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

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

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

Return by French Free Naval Forces, 1945. Origin unknown

Career:

After her commissioning, she was transferred in January , 1943  along with MLs  52 and 62 to the Free French Naval Forces based at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, under operational control of the Flag Officer, Newfoundland, and renamed  Colombier (VED 113).

Sold October 18, 1945  ($3,000) by WAC to Cdn. Inter-American Associates, MTl.

Sold 1947 to J.G. Escobar, Montreal.

Possibly puchased  from M. Gauthier by Plaid Shipping Ltd. (Rapid Steamship Co.) Montreal as Cumbrae II by September 4,  1959.

Other pictures of Q063

Origin unknown

Cumbrae II

Origin unknown

Career:

Sold October 10, 1945 ($3,000) by WAC to Wendell Graham, lobster packer, Montague, P.E.I. (also owned Q091) and renamed Six-Four (#175446).

Eng:  2 GM diesel engines 330 H.P.

First registry March 17, 1947. Charlottetown, P.E. I.

Sold July 28, 1948 to Everett Kennedy, fisherman, Bay Head Colchester Co., N.S.

Sold February 9, 1950 to Maritime Produce Ltd. Bayhead, N.S.

Foundered off Sydney, N.S. December 7, 1952. Sank 30 miles southwest of Channel Head, Nfld.

Register closed January 7, 1953

Other pictures of Q064

Origin unknown

At J.H. Leblanc Shipbuilding, Weymouth, N.S. James Frost collection

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Six Four

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

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)

Other pictures of Q065

Origin unknown

James Frost collection

Nadine II

Docked at Penetanguishne, Ont. in the 50's. Origin unknown

Audrey A and Alex & Sally

Audrey A ex-Nadine II. Bill Breaker collection

Audrey A ex-Nadine II, Toronto Island, mid 70's. Drew Baird collection

Alex & Sally (never registered) sunk in the lagoon on Rose Island near Parry Sound, Ontario. Drew Baird collection

2005, burnt to the waterline, Rose Island near Parry Sound, Ontario. Drew Baird collection

2014, Alexander Miller collection

(E2532). Origin unknown

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).

Other pictures of Q066

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Earlmar

Taken off Vancouver. H.W.Patterson collection

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.

Other pictures of Q067

Missing/Wanted

Stranger II

Lewis Bay on Coal Island, in the 60's, photo by Jack Case, Western Mariner April 2007.

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

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).

Other pictures of Q068

Missing/Wanted

Salvor

ST & S

Marine Freight No. 1

Sechelt Narrows

Miss Linda

July 2, 1942 – Origin unknown (E-3303)

Career:

Sold October 5, 1945 by WAC to Willard Garfield Weston, Caufield, Vancouver, B.C.  and renamed Hardwood.

Owner 1946:  Albert Loftus McLennan, Vancouver, director of United Distilleries.

Owner 1950:  Duncan Harwood & Co. Ltd. Vancouver.

Resold to George H. and Henry F.Reifel, Vancouver and renamed Casa Mia (#176502).  Reifel family was the owner of another B.C. Distillery that merged with UDC.

Sam Bronfman acquired Harwood when he bought out UDC in 1953.

Resold about mid-60’s to Casa Mia Holdings Ltd. Vancouver (Roy E. Canedy, Pres. ) as a private yacht to 1972.

Eng. :  2 Gray Marine 1944 oil engines.

Resold in 1973 to Bounty Cruises Ltd. for cruise boat and registered in Suva, Fidji Is.

Sunk during a cyclone  in 1978 near Beachcomber, Fidji Islands.

Other pictures of Q069

Origin unknown

Ron Turner collection

Funnel of Q069. Ron Turner collection

View from Q069. Ron Turner collection

Sea trials-Dave Holsworth collection

Launch day-Dave Holsworth collection

Harwood

Christian Sheppard collection

Christian Sheppard collection

June 1947, Campbell River, British-Columbia, Ron Williams collection

August 1947, cruising off Point Atkinson, British-Columbia, Ron Williams collection

Vancouver Public Library collection

Casa Mia

Vancouver, B.C. Sue Lane collection