Q080
Origin unknown
Builder:J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont. |
Commissionned:June 17, 1942 |
Launched:May 20, 1942 |
Disposal:June 13, 1945 |
Career:
Sold $3,000, october 9, 1945 by WAC to United Boat Corp, J.Leon Israel, New York.
1946, converted to yacht at Toronto and renamed Quarterdeck. Owner: H.B. Prior, Chartsworth Gardens, Larchmont, New York.
Eng: 2 Hall-Scott gasoline engines.
1949-50, owner: Abaco Trading Co. Ltd. Nasseau, Bahamas, and renamed Almeta Queen (U.S. # D249628), have carried freight and possibly mail among the Bahamas as well as crawfish to Florida and freight to and from Cuba.
Eng: 2 Hall-Scott Motor Co. petrol engines.
Owner 1954 : D.H. Bramar, Port O’ Connor, Texas and renamed Cosa Grande.
Eng: 2 GM 1954 oil engines.
1970, Panamanian registry.
1983, deleted from documentation.
August 2007, found abandoned in Panama Delta, Argentina.
Other pictures of Q080
Q080 and Q065 on patrol. Origin unknown
Roger Litwiller-HMCS Trentonian collection
Quarterdeck
Almeta Queen
Almeta Queen model (ex-Q080), built by Vertrum Lowe, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas
Cosa Grande
Taken on the Abra Vieja River at the confluence with Lujan River, Argentina, about 1977-79. Pablo Brinckmann collection
Lihueel Bueno collection
Parana Delta River, Argentina, August 2007. Pablo Brinckmann collection
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