HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)
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HMCS Cormorant was a diving support vessel that served in the Canadian Forces. She was equipped with two SDL-1 submersibles. The ship was the first in the Canadian Forces to have women assigned to their crew. Initially constructed as the trawler Aspa Quarto in 1965, the ship was acquired by the Canadian Forces in 1975 and renamed Cormorant. The vessel remained in service until 1997 when Cormorant was sold to a US buyer. The ship was laid up at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 2000 and was removed on 18 November 2020 to be scrapped in Sheet Harbour.
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History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Aspa Quarto |
Builder | Cantiere Navale Apuania, Marine-Carrara, Italy |
Laid down | 8 December 1963 |
Launched | 11 April 1965 |
Completed | 15 June 1965 |
Out of service | 1975 |
Identification | IMO number: 6516881 |
Fate | Sold to Canadian Forces, 1975 |
Canada | |
Name | Cormorant |
Acquired | July 1975 |
Commissioned | 10 November 1978 |
Decommissioned | 2 July 1997 |
Stricken | 1997 |
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Fate | Scrapped 2020 |
Badge | Argent, a cormorant volant, wings elevated proper, in base, three barrulets undy vert.[1] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Diving support vessel |
Displacement | 2,350 long tons (2,388 t) |
Length | 74.7 m (245 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 11.9 m (39 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.0 m (16 ft 5 in) |
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Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Range | 13,000 nmi (24,076 km; 14,960 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 65 |
Sensors and processing systems | 2 × Decca 1229 navigational radar |
Notes | 2 × SD-1 submersibles in a heated hangar aft |
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