HMCS Cougar (Z15)

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Career (Canada) Canadian Blue Ensign
Name: HMCS Cougar
Builder: George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, Massachusetts
Launched: 1916
Commissioned: 11 September 1940
Decommissioned: 23 November 1945
General characteristics
Class and type: armed yacht
Displacement: 204 tons
Length: 140 ft (43 m)
Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Draught: 10 ft (3.0 m)
Speed: 10 knots
Complement: 40
Armament: 1-6 pdr
Notes: Formerly Breezin' Thru.

HMCS Cougar (Z15) was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN).

Carrying the pennant number Z15, she was launched in 1916 in Neponset, Massachusetts and was commissioned into the RCN on September 11, 1940. She was paid off on November 23, 1945.

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