Origin unknown

Builder: Greavette Boats Limited Gravenhurst, Ont.	Commissionned: October 15, 1942
Launched: October 1, 1942	Disposal: June 29, 1945

Career:

Sold October 29, 1945 by WAC to Northern Engineering & Supply Co., Fort William, Ontario.

First registered, December 10, 1946 and renamed Coastal Queen (#177961).

Eng:  2 Hercules Motor Corp., oil engines, 330 H.P.

Used for passengers,  scheduled service between Fort William – Port Arthur and Rock Harbor, Isle Royale, Ontario(48 miles),  also for chartered trips and for moonlight excursions, from June to September.

Sold July 1957 to Scurry-Rainbow Oil Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, as a mineral survey ship to the Baffin Land and Hudson’s Bay areas. (Owner, billionaire Howard Hughes).

Owner (June 8, 1959): Pelletier Engineering Ltd., Montreal, Quebec.

Owner (August 1962): Bruce R.P. Parsons, Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a survey ship.

Owner (May 9, 1969): Irving Saunders, Ottawa, Ontario  & T. Weather-proofers Ltd., as a pleasure yacht.

Sold about 1972 to Robert J. Saunders, Toronto, and renamed Grande Commander.

Owner (1980): T.Weather-proofers Ltd., Toronto, then semi-submerged at Leslie St. spit.

Owner ( Nov.1984): Stephen Richardson, Toronto.

Sold 1985 to Baccarat Yacht Charters Ltd., Stephen Kwinter, Toronto, aa a charter yacht and renamed Corniche.

Owner (1989): Ray Shoals, pres. Evgo Co.Welland, Ont., project for a floating restaurent but never confirmed.

2002- Corniche was towed from Port Maitland to Port Dover by Nadro Marine. Bought by Harry Gamble Sr.

December 3, 2007, suspended from registry (Transport Canada).

June 10, 2009, visit by the author, Corniche is still mooring in Harry Gamble’s yard.

Dismantled in 2018 at a wrecker’s yard in Ontario.

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Coastal Queen

In the 50’s, sale flyer Thunder Bay Boat Company, Port Arthur, Ontario.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grande Commander

Corniche

Port Maitland, Ontario, 1990-2002. Gerry Ouderkirk collection