[3] 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.

[3] 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.

[3] "Armament consisted of three 20mm Oerlikon guns, mounted forward, aft and amidships; two .303 machine-guns; and 20 depth charges of 300 lb each, including eight fitted for the "Y-gun" thrower.

[7] Although listed as being built by Greavette Boats Ltd. of Gravenhurst, Ontario, Q056, along with Q055, was 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.