Q056
Origin unknown
Builder:Greavette Boats Limited Gravenhurst, Ont. |
Commissioned:November 24, 1941 |
Launched:October 20, 1941 |
Disposal:June 10, 1945 |
Career:
Purchased early 1946 by C.C.Pratt Co., Montreal, for conversion by Montreal Dry Docks Limited and sold ($7,900) to Creole Petroleum Corp., Caracas, Venezuela (subsidiary of Standard Oil of N.J. ) (Esso).
After conversion, renamed Esso Ayacucho and delivered in July 1946 to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Creole Corp. purchased four in all, the others being Esso Concordia (Q061), Esso Cardonal (Q078), and Esso Taparita (Q081) and intends to use them for carrying work crews to the oil derricks (about 27 miles from shore).
Scrapped about 1957.
Other pictures of Q056
Origin unknown
Kathy Cullen collection
Esso Ayacucho
Esso Ayacucho in La Salina, Venezuela around 1948-49. Steve Sleightholm collection
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