Q052

 

Fairmile Motor Launch

 

 

Fairmile ML Q052

Source: Flickr photo collection of Don Gorham

 

Laid down: 04 Feb 1941

Launched: 15 Sep 1941

Delivered to the RCN: 31 Oct 1941 

Removed from service: 25 Jul 1945

Fate: Final disposition unknown

 

Q052 was delivered to the RCN on 31 Oct 1941. While she flew the White Ensign, she was not commissioned into the RCN but instead was listed as a tender to HMCS SAMBRO, the depot ship for escorts (tenders were not commissioned vessels).

 

Q052 had served with the Free French Navy of St. Pierre et Miquelon on the South Coast of Newfoundland from 15 Jan 1943 until the end of the war. After the war, Q052 was sold to General J. C. Escobar, Montreal and was later renamed Cyrius and La Marie-Jo.

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr A.D. MacLean, RCNVR - 31 Oct 1941 - ?? Dec 1941

 

Sub/Lt Albert Bruton Strange, RCNVR - 28 Feb 19 42 - unk

 

Lt Stephen Clive Robinson, RCNVR - 19 Apr 1942 - unk

 

 

       In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Beech, Walter H.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Burrell, George Elden, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1942

 

Schuthe, George MacDonald, SLt, RCNVR - 01 Apr 1942

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

Free French Naval Vessel ML Q052

 

RCN Photo # N.F. 2405

 

Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum

 

 

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