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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
Fairmile
Motor
Launch - Q058
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Fairmile ML Q058
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don
Gorham
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Laid down: 03
Mar 1941
Launched: 27
Sep 1941
Commissioned: 24
Nov 1941
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Removed
from service : 10
Jul 1945
Fate:
Burned in 1949
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Built by Minett-Shields Ltd., Bracebridge,
Ontario, she was delivered to the RCN on 24 Nov 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). In Jan 1944, Q058 was listed as part of the
72nd ML Flotilla. After
the war she was sold to private interests in Toronto and renamed Katherine G.
She burned in 1949 and was destroyed.
Photos and Documents
Ship's Company Photos
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Commanding Officers |
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J.H.G. Bovey, RCNVR - 20 Oct 1941 - ?? Dec
1941
Lt Henry Knox Hill,
RCNVR - 01 Apr 1942 - 19 Jun 1942
Lt Stanley Edwin Charles Garlick,
RCNVR - 20 Jun 1942 - 14 Feb 1943  |
Lt Gerald Estabrooks Rising,
RCNVR - 15 Feb 1943 - 25 Jan 1944
Lt Romeo Synette,
RCNVR - 26 Jan 1944 - 26 May 1944
Lt John Godwin Chance,
RCNVR - 27 May 1944 - 10 Jul 1945 |
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Former Crew Members
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Brain,
Gorden Clark, Slt, RCNVR - 06 May 1943
Dorion,
Rudy
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Harding,
Frankie
Huckish,
Norman??, Cox'n
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Leitch,
John, Slt, RCNVR - 01 Apr 1942
Petley-Jones,
Evan, Slt, RCNVR - 12 Jul 1942
Spencer,
Robert George, Slt, RCNVR - 03 Apr 1944
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Photos and Documents
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Christening and Launching of ML Q058
The Evening Citizen, Ottawa, 01 Oct 1942
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Norman?? Huckish, Cox'n, ML Q058
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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Lt Stanley Garlick, RCNVR, CO of Q058 from 20
Jun 42 to 14 Feb 43
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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Mascot for Q058
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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Depth charge exploding astern of a ML (possibly
Q058)
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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Rudy?? Dorion and Frankie Harding
(Do not know which is which)
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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