Picture of Q123-MISSING/WANTED

Builder: Vancouver Shipyards Co. North Vancouver, B.C.	Commissioned: June 10, 1944
Launched: March 11, 1944	Disposal: October 3, 1945

Career:

Sold October 2, 1945 for $3,000 by WAC to Hamiltair Ltd., Vancouver and Princess Louisa Inlet,  B.C.

Hamiltair Ltd. acquired a total of 7 Fairmiles for $21,000 (Q122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 129). The owner , Tom Hamilton intended to used the Fairmiles fleet  (after conversion and refurbishing) to handle guests at his resort “Malibu Club” in Princesss Louisa Inlet.

First registered: December 31, 1945 and renamed Malibu Marlin (#176473).

Eng.:  2 Grey Marine oil engines, 450 H.P.

Register closed December 13, 1951, sold to Shellye M. Stoody, Los Angeles, California  and renamed Toluca (USCG #261059).

Owner 1954: William A. Thompson, Los Angeles, California.

Owner 1956: Louis R. Diaz, Pico Riverea, California.

Fate unknown.

Other pictures of Q123

Malibu Marlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toluca