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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
Fairmile
Motor
Launch - Q077
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Fairmile ML Q077
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don Gorham
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Laid down: 18
Aug
1941
Launched: 12 May 1942
Delivered to the RCN:
02 Jun 1942
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Removed
from service: 17 Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1947. Final disposition unknown
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Built by Greavette Boats Ltd., Gravenhurst, Ont.,
she was delivered to the RCN on 02 Jun 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). Q077 was a "B" Type ML, Length:
112 ft, Beam: 17.9 ft, Draught: 4.9 ft, Complement: 3 officers, 14
men, Armament: 3-20mm. In Jan 1944 and Feb 1945, Q077 was listed a part
of the 73rd ML Flotilla. Sold in 1947
to Consolidated Shipping Corp., Sorel, Quebec, she was renamed
Coastal Queen.
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Commanding Officers |
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A/LCdr John William Braidwood,
RCNVR - 21 Apr 1942 - 07 Oct 1943
Sub/Lt Richard Paddon,
RCNVR - 08 Oct 1943 - 29 Oct 1943
Sub/Lt P. Thomas,
RCNVR - 30 Oct 1943 - 29 Dec 1943
Lt Peter Blay Crombie Samson,
RCNVR - 30 Dec 1943 - 05 Mar 1944 |
Lt Francis Amyot,
RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944 - 23 Apr 1944
Lt Peter Blay Crombie Samson,
RCNVR - 24 Apr 1944 - 29 Apr 1945
Lt Douglas Robert Lester,
RCNVR - 30 Apr 1945 - 19 Jul 1945 |
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Former Crew Members
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Bennett,
Ivan Thomas, RCNVR
Bunney,
Clifford Noble, Slt, RCNVR - 14 Feb 1945
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Gourlay,
John Lowry, SLt, O-28210, RCNVR - Jan 1944 / 08 May 1944
Kincaid,
Robert Mann, Slt, RCNVR - 25 May 1942 |
Lester,
Douglas Robert, Lt, RCNVR - 25 Apr 1945 |
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(IB46) SLt John Lowry Gourlay onboard Q077 - summer
1944 (IB47) Q077, Saint John, NB - summer 1944 (IB48) Shipmates
on Q077 - summer 1944
From the collection of Ivan
Bennett, RCNVR
Courtesy of Ivan Bennett
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