Fairmile ML Q060 - For Posterity's Sake

Q060

Fairmile Motor Launch

Fairmile ML Q060

Source: Flickr photo collection of Don Gorham

Laid down: 05 Apr 1941

Launched: 24 Jul 1941

Delivered to the RCN: 01 Nov 1941

Removed from service: 20 Jun 1945

Fate: Sold after the war, her final disposition is unknown.

Built by Hunter Boats, Orillia, Ontario, she was delivered to the RCN on 01 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 Feb 1944 and Jan 1945, Q060 was part of the 72nd ML Flotilla. Paid off on 20 Jun 1945, she was sold the same year to B. O. Bissette, St. John, Quebec. The crew called ML Q060 the Mariposa Belle after a fictional Canadian town setting created by writer Stephen Leacock for a series of short stories.

Photos and Documents

Commanding Officers

Lt H.F. Farncomb, RCNVR - 06 Sep 1941 - 17 Dec 1941

Sub/Lt F.K. Ellis, RCNVR - 18 Dec 1941 - 17 Apr 1942

Lt James Sinclair Davis, RCNVR - 18 Apr 1942 - 01 May 1942

Slt Archibald McAllister Byers, RCNVR - 01 May 1942 - unk

Slt Archibald McAllister Byers, RCNVR - 12 Feb 1943 - 10 Oct 1943

Lt Richard John Murray Allan, RCNVR - 11 Oct 1943 - 15 Feb 1944

Sub/Lt Robert Mansfield Greene, RCNVR - 16 Feb 1944 - 06 Mar 1944

Lt Richard John Murray Allan, RCNVR - 07 Mar 1944 - 29 Jan 1945

Lt John Gordon William Mackenzie, RCNVR - 30 Jan 1945 - 13 Mar 1945

Lt Richard John Murray Allan, RCNVR - 14 Mar 1945 - 17 Apr 1945