleans, Quebec.
April 15, 1959, renamed Bic and replaced by another steel vessel renamed also Le St.Barnabé.
June 1961, Bic, broken up at St-Laurent , Island of Orleans, Quebec. Certificate cancelled, june16,1961.
Other pictures of Q098
Q098, at left. Origin unknown
Corita
Autumn 1949, at St-Laurent Shipyard, Island Of Orleans before conversion (except her new name on the hull). Jean Ouellet collection
Le St.Barnabé
Off Rimouski, calendar 1950's
René Beauchamp collection
Naval training ship, St.Barnabé
1956, docking at Chicoutimi, Québec. Office Provincial de Publicité (#210197)
1956, Chicoutimi, Quebec. Office Provincial de Publicité (#210203)
Bic
1959, St-Laurent Shipyard, Island of Orleans. La Patrie, July 26,1959
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