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Q090
Fairmile
Motor
Launch
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Fairmile ML Q090
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don Gorham
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Laid down: 16
Apr
1942
Launched: 21
Oct 1942
Delivered to the RCN: 19
Nov 1942
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Removed
from service: 13 Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1945. Final disposition unknown.
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Built by Greavette Boats Ltd.,
Gravenhurst, Ont.,
she was delivered to the RCN on 19 Nov 1942. 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).
In May 1944 and Jan 1945, Q090 was listed as part of the
78th ML Flotilla. Sold in 1945
to Brian Newkirk in Toronto and renamed Louvicourt and Rosal.
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers
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LCdr A.C. Campbell,
RCNVR - 11 Nov 1942 - 10 May 1944
Lt Charles Arthur Lewis Maase,
RCNVR - 11 May 1944 - 24 Jan 1945 |
Lt Donald Alexander Dobson,
RCNVR - 25 Jan 1945 - 06 Mar 1945
Lt Charles Arthur Lewis Maase,
RCNVR - 07 Mar 1945 - 13 Jul 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
Former Crew Members
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Barbeau,
James Brown, SLt, RCNVR - 13 May 1944
Cooper, Charles Forester Whirrer, SLt, RCNVR -
14 Jul 1943
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Jefferies,
Andrew Douglas, SLt, RCNVR - 01 Feb 1945
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Photos and Documents
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MV Louvicourt (former ML Q090) runs aground
on False Duck Shoal The Belleville Intelligencer
31 Aug 1948 Source: Belleville Public Library
microfilm collection
Researched and complied by: ©
John Lyons 2016 |
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