Q061
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

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