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Q063

Posted on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in ---Q060 to Q069

q063-1Return by French Free Naval Forces, 1945. Origin unknown

Builder:

Mac-Craft Limited

Sarnia, Ont.

Commissioned:

April 18, 1942

Launched:

December 3, 1941

Disposal:

July 25, 1945

Career:

After her commissioning, she was transferred in January , 1943  along with MLs  52 and 62 to the Free French Naval Forces based at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, under operational control of the Flag Officer, Newfoundland, and renamed  Colombier (VED 113).

Sold October 18, 1945  ($3,000) by WAC to Cdn. Inter-American Associates, MTl.

Sold 1947 to J.G. Escobar, Montreal.

Possibly puchased  from M. Gauthier by Plaid Shipping Ltd. (Rapid Steamship Co.) Montreal as Cumbrae II by September 4,  1959.

Other pictures of Q063

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Cumbrae II

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