Q080
Origin unknown
Builder:J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont. |
Commissionned:June 17, 1942 |
Launched:May 20, 1942 |
Disposal:June 13, 1945 |
Career:
Sold $3,000, october 9, 1945 by WAC to United Boat Corp, J.Leon Israel, New York.
1946, converted to yacht at Toronto and renamed Quarterdeck. Owner: H.B. Prior, Chartsworth Gardens, Larchmont, New York.
Eng: 2 Hall-Scott gasoline engines.
1949-50, owner: Abaco Trading Co. Ltd. Nasseau, Bahamas, and renamed Almeta Queen (U.S. # D249628), have carried freight and possibly mail among the Bahamas as well as crawfish to Florida and freight to and from Cuba.
Eng: 2 Hall-Scott Motor Co. petrol engines.
Owner 1954 : D.H. Bramar, Port O’ Connor, Texas and renamed Cosa Grande.
Eng: 2 GM 1954 oil engines.
1970, Panamanian registry.
1983, deleted from documentation.
August 2007, found abandoned in Panama Delta, Argentina.
Other pictures of Q080
Q080 and Q065 on patrol. Origin unknown
Roger Litwiller-HMCS Trentonian collection
Quarterdeck
Almeta Queen
Almeta Queen model (ex-Q080), built by Vertrum Lowe, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas
Cosa Grande
Taken on the Abra Vieja River at the confluence with Lujan River, Argentina, about 1977-79. Pablo Brinckmann collection
Lihueel Bueno collection
Parana Delta River, Argentina, August 2007. Pablo Brinckmann collection
Q081
Midland Boat Works, Midland, Ontario, Summer 1942. Origin unknown
Builder:Midland Boat Works Midland, Ont. |
Commissionned:May 27, 1942 |
Launched:May 1, 1942 |
Disposal:June 15, 1945 |
Career:
Sold 1946 to Louis Levin, Montreal, Quebec.
Purchased early 1946 by C.C.Pratt Co., Montreal, for conversion by Montreal Dry Docks Limited and sold (7900$) 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
Q082
Off Rimouski, Quebec, October 1942. Origin unknown
Builder:Midland Boat Works Midland, Ont. |
Commissionned:May 27, 1942 |
Launched:May 1, 1942 |
Disposal:September 7, 1944 (explosion) |
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
Q083
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Library and Archives Canada/ PA-133294
Builder:J.H. Leblanc Shipbuilding Co. Weymouth, N.S. |
Commissionned:May 25, 1942 |
Launched:March 24, 1942 |
Disposal:June 13, 1945 |
Career:
Sold octotber 9, 1945 for $3,000 by WAC to Lorne Johnston (lobster packer) Montague, Prince Edward Island and renamed Lazy Mariner (#175448).
Eng: 2 Hall-Scott Motor Co. gasoline engines.
Date of registy, April 13, 1947.
Burnt at Port Malcom, Nova Scotia and registry closed November 20, 1950.
Other pictures of Q083
James D. Frost collection
Origin unknown
Origin unknown
Lazy Mariner
Model built by Edwin Morton, his father was captain aboard the Lazy Mariner
Q084
May 1943, Library and Archives Canada/ PA-134191
Builder:J.H. Leblanc Shipbuilding Co. Weymouth N.S. |
Commissionned:June 18, 1942 |
Launched:May 16, 1942 |
Disposal:June 15, 1945 |
Career:
Sold November 1, 1945 by WAC to R.E. Gamble Toronto, Ontario.
Fate unknown.
Other pictures of Q084
Royal Canadian Navy collection (GM0081)
May 1943, origin unknown
May 1943. Library and Archives Canada/ PA-134191
Gary Penelton collection
Montreal Harbour circa 1945, Q090, Q086, Q093 and Q084 decommissioned and ready for disposal by WAC. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Montreal Harbour circa 1945, Q084 decommissioned and ready for disposal by WAC. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Montreal Harbour circa 1945, Q084 decommissioned and ready for disposal by WAC. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Montreal Harbour circa 1945, Q084 decommissioned and ready for disposal by WAC. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Converted Fairmile Unknown
Q085
Origin unknown
Builder:Hunter Boats Orillia, Ont. |
Commissionned:June 13, 1942 |
Launched:May 16, 1942 |
Disposal:June 13, 1945 |
Career:
Sold $3,000, October 9, 1945 by WAC to United Boat Corp, J.Leon Israel, New York.
Fate unknown.
Other pictures of Q085
May 1943, exercises off St-Margaret Bay, Nova Scotia. Library and Archives Canada/ PA-172317
Converted Fairmile Unknown
Q086
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St-John, New-Brunswick. Origin unknown
Builder:J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont. |
Commissionned:October 26, 1942 |
Launched:October 3, 1942 |
Disposal:June 30, 1945 |
Career:
Sold November 7, 1945 by WAC to K.V. Gamble, Toronto, Ontario.
Register closed November 25, 1954.
Registered June 19, 1959, Aubrey Patrick Gonsalves, Montreal, Quebec as Montery (# 310616).
Eng: 2 Gray Marine Motor Co. diesel engines, 450 H.P.
Bill of sale dated September 17, 1959, sold by Aubrey Patrick Gonsalves, Montreal to Inter Dominion Shipping Co. Ltd., Montreal (for cargo).
Registry noted December 3, 1981, unable to verify existence of vessel.
Other pictures of Q086
Montreal Harbour circa 1945, Q090, Q086, Q093 and Q084 decommissioned and ready for disposal by WAC. Factory of Dominion Sugar Co. (Redpath) in the background. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Rear view of the above picture. Jocelyn Paquet collection.
Monterey
Q087
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).
Other pictures of Q087
Missing /Wanted
Chef Tek8(o)erimat
1947- Tadoussac Wharf. Jocelyn Paquet collection
Tzigane
Q088
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).
Other pictures of Q088
Origin unknown
Eighty-Eight
Origin unknown
Penetang Eighty-Eight
Origin unknown
Origin unknown
On railway, Penetanguishne, Ont., early 60’s. Ian Campbell collection
Cruising the 30,000 Islands in Georgian Bay daily out of Penetang, Ontario. Gerry Ouderkirk collection
Docking at Cognashene, Ontario. Bowden collection
Timetable, June 25 to September 6, 1954. Rick Allison collection
Roger Miller collection
Roger Miller collection
July 1963, Toronto Public Library collection
Midland Penetang Eighty-Eight
1967, Gerry Ouderkirk and John Mackay collection
Olympia III
Circa April 1975. Sunken in the Gananoque River. J.W. King photography collection
Q089
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.
Other pictures of Q089
October 1942, Toronto. Ken MacPherson collection
David Carriere collection
Coastal Queen
Isle Royale Boaters Association collection
In the 50’s, sale flyer Thunder Bay Boat Company, Port Arthur, Ontario.
Origin unknown.
Grande Commander
Corniche
1985, Baccarat Yacht Charters Ltd., Toronto.
Port Maitland, Ontario, 1990-2002. Gerry Ouderkirk collection
