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HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)
Career (Canada) Naval Jack of Canada
Builder: Cantiere Navale Apuania, Marine-Carrara, Italy
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. She 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.

She was an integral part of the November, 1994 expedition to recover the ship's bell from the wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Luke Superior.

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).

The Cormorant was purchased at auction by Neil Hjelle in September 2009 to be refit and used for research in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)

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Ship's Bell[]

The ship's bell of HMCS Cormorant is currently on loan to a Navy League Cadet Corps in British Columbia. The Christening Bells Project at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum includes information from the ship's bell of HMCS Cormorant, which was used for baptism of babies onboard ship.[1]

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