Apr 6

Q065

Posted on Monday, April 6, 2009 in ---Q060 to Q069

On a sub chase dropping charges off Gaspé. NP1070/James Frost collection

Builder:

J.H. Leblanc Shipbuilding Co.

Weymouth, N.S.

Commissioned:

May 15, 1942

Launched:

October 27, 1941

Disposal:

July 14, 1945

Career:

Sold June 14, 1946 by WAC to Lt.-Col. W.Eric Phillips, Toronto and renamed Nadine II. (#174987). Nadine was the name of his daughter, skating champion who died Feb. 24, 1947 at Toronto.

Eng. : 2 Hall-Scott 1941, petrol engines.

Conversion was done by J.J.Taylor & Sons of Toronto.

Differents owners from 1956 to 1962 then purchased by W.G. McEwen (CEO Chicago Nuts), Aylmer, Ont. and renamed Audrey A (#174987), (his wife’s name).

Eng. : 2 1956 Harnischafeger oil engines.

Differents owners from 1965 to about 1973 and renamed Alex & Sally but never registered. Partly destroyed by fire in 1978 and burnt to the waterline in the lagoon on Rose Island near Parry Sound, Ont.

November 10, 2003, register closed (Transport Canada).

In 2005, some pieces of wreckage were still visible.

“I came across your name while trying to track down info on a particular ship’s remains near our family cottage in Georgian Bay.

The remains in question are in shallow water in a small by on the east end of Rose Island, directly south of Killbear Point in Parry Sound.

The story I’ve heard for years is that the owner of Rose Island, Rodney Watt exchanged the converted Fairmile for a couple of cottage lots on Rose Island but as he was cruising the waters around Georgian Bay he ran aground. He ran it ashore to keep it from sinking and it sat on shore rotting away for a number of years until someone torched it and it burned to the waterline. I first saw it as a shoreline wreck in 1977″. (Bruce Clark, 2013-11-24)

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