HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)
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HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20) was a diving support vessel in the Royal Canadian Navy and second ship to bear this name.
It was bought used, as Italian stern trawler Aspa Quarto in 1975. It was sold in 1997 to the US and returned to Canada for storage in Nova Scotia along side HMCS Fraser.
[edit] Specifications
- Displacement: 2,350 tons
- Length: 245 feet
- Width: 39 feet
- Draught: 17 feet
- Speed: 15 knots
- Crew: 65
- Aviation: none
- Equipment: Pisces IV submersible or the SDL-1 submersible
- Armament: none
- Commissioned: 1978
- Paid Off: 1997