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Q071
Fairmile
Motor
Launch
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Fairmile ML Q071
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don
Gorham
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Laid down: 01
Feb
1941
Launched: 06
Oct 1941
Delivered
to the RCN 10 Apr 1942
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Removed
from service: 11 Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1946. Final disposition is
unknown.
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Built at Star Shipyards (Mercer's) Ltd., New
Westminster, B.C., she was delivered to the RCN on 15 Apr 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). Q071 was a "B" Type ML, Displacement: 79
tons, Length: 112 ft, Beam: 17.9 ft, Draught: 4.9 ft, Speed: 20kts,
Complement: 3 officers, 14 men, Armament: 3-20mm.
In Jan 1944, Q071 was listed as part of the
75th ML Flotilla. Paid off on 11 Jul 1945, she was sold in 1946 to Gulf Lines Ltd., Vancouver, she
was renamed Gulf Wing, later Troubadour III, Nimpkish
Princess, Northland Princess, Kona Winds, and Knight Time II and
Troubadour III.
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers
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Ch/Skpr Leonard
S. W. Pursey,
RCNR - 10 Apr 1942 - 06 Feb 1943
Lt John Eaton
E. Richardson,
RCNVR - 07 Feb 1943 - 23 Jul 1943
Skpr/Lt George Francis Cassidy,
RCNR - 24 Jul 1943 - 15 Aug 1943
Lt John Eaton
E. Richardson,
RCNVR - 16 Aug 1943 - 03 Mar 1944 |
Lt Donald John
Morrison, Lt, RCNVR - 04 Mar 1944 - 03 Oct 1944
Lt G.E. Devlin,
RCNVR - 04 Oct 1944 - 05 Nov 1944
Lt Edmund Newton Pottinger,
RCNVR - 06 Nov 1944 - 11 Jul 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
Former Crew Members
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Adamson,
William Hugh, Lt, RCNVR - 14 Jun 1943
Pottinger,
Edmund Newton, SLt, RCNVR - 30 Jan 1944
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Shaw,
Jack Winfield, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Jun 1943
Snaith,
Wingate Errol William, Lt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1942 |
Stewart,
Charles, A/Lt, RCNVR - 02 Apr 1945
Williams,
Thomas, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 10 Apr 1942 |
Photos and Documents
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Special Course Log Book - For Fog
Lt H.W. Patterson
Onboard Fairmile ML Q071
Courtesy of Steve Patterson |
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ML Q071
RCN Photo # E-4376
Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum |
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MS Northland Princes (former ML Q071)
Photographer: Walter E. Frost
Source: City of Vancouver Archives |
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MS Nimpkish Princes (former ML Q071)
Photographer: Walter E. Frost
Source: City of Vancouver Archives |
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