Q064

Fairmile Motor Launch

Built by LeBlanc Shipbuilding Co., J.H., Weymouth, N.S., she was delivered to the RCN on 18 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). In Mar 1943, Q064 rescued the flight crew of a Catalina flying boat that had crashed 1 mile offshore and was on fire. In Mar 1944 and  Jan 1945, ML Q064 was part of the 72 ML Flotilla. On 06 Mar 1944, her CO, Lt Jarvis was listed as the SO of the 72 ML Flotilla. In 1947, she was sold and renamed Six-Four.  She foundered in 1952.

From The Fairmiles - Canada's Little Ships - "ML064 participated in the Battle of the Gulf of St Lawrence. George Crowell told me that at one time ML064 and ML080 berthed alongside each other at Rimouski, Quebec, when a good breeze of wind came up causing them to rub against each other. The bit of over hang on the upper deck of ML080 caught in the same over hang on ML064 ripping her upper deck off from the bow back to the wheelhouse. This put ML064 out of service and she limped down to the shipyard at Pictou, Nova Scotia, where they put a tight canvas patch on her. She then proceeded back to Weymouth, Nova Scotia for repairs."

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