HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)

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HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)
Career (Canada) Naval Jack of Canada
Builder: Cantiere Navale Apuania, Marine-Carrara, Italy
Laid down: ?
Launched: 1965
Christened: Aspa Quarto
Acquired: mid 1970s
Commissioned: 1978
Decommissioned: 1997
In service: 1978-1997
Out of service: 1997
Renamed: Cormorant
Struck: 1997
Notes: Carried the Pisces IV submersible or the SDL-1 submersible.
General characteristics
Displacement: 2,350 tonnes (2,310 long tons)
Length: 74.68 m (245 ft)
Beam: 11.89 m (39 ft)
Draught: 5.18 m (17 ft)
Propulsion: Diesel electric,
3 diesels @ 950 bhp (710 kW) each,
1 shaft, 2,100 shp (1,600 kW),
Speed: 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 65
Sensors and
processing systems:
various search and wreck location sonars, sidescan

HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20) was a diving support vessel that served in the Canadian Forces. Th ship was equipped with either Pisces IV submersible or the SDL-1 submersible.

The vessel was built as the Italian-owned stern trawler Aspa Quarto. She was purchased in 1975 and commissioned into Maritime Command, becoming the second Canadian naval unit to bear this name.


HMCS Cormorant (781)
Career (Canada) Naval Jack of Canada
Builder: Birdland Boat Works. Midland, Ontario
Laid down: 1997
Launched: 1956
Commissioned: 1956
Decommissioned: 1963
In service: 1956-63
Out of service: 1963
Struck: 1963
Fate: To be used as an under water diving wreck
Notes: sold as mission ship
General characteristics
Complement: 65

HMCS Comorant (781) was a Bird-class patrol vessel built by Birdland Boat Works. Midland, Ontario in 1956 and served until 1963. It was sold to a religious mission, but the ship never sailed to the final destination.

She was decommissioned in 1997 and sold to United States owners for diving operations, although she has remained docked in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia alongside HMCS Fraser (DDH 233).

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