Digby Wharf, Nova-Scotia. Origin unknown

Builder: Minett-Shields Ltd. Bracebridge, Ont.	Commissionned: June 22, 1942
Launched: May 12, 1942	Disposal: July 17, 1945

Career:

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

Fate unknown.

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Converted Fairmile Unknown

(E2532). Origin unknown

Builder: Vancouver Shipyards Co. Vancouver, B.C.	Commissioned: March 6, 1942
Launched: July 12, 1941	Disposal: October 12, 1945

Career:

Sold October 10, 1945 by WAC to Finning Tractor  & Equipment Co. Vancouver, B.C. and renamed Earlmar (#176481).

Owner 1951: Ferry Meat Market Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.

Owners (1958- 1980+) :  Robert J. Taylor and Ronald Y. Sparrow, Vancouver, B.C. (as a yacht).

March 10, 2008, suspended from registry (Transport Canada).

December 24, 2010, register closed (Transport Canada).

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Earlmar

Picture of Q087-MISSING/WANTED

Builder: J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont.	Commissionned: November 9, 1942
Launched: October 29, 1942	Disposal: June 29, 1945

Career:

Sold 1946 and renamed Chef Tek8erimat (#156658).

Owner (1948),  Jules R. Tremblay, Owner, c/o Northern Industries, Chicoutimi, Quebec.

Owner (1953), Frank Calder, Hampstead, Québec.

Owner ( September 30 1955), George Lapenson, c/o CBC, Montreal.

Owner (1958), Aubrey P. Gonsalves, Montreal, (also owner of Q086) and renamed Tzigane.

Eng: 2 Hall-Scott petrol engines.

Owner (1969), Pierre Jauvin, Laval, Quebec. As a cargo barge, non-powered.

Owner (2004), René Gabriel Allan Pisano, Outremont, Quebec. Non-powered, no engines.

March 10, 2008, suspended from registry (Transport Canada).

 

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Missing /Wanted

Chef Tek8(o)erimat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tzigane

Al Clark collection

Builder: Greavette Boats Limited Gravenhurst, Ont.	Commissionned: June 2, 1942
Launched: May 12, 1942	Disposal: July 17, 1945

Career:

Sold October 23, 1945 to Consolidated  Shipping Corp.,  c/o Marine Industries Ltd, Sorel ,Quebec.

Sold 1947 to Coastal Shipping Corp.

Fate unknown.

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Converted Fairmile Unknown

Taken off Vancouver. H.W.Patterson collection

Builder: Vancouver Shipyards Co. Vancouver, B.C.	Commissioned: March 27, 1942
Launched: November 27, 1941	Disposal: October 10, 1945

Career:

Sold October 10, 1945 by WAC to Coal Island Ltd., Sydney, B.C.

Registered in Victoria, B.C. June 11, 1946 and renamed Stanger II (#176672).

Eng. :  2 1946 GM diesel engines 1000 H.P.

The owner until 1963 was Capt. Fred E. Lewis of Coal Island. Stranger II was sold in 1963 when the Captain passed away.  Soon after, caught fire in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and sank.

Transfer to U.S. registry  January 3, 1964 and lost by fire in September 1966.

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Missing/Wanted

Stranger II

Origin unknown

Builder: J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont.	Commissionned: May 10, 1943
Launched: May 10, 1942	Disposal: June 22, 1945

Career:

Sold September 18, 1945 by WAC to W.F. Christie, Toronto, Ontario  for $3,000 and renamed Eighty-Eight (# 174989).

Eng: 2 Hall-Scott, petrol engines.

Owner (1952-67): Peter Lepage, Toronto & Penetanguishne, Ontario,  renamed Penetang Eighty-Eight (July 1954) . Re-engined with diesels (1964).

Owner (1967-1975):  R.J. Frame & Sons Ltd., Toronto.

Eng:  2 GM 6 cyl. diesel engines, 330H.P.

Used as supply and passenger ferry up eastern Georgian Bay shore, Penetanguishne to Wah-Wah-Taysee. Traded in (Fall of 1976)  to Marlin Yachts of Gananoque who built a new boat for Jack Frame (Miss Midland).

Sold May 30, 1974 to Kingston & The Islands Boat Lines Ltd. , Kingston, Ontario and renamed Olympia III.

March 20, 1975, sank in the Gananoque River at Gananoque, Ontario.  It was berthed in the Gananoque River, for a refit and overhaul I believe, in the spring of 1975 when it was hit by a log coming downriver and sank at the dock. It was later refloated.

Sold to some sea cadets from Hamilton and almost sunk again going up Lake Ontario. It was pumped out and  patched up by a dive contractor who took possession for the vessel  because unpaid bills. Moored in Hamilton at the CSL dock where he was living on it and attempting to restore it ( around 1979-1980).

Reportedly burnt, no records, possible the ML seen beached and abandonned at Lachine, Quebec.

July 23, 1998, register closed (Transport Canada).

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Eighty-Eight

Penetang Eighty-Eight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Midland Penetang Eighty-Eight

Olympia III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Off St-John’s Nfld. Origin unknown

Builder: Greavette Boats Limited Gravenhurst, Ont.	Commissionned: June 2, 1942
Launched: May 6, 1942	Disposal: July 17, 1945

Career:

Sold october 19, 1945 to George Elie, Transit Tankers &Terminals Ltd., Montreal.

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 Cardonal 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 Taparita (Q081) and intends to use them for carrying work crews to the oil derricks (about 27 miles from shore).

Scrapped about 1957.

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Esso Cardonal

Esquimalt, B.C. March 23, 1942. Library and Archives Canada/ PA-133313

Builder: A.C. Benson Shipyard Ltd. Vancouver, B.C.	Commissionned: March 7, 1942
Launched: October 25, 1941	Disposal: October 12, 1945

Career:

Sold October 10, 1945 by WAC to Straits Towing & Salvage Co., Vancouver, B.C. and renamed Salvor (#176230).

Eng. :  2 Hall-Scott petrol engines.

Renamed successively until 1954 as ST & S, Marine Freight NO.1, Sechelt Narrows and Miss Linda.

Owner 1951:  Davidson Marine Freight Ltd. Vancouver, B.C.

Eng. :  2 Gray Marine Detroit oil engines 330 H.P.

Owner 1954:  Sverre Gjerstad, Vancouver , B.C.

Owner 1955 +:  Gordon Henry Smith, Victoria, B.C., for general cargo and renamed Miss Linda.

March 10, 2008, suspended from registry (Transport Canada).

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Missing/Wanted

Salvor

ST & S

Marine Freight No. 1

Sechelt Narrows

Miss Linda

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

Musée Maritime du Québec collection

Builder: J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont.	Commissionned: May 27, 1942
Launched: April 30, 1942	Disposal: June 15, 1945

Career:

Sold October 24, 1945 by WAC to James L. Gillanders, Toronto.

Owner 1946:  Herbert E. Corbett, mining engineer, Oakville, Ont. and renamed Nancy Grace (#174988).

Eng. :  2 Gray Marine 1945 oil engines 450 H.P.

Sold May 19, 1949 to Dept. of National Defence for Naval Reserves and renamed PTC-779 ( Power Training Craft)  for HMCS Prevost then Racoon to October 1956.

Owner 1960: Morton P. Jubin, Town of Mount Royal, Qué.  and renamed Lady Enid (#174988). Registered Montreal, then Nassau, Bahamas.

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Nancy Grace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Racoon PTC 779

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lady Enit