Origin unknown

Career:

Sold October 1, 1945 for 3,000$ by WAC to Francis Farewell c/o Canada Coach Lines, Hamilton, Ontario.

Resold 1946 to Cruises and Traffic Sales Ltd. Hamilton, Ontario.

Fate unknown.

Other pictures of Q100

D. Brown collection

ML’s 100 and 095. Origin unknown

Converted Fairmile Unknown

Q101, on the right. Origin unknown

Career:

Sold 1945 by WAC to Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping Limited, Fort William, Ontario.

First registry, September 15, 1947 and renamed Edmar (# 173183).

March 9, 1948, sold to Great Lakes Lumber and Shipping Limited, Fort William, Ontario.

Eng. :  2  GM Gray Marine oil engines, 450 H.P.

January 1, 1953, sold to Edmar Limited, Fort William, Ontario.

Registry closed April28, 1954 on sale to Foreigners ( Panamian subjects).

Re-registered, November 14, 1955 at Yarmouth, Nova-Scotia and renamed Nellie D. (# 173183), owner:  George Donavan Raymond, Garage operator, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Registry closed and Certificate cancelled, December 11, 1957.  Wrecked and considered a total loss. Ran aground at Metegan, N. S. on a ledge adjacent to Big Tusket Island, on September 12, 1957 (possibly salvaged ?).

Other pictures of Q101

Missing / Wanted

Edmar

Converted Fairmile “Edmar” pays visit to Windsor, Ontario at the Hiram Walker grain dock. Windsor Daily Star, July 22, 1952

Nellie D.

Origin unknown

Career:

Sold September 21, 1945 for 3,000$ by WACto Francis Farewell, Canada Coach Lines, Hamilton, Ontario and renamed Quetzal (# 173491).

Owner, 1949-50: Andrew P. Holt, Montreal, Quebec.

Eng. :  2 Mac oil engines.

Owner, from 1950: Hartland de M. Molson (Molson Breweries), Montreal, Quebec and renamed Curlew.

Register closed May 1, 1953, sold U.S.A., June 25, 1953. U.S. Reg. # 285653.

Owner 1954: Frank Sawyer, Boston, Massachusets.

Owner  1955 to 72+: Ferncliff Company, Boston, Massachusets.

19??: Renamed Salissa M.

19??: Renamed Moondance as a day charter yacht in and around the waters of New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. Owner: G.Nile Ltd. LLC.

Eng. :  2  1952 Palmer diesels Model 672, six cylinders with Mac Blocks, 350 H.P.

Sold August 2000 and renamed Enterprise II, owner: G Nile Ltd LLC, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Registry expired October 31, 2001.

Other pictures of Q102

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Gaspe, Quebec. Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Quetzal

1948 ad, origin unknown

Curlew

André Guévremont collection

Molson collection

Salissa M.

Moondance

Enterprise II

Origin unknown

Career:

On December 19, 1942, she was assigned to the 78th Motor Launch Flotilla under the orders of HMCS Provider in the Sydney Escort Force.

During the 1943 navigation season, was employed in the Gulf, patrolling and escorting. Based at Gaspe and Sept-Iles, Quebec.

Was sent to Bermuda during winter 1944 along with the 70th flotilla for exercises of ships sent there for training.

Was based with the 78 th Flotilla at Gaspé, Red Bay on Belle Isle Strait and Corner Brook , Newfoundland,  during the summer 1944.

July 4, 1945, paid off at Quebec. Was towed to Sorel on the 7th, with Q098 and 100.

Sold  November 19, 1945 by WAC to Cecil W.Weegar (wife of Peter LePage, see Q065 and 88), Penetanguishene, Ontario.

Registered in 1946 at Midland, Ontario and renamed One-O-Three (# 173650).

Owner 1951-60: Edgar Taylor, Owen Sound, Ontario.

Eng. : 2 Hall-Scott 12 cylinders petrol engines.

Owner 1962: Paul E. Noel, Montreal,  Quebec and renamed Lady Simone. Registred in Owen Soun then in 1969 in Montreal and St-Antoine de Tilly, Quebec.

Owner 1969: Robert Houde, St-Antoine de Tilly, for parts.  Scrapped and burned on the shore of St-Antoine (Autumn 1969)

Author’s comments:

During the summer 1969, I was working aboard the sightseeing boat Duc d’Orleans (ex-Q105) that belonged to my family. In July, after hitting a tire (my guess), one of the props shaft was bent and needed to be replaced. My father bought from Roger Houde of St-Antoine de Tilly a used shaft that has been removed from the Lady Simone that was moored at the wharf of St-Antoine. I went aboard for a short perilous visit. During the night, we had the tough job of pulling out the old shaft from the boat. I remember that we had to dig a deep ditch  in the  mud with showels in order to pull out the shaft. I still have warm memories of that night.

Other pictures of Q103

Royal Canadian Navy collection (JT 505)

June 3, 1945. Escorts of U-190, en route Bay Bulls to St-John’s, Newfoundland. Origin unknown (NA 10/C 985)

Q103’s log for November 1942. CN 421,Vol.2

One-O-Three

November 1962, Owen Sound, Ontario. Capt. John McKay/Gerry Ouderkirk collection

November 1959, Owen Sound Harbour, Ontario. Gerry Ouderkirk collection

Lady Simone

Montreal, Quebec about 1963. René Beauchamp collection

Montreal Harbour 1966

1969, St-Antoine de Tilly, Quebec. Yves Lachance collection

Origin unknown

Career:

July 1945, not classed as surplus for WAC.

September 14 1945, loaned to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts as for Q105 and Q107.

April 1947, in hands of J.Severin Langlois (river pilot), Savoy Shipping Ltd., Quebec,   (owned also Q059, Q096 and Q105).

August 1951, reacquired by DND for Naval Reserves, HMCS Cataraqui, Kingston, Ontario and renamed PTC704 then Cougar.

January 1956, transferred to HMCS Star, Hamilton, Ontario as “tender” and paid off Novemebr 4, 1956.

About 1957, moved by land to the Dundas Branch of the Navy League for their Sea Cadets as “club house” (at the Desjardins Canal, north side of Hamilton Harbour), (RCSCC Dundas Sea Cadets).

Scrapped there in the late 70s.

Other pictures of Q104

Origin unknown

Cougar PTC 704

Hamilton,Ontario 1952. PTC704 on the left. Hamilton Public Library collection

PTC 704. Origin unknown

PTC 704. Origin unknown

Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection

Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection

Chris Varley, HMCS Cataraqui Association collection

 Cougar PTC 704  (as “club house” for Dundas Sea Cadets)

October 1963, PTC704 as club house. Paul E. Brown collection

October 20-1963. Sea cadet Paul E. Brown, HMCS Cougar, Paul E. Brown collection

December 1943. Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4120)

Career:

On arrival in Halifax in September 1943, she was allocated to the Halifax Force and joined the 70th Motor Launch Flotilla (Q104 to 109).

She left Halifax on October 24, 1943, for Bermuda under the escort of Corvette HMCS LETHBRIDGE and under orders of the depot ship HMCS PROVIDER.

During their stay in these waters, Q105 and other vessels of her class carried out anti-submarine patrols and exercises with RCN ships to carry out working-up exercises.

Q105 did not return to Halifax until september 1, 1945 and was sailed to Quebec to be destored there.

September 7, 1945, arrived in Quebec with MLs 104 ,106 and 107.

September 11, 1945,  paid-off with 104 and 107, 106 being retained in commission.

September 14 1945, loaned to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts as for Q104and Q107 and towed to Rimouski by the naval tug GLENCOVE.

January 12,1948, sold for 2,500$ by Rimouski Shool of Arts & Crafts to J.Séverin Langlois (river pilot) c/0 Savoy Shipping, Quebec.

Spring 1948, converted in sightseeing boat at Saint-Laurent Shipyard, Island of Orleans , Quebec and renamed Duc d’Orleans .

December 27, 1948, first registry, Quebec (# 179271)

Owners 1948-1950: J.Séverin Langlois (river pilot) and Nelson Arthur Fournier (bus operator) c/o Quebec Waterways Sightseeing Tours Company.

Eng. : 2 GM 6-71 Detroit diesel, 320 H.P.

Owners 1950-1952: J.Séverin Langlois and Alphonse Proteau (insurance broker).

Owner November 1952-1972: Jean-Claude Morin (businessman), Sillery Quebec. c/o Quebec Waterways Sightseeing Tours Company, ( La Compagnie d’Excursion Maritime de Québec).

Owner 1972-1978: Guy Hamel family, Cap-Rouge, Quebec.

About 1975, fibreglassed down to ice skirt.

October 6, 1978, sale to Jacques Beauchamp and Raymond Beauchamp , businessmen, Corunna, Ontario.Registry transferred to the port of Sarnia, November 27,1978.

August 1, 1980, sale to Kenneth Bruce Bracewell, businessman, Corunna,  Ontario. In service for local tours and receptions on St-Clair River 1980-2006.

Retired from service in June 2006. The owner offered to donate the Duc d’Orleans to a volunteer group known as The Friends of Fairmile Q105. The Friends plan to restore the historic vessel to its original wartime appearance.

In august 2010, the boat is on the shoreline at Pt.Edward (Sarnia), Ontario.

Registry closed 2021-04-01

* For more details on Q105, you can view the category “about the author”.

Other pictures of Q105

Summer 1943, during construction at Mac-Craft shipyard, Sarnia, Ontario. Mark Harrison collection

Summer 1943, Q105 and Q104 during construction at Mac-Craft shipyard, Sarnia, Ontario. Mark Harrison collection

September 5, 1943. Launching of Q105 at Mac-Craft shipyard, Sarnia, Ontario. Mark Harrison collection

Summer 1943, trials. Mark Harrison collection

May 8, 1945, V-E day in St-Georges Channel, Bermuda. Jay Fisher collection

70 th flotilla ML’s at Bermuda on May, 8, 1945, V-E day. Royal Canadian Navy collection (CN 6271)

70 th flotilla ML’s at Bermuda on May, 8, 1945, V-E day. Jay Fisher collection

70th Flotilla-Bermuda 1944. Robert Ulmer collection

Autumn 1945, Rimouski, Quebec. From left, Q105, Q107 and Q104, the three Fairmiles loaned to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts. Jean Ouellet collection

Duc d’Orléans

On the St-Lawrence River in front of Quebec. Author collection

Docking at St-Anne de Beaupre, Quebec. Author collection

Spring 1950. Wintering at St-Laurent shipyard on the Island of Orleans with Le St. Barnabé (ex-Q098) and Roseline (ex-Q096). Jean Ouellet collection

René Beauchamp collection

Restoration in progress

December 9, 2007. Lift-up at Pt. Edward, Ontario.

June 9, 2009. My visit to Pt. Edward, Ontario

The author on the deck of  Q105

August 6,2010. Fraser McKee collection

August 6,2010. Fraser McKee collection

February 2011. Matt Miner collection

November 27, 1945, Halifax, Nova-Scotia. Library and Archives Canada / PA-115626

Career:

Q106 was paid off in September 1945 and was sailed to Quebec to be destored there.

On arrival she was retained as well as a few others, sailed to Halifax and was paid off into reserve on February 26, 1946.

May 1947: Recommissioned at Halifax to the Montreal Naval Division, HMCS DONNACONA, to serve as a training vessel.

July 28, 1948: Attached to the reserve division, HMCS STAR at Hamilton, Ontario.

July 1949:  Suffered from a severe fire  and obliged her to undergo costly repairs.

After September 1949 was known as PTC 706. In 1954 , renamed Beaver.

May 1956: Comissioned as tender to HMCS YORK at Toronto. Ontario.

November 13, 1957: Was declared surplus.

Sold in 1957 for $6,501 by WAC to Hamilton Harbour Commissionners, Hamilton, Ont.(Crown Assets Report 1957-58).

1961: In ruins at Hamilton and demolished.

Other pictures of Q106

August 1943, acceptance trials. Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Origin unknown

Q106 and Q108. Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4117)

Beaver PTC 706

Origin unknown

Fraser McKee collection

Fraser McKee collection

Fraser McKee collection

Origin unknown

Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4116)

Career:

September 14, 1945, loaned to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts as for Q104 and Q105 and towed to Rimouski by the naval tug GLENCOVE.

Sold 1949 to Chester E. Ferris, Sarnia, Ontario and renamed Miss Chevrolet. Registered Sarnia then  St-John, New-Brunswick.

April 1951: Sold and renamed Lady Latour, owner unknown.

December 1951: Ashore at Bic, Quebec (near Rimouski) and burned.

Other pictures of Q107

Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4113)

May 8, 1945, V-E day in St-Georges Channel, Bermuda. Jay Fisher collection

Autumn 1945, Rimouski, Quebec. From left, Q105, Q107 and Q104, the three Fairmiles lent to Rimouski School of Arts & Crafts. Jean Ouellet collection

September 1948, Bic, Quebec. View of Q107 from Bic wharf. Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Quebec, E6,S7,SS1,D45948

Bic, Quebec, around 1948

Miss Chevrolet

Circa 1950, Gerry Ouderkirk collection

Lady Latour

1950, St-John River, N.B. Peter Malberg,Fredericton Region Museum collection

1951,wreck of the Lady Latour burned at Indiantown, N.B. Fredericton Region Museum collection

Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4118)

Career:

September 29, 1945, sold 3,000$  by WAC to MIL (Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel, Quebec).

October 22, 1947: first registry in Sorel by MIL and renamed Machigonne II (#178706).

Eng. :  2 Hall-Scott gasoline engines 126o H.P.

August 12, 1949: Registry closed on sale to foreigners (Costa Rica).

Other pictures of Q108

Origin unknown

Q108 and Q106 on patrol. Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4117)

Origin unknown

Watson's Studio.

70th flotilla in Bermuda, circa 1944. Jay Fisher collection

Allan Bertelsen collection

Machigonne II

Origin unknown

Career:

July 10, 1945, paid off and towed July 12 by naval tug GLENCOVE to Sorel, Quebec,  up the river then handed over to War Assets Corporation for disposal.

October 30, 1948: first registry in Hamilton.Ontario and renamed Quetzal II (#173498). Owner: Francis Farwell c/o Canada Coach Lines Ltd. Hamilton. Ontario.

Eng. :  2 GM oil engines 450 H.P.

July 6, 1949: renamed Arara

Owner 1955-1965: Canada Illinois Tools Ltd.,  Don Mills, Ontario ( Harold Byron Smith, pres. Chicago, Illinois.

Registry closed January 1965. Sold to Lake Loonie N.J. Delran, New-Jersy and renamed Aruba ( USCG #D297725).

Owner 1969-1975: Elizabeth S. Skinner, St-Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Owner 1975: Layne Dredging Co. Hallandale, Florida.

Owner 197?: L.B. Co. Inc., Miami, Florida.

February 24, 1989: new registration, owner: none listed, expiration date: February 28, 1994.

Other pictures of Q109

July 1942. In the Trent Canal System (Ontario) and in the Peterborough Lift Lock. John G. Mackenzie collection (Lieutenant Q109, June 1942 to January 1945)

Summer 1943. In the Trent Canal System (Ontario). John G. Mackenzie collection

Peterborough Lift Lock museum collection

Trent Severn Canal. Lock 27 at Youngs Point. Peterborough Lift Lock museum collection.

Origin unknown

70th flotilla in Bermuda, circa 1944. Jay Fisher collection

70th flotilla in Bermuda, circa 1944. Jay Fisher collection

Q109 and Q107 on patrol. Royal Canadian Navy collection (L-4113)

Quetzal II

Arara

Hunter, August 9, 1951. The Arara of Hamilton docked at Windsor Government Dock. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes.

Aruba