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Q061

Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 in ---Q060 to Q069

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Builder:

Hunter Boats

Orillia, Ont.

Commissioned:

November 11, 1941

Launched:

July 24, 1941

Disposal:

May 7, 1946

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 Concordia and delivered in July 1946 to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Creole Corp. purchased four in all, the others being Esso Ayacucho (Q056), 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 Q061

On watch. Origin unknown

On watch. Origin unknown

 

October 1941. Q061 in the Peterborough (Ontario) liftlock. Parks Canada Liftlock Visitor Center collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 1941. Otonabee River, Ontario.  Kay Hook collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Cullen collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Carriere collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Carriere collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Masanotti collection

John Masanotti collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esso Concordia

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