Q104
Origin unknown
Builder:Mac-Craft Limited Sarnia, Ont. |
Commissioned:August 4, 1943 |
Launched:July 3, 1943 |
Disposal:September 15, 1945 |
Career:
July 1945, not classed as surplus for WAC.
September 14 1945, loaned to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts as for Q105 and Q107.
April 1947, in hands of J.Severin Langlois (river pilot), Savoy Shipping Ltd., Quebec, (owned also Q059, Q096 and Q105).
August 1951, reacquired by DND for Naval Reserves, HMCS Cataraqui, Kingston, Ontario and renamed PTC704 then Cougar.
January 1956, transferred to HMCS Star, Hamilton, Ontario as “tender” and paid off Novemebr 4, 1956.
About 1957, moved by land to the Dundas Branch of the Navy League for their Sea Cadets as “club house” (at the Desjardins Canal, north side of Hamilton Harbour), (RCSCC Dundas Sea Cadets).
Scrapped there in the late 70s.
Other pictures of Q104
Origin unknown
Cougar PTC 704
Hamilton,Ontario 1952. PTC704 on the left. Hamilton Public Library collection
PTC 704. Origin unknown
PTC 704. Origin unknown
Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection
Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection
Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection
Cougar PTC 704 (as “club house” for Dundas Sea Cadets)
October 1963, PTC704 as club house. Paul E. Brown collection
October 20-1963. Sea cadet Paul E. Brown, HMCS Cougar, Paul E. Brown collection
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