Ship Details

Reindeer (H.M.C.S.) (II)

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Registry #1 Q.116 (RCN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Q-116 (H.M.C. ML) Name 6
Name 2 1945 M.L. 116 (H.M.C. ML) Name 7
Name 3 1952 Reindeer (H.M.C.S.) Name 8
Name 4 (nk) PTC-716 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Orillia Area ON Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 112' x 17.9' x 4.9'
Builder Hunter Boats Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Motor Launch, Fairmile B - Type (1943-44 Programme)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign GGVT; CYQY
Pendant  # Q.116; ML.116 Masters
 
Owner(s)
After Second World War service she was renamed as H.M.C.S. Reindeer for service in the Great Lakes.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel could reach a maximum speed of 22 knots. This vessel had a complement of 3 officers and 14 other ranks. (Note: Exploded when building at Hunters. Engine Mechanic was awarded a George Medal, another Engine Mechanic was killed). Fraser McKee states Commissioned into RCN: 12 July 1944. Retained by RCN to end of 1945. Transferred to Naval Reserves, 1949. To HMCS York as HMCS Reindeer (by 1952) Reindeer, ex–PTC–716. To June, 1955. Discarded as worn out, burned ashore at Hamilton. Macpherson says burned at Desjardins Canal. (But some records show this vessel became: Supertrader in 1956. (Freeman says this was Q–117 – more likely, but other records say this was ex–Q–116)``
 
References
Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Navy_MLs.php;
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