[2] Built of double mahogany (diagonally) with an eight-inch oak keel and based on a line of destroyer hulls, the Fairmiles arrived in prefabricated kits to be assembled for the RCN by thirteen different boatyards.

[2] In two days, a Fairmile could have its weapons and equipment reconfigured to serve as an escort, minesweeper, minelayer, navigation leader, coastal raider, patrol boat, ambulance or rescue launch.

[6] Although listed as being built by Greavette Boats Ltd. of Gravenhurst, Ontario, Q055 along with Q056 which were subcontracted and commissioned at Sachau Marine Construction Limited at Humber Bay, Mimico.

Regularly deployed in flotillas of six The Little Ships relieved larger escort craft urgently needed elsewhere by carrying out anti-submarine patrols, port defence and rescue duties.

[11][12] In January 1944 and April 1945, ML Q055 was listed as part of the RCN North-West Atlantic Command Gaspé Force (Administered by N.O.