Q127

 

Fairmile Motor Launch

 

 

ML Q127

Source: RCN Fairmiles

Credit: Kathy Cullen Collection

 

Laid down: 08 Nov 1943

Launched: 

Delivered to the RCN: 27 Sep 1944

Removed from service: 02 Oct 1945

Fate: Sank at Princess Louisa Inlet, BC, in 1952

 

Built by Star Shipyards (Mercer's) Ltd., New Westminster, B.C., she was delivered to the RCN on 27 Sep 1944. 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).

 

Sold in 1945 to Hamiltair Ltd., Vancouver, she was renamed Chief Malibu. The Chief Malibu sank at Princess Louisa Inlet, British Columbia in 1952.

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Lt Roy Campbel Denny, RCNVR - 01 Jun 1944 - 09 Aug 1944

 

Lt J.M. Lewis, RCNVR - 25 Sep 1944 - 05 Nov 1944

 

Lt G.E. Devlin, RCNVR - 06 Nov 1944 - 22 Nov 1944

 

Lt C.K.D. Smith, RCNVR - 23 Nov 1944 - 11 Sep 1945

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Denny, Roy C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Holloway, Robert Christopher, SLt, RCNVR - 09 Jun 1945

 

 

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