Roy Woodruff/ Naval Museum of Quebec collection

Career:

September 29, 1945, sold by WAC for $3,000 to Joseph B. Dunkelman c/o Tip Top Tailors, Toronto, Ontario.

December 11, 1946, 1st registry and renamed Dipedon (# 177801).

October 14, 1949, sold to Nipigon Lake Timber Co. Ltd., Port Arthur, Ontario and renamed Donarvie II.

March 11, 1954, register closed, sold foreign.

May 1954, owner: Ben Shulman Associates, New-York.

About 1958, owner: Gilbert O. Weidman, St. Petersburg, Florida.  U.S. #267095.

February 21, 1963, documentation surrendered, vessel dismantled.

Other pictures of Q099

Royal Canadian Navy collection (F-1008)

Dipedon

July 03, 1948. The Belleville Intelligencer, Prince Edward County Archives collection

Donarvie II

Origin unknown

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

Origin unknown

Career:

Sold October 10, 1945 by WAC to Marine Manufacturing Construction Co., Vancouver, B.C. and renamed Machigonne (#176475).

Owner 1945-48:  Radium Chemical Co. , Vancouver (converted to transport workmen).

1948 -Sold to Gibson Brothers of Sea Bus Lines  and used as a ferry from Horseshoe Bay (northwest of Vancouver) to Gibson’s Landing.

1951 -Sold to Black Ball Ferries Ltd., Victoria, to run as a passenger ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale but never used.

1952-Sold to Gulf Line Ltd., Vancouver and renamed  Gulf Ranger.

Owner 1954:  William Clark Gibson, Vancouver.

1957-Sold to Johnston Strait Enterprises Ltd., Sointula, Malcom Island, B.C. and renamed Coast Ranger.

1958-60 Registration returned to W.Clark Gibson.

1960- Sold to Toni Parrot Bothwell, West Vancouver and renamed Saracen III.

1961-Sold to Pacific Cruises Ltd., North Vancouver (for cargo).

1972-Sold to Halger M. Ohman, Ohman Boatyards, New Westminster, B.C. and renamed Lahaina Lady.  He made extensive repairs, added the main and wheelhouse decks. The Ohmans lived on the boat for many years but never carried him to sea.

1993-Sold to Jim Hunt. He completed the electronics, made it seaworthy and brought it to the Queen Charlotte Islands.This was the first time that the boat had moved under it’s own power for 21 years.

1994-2002 The boat was moored at Port Edward, Prince Rupert, B.C.

May 2003-Sold to John J.Boyd, Campbell River, B.C. and renamed Noble Lady. Moored at The Discovery Harbour Marina, Campbell River where the Boyds live aboard. (author’s visit april 2015)

June 2022-Sold to Tom Steinner Gibsons, B.C. and registered as Machigonne.

Coast Reporter March2023, Why is that old boat in Gibsons Harbour? – Coast Reporter

Other pictures of Q070

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Machigonne

John Boyd collection

Gary Little collection

Origin unknown

Gulf Ranger

John Boyd collection

Coast Ranger

Saracen III

Lahaina Lady

The Discovery Harbour Marina, Campbell River, B.C. Jan. 2006. John Boyd collection

Origin unknown

Noble Lady

Campbell River, B.C. Oct. 08, 2013, Dirk Septer collection

Fisherman’s Wharf, Campbell River, B.C. Author’s visit, April 26. 2015. Author collection

Fisherman’s Wharf, Campbell River, B.C. Author’s visit, April 26. 2015. Author collection

Origin unknown

Career:

During the wartime was named Mariposa Belle and was the only Fairmile permitted to be named because it was the first Fairmile of the RCN to be launched in Canada.

Sold November 24, 1945 by WAC to Bernard O. Bessette, St-Jean, Quebec.

Fate unknown.

Other pictures of Q060

1942, Job’s Cove, Conception Bay, Nfld. Library and Archives Canada collection

at-the-Wabana-Iron-Ore-Mines-ore-loading-pier-Bell-Island-Newfoundland-and-Labrador-c1944-1945.-Library-and-Archives-Canada-Photo-MIKAN-

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Hunter Boats, Orillia Ont. Sept 1941. Al Mann collection

St-John’s Nfld., origin unknown

Berthed at Hunter Boats, Orillia, Ont. Haskill collection, Hurona Museum

Trent-Severn Waterway, Young’s Point, October 1941. Credit: Peterborough Examiner, December 3, 2013

Converted Fairmile Unknown

Midland Boat Works, Midland, Ontario, Summer 1942. Origin unknown

Career:

Sold 1946 to Louis Levin, Montreal, Quebec.

Purchased early 1946 by C.C.Pratt Co., Montreal, for conversion by Montreal Dry Docks Limited and sold (7900$)  to Creole Petroleum Corp., Caracas, Venezuela (subsidiary of Standard Oil of N.J. ) (Esso).

After conversion, renamed Esso Taparita and delivered in July 1946 to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Creole Corp. purchased four in all, the others being Esso Ayacucho (Q056), Esso Concordia (Q061), and Esso cardonal (Q078) and intends to use them for carrying work crews to the oil derricks (about 27 miles from shore).

1948-on fire, beached, constructive total loss.

Other pictures of Q081

Origin unknown

Esso Taparita

Lake Maracaibo, La Salina, Venezuela, 1946. Esso, The Ships Bulletin, January - February 1947

H.W. Patterson collection

Career:

Sold November 2, 1945 by WAC to Gulf Lines Ltd. Vancouver and renamed Gulf Wing (#176497).

Owner 1954:  Marine Express Lines Ltd., Vancouver, as passenger and small-freight service , West Coast and Gulf Islands.

Eng. :  2 Vivian Eng. Works, Vancouver oil engines 640 H.P.

Feb., 1958 – Sunk near Alert Bay, B.C. raised and sold.

Owner 19??: Oswald H. New & Co., Vancouver. Renamed Troubadour III.

Owner 19??: Tidewater Shipping Co. Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Nimpkish Princess.

Owner 1969:  Northland Shipping (1962) Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Northland Princess, as a yacht.

Owner 1980:  Pacific Adventures Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Kona Winds, as a yacht.

Owner 2002:  Kona Winds Yacht Charter Ltd.( capt.Bruce Kerr), Vancouver.

website: www.konawindscharters.com

Sept. 2009-  Moored in Gibsons, B.C.

Owner June 3, 2011: 0908312 B.C. Ltd. Powell River B.C. and  renamed Knight Time II.  Used as a base camp for a log sort in Hotham Sound, B.C.

Dec. 2015: rumor heard recentky that the boat had sunk but no details.

Other pictures of Q071

Star Shipyards, New-Westminster, B.C., summer 1942, H.W. Patterson collection

Gulf Wing

Gerald Rushton collection-Illustrated History of the Union Steamship Company

Off Powell River B.C. origin unknown

West Vancouver Art Museum collection

Troubadour III

Nimpkish Princess

Vancouver Dec. 27, 1960. City of Vancouver Archives (CVA 447-7173) / Walter E. Frost collection

Northland Princess

July 17, 1964. City of Vancouver Archives (CVA 447-7173.1) / Walter E. Frost collection

Kona Winds

Don Houghton collection

August 25, 1985. Cruising in Vancouver, B.C. René Beauchamp collection

Barbara Coast Marina, Vancouver, B.C. September 2002. Author collection

Setember 2002, the author at  wheel of Kona Winds on the way back from Indian Arm, Vancouver, B.C. Author collection

Vancouver, B.C. Origin unknown

Knight Time II

Origin unknown

Career:

Purchased early 1946 by C.C.Pratt Co., Montreal, for conversion by Montreal Dry Docks Limited and sold ($7,900)  to Creole Petroleum Corp., Caracas, Venezuela (subsidiary of Standard Oil of N.J. ) (Esso).

After conversion, renamed Esso Concordia and delivered in July 1946 to Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Creole Corp. purchased four in all, the others being Esso Ayacucho (Q056), Esso Cardonal (Q078), and Esso Taparita (Q081) and intends to use them for carrying work crews to the oil derricks (about 27 miles from shore).

Scrapped about 1957.

Other pictures of Q061

On watch. Origin unknown

October 1941. Q061 in the Peterborough (Ontario) liftlock. Parks Canada Liftlock Visitor Center collection

October 1941. Otonabee River, Ontario.  Kay Hook collection

Kathy Cullen collection

David Carriere collection

David Carriere collection

John Masanotti collection

Esso Concordia

Off Rimouski, Quebec, October 1942. Origin unknown

Career:

September 7, 1944. Explosion in engine room alongside naval jetty, Gaspé, Quebec.

Transferred to the command of NOIC Gaspé,  September 16, 1944 and decommisioned October 6, 1944.

Sold May 22, 1945,  by WAC to Stanley C. Alexander, Gaspé,  hull only.

1947, sold to Walter A. Kruse.

Owner 1948, Joseph Poirier (a local policeman) and his grandfather Valmont Poirier, Gaspé.  As a floating dance hall.

194?, sold foreign.

Other pictures of Q082

Midland Boat Works, Midland, Ontario, Summer 1942. Origin unknown

Off Rimouski, Quebec, October 1942. Origin unknown

November 8, 1944, broadside view, damage caused by explosion. Library and Archives Canada/ PA-137794

Converted Fairmile Unknown

Origin unknown

Career:

Sold October 24, 1945 by WAC to Acme Boat & Salvage Co., New-York, N.Y.

Fate unknown.

Other pictures of Q072

Q072 & 073 at St-John, N.B. on VE-Day, Angus Kenning collection

LT John Joynt and Sub Lt John Dobbs on the bridge. Kevin Joynt collection

Allan Jamieson collection

Converted Fairmile Unknown

Origin unknown

Career:

After her commissioning, she was transferred on January 16,  1943 along with MLs  52 and 63 to the Free French Naval Forces based at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, under operational control of the Flag Officer, Newfoundland, and renamed  Langlade  (VED 112).

Returned 1946 and sold ($3,000) by WAC to Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel, Quebec.

December 30, 1947, still at Sorel not in operation.

Re-acquired September 1949 for Naval Reserves, HMCS Hunter, Windsor, Ont. and renamed Wolf, ex-PTC-762. Used as training vessel for sea cadets.

Sold in 1956 by RCN to Harold Paine a Port Stanley fisherman intending to re-rig her for lake fishing but the plan never materialized.

Purchased in 1957 by Eriau Drydock & Shipbuilding, Eriau, Ont. Late in 1959, almost turned into a restaurant.

About 1963, purchased by Orville Gold of Blenheim, Ont., used as breakwater after filling it with sand and placing it on the beach with the intent of preventing further erosion along the property waterfront. After years of  pounding by Lake Erie wave action, the hull was obliterated in shoreline sand.  In its place a steel hull replaced the Fairmile and remains today(visit Sept.24, 2005)

Other pictures of Q062

Origin unknown

James D. Frost collection

St-Pierre et Miquelon,origin unknown

St-Pierre et Miquelon, origin unknown

St-Pierre et Miquelon, origin unknown

St-Pierre et Miquelon, origin unknown

Wolf PTC 762

PTC 762 Wolf, Amherstburg, Ont. Gerry Ouderkirk collection

PTC 762. Origin unknown

Members of the Essex Scottish Regiment on the deck of the PTC 762 during Operation Beaver at Port Stanley, Ont. June 5,1950. Windsor Star collection

PTC 762 Eriau Drydock & Shipbuilding, Ont. 1956. Gerry Ouderkirk collection

PTC 762, Eriau, Ont. 1956. Gerry Ouderkirk collection

PTC 762 Wolf -Patrol Training Craft at Detroit, Michigan c.1950’s . Paul Edward collection

Ex-PTC 762 Wolf, used as a breakwater, Blenheim, Ont. c.1963. Gwen Gold and Alan Mann collection