Ship Details
Cougar (III) (H.M.C.S.) Photo Credit: For Posterity Sake Website

 

Registry #1	Q.104 (RCN)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1943	Q-104 (H.M.C. M.L.)	Name 6
Name 2	(nk)	M.L. 104 (H.M.C. M.L.)	Name 7
Name 3	(nk)	M.L. 704 (H.M.C.)	Name 8
Name 4	(nk)	PTC 704	Name 9
Name 5	(nk)	Cougar (III) (H.M.C.S.)	Name 10

 

Year Built	1943	Place	Sarnia	Area	ON	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	112' x 17.9' x 4.9'
Builder	Mac-Craft Co. Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage		Type 1	Motor Launch, Fairmile B - Type (1943 Programme)
Registered Tonnage		Type 2	Patrol Craft, Seaward Defence vessel
Engine		Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower		Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #	Q.104/ML.104/ PTC.704	Masters

 

Owner(s)
In 1943-1945 she served in the royal Canadian Navy. After the Second World War service she was renamed as H.M.C.S. Cougar for service in the Great Lakes. In 1946 she was owned by Marine Industries Ltd., Quebec QC. In 1950-1951 she was owned by J.Severen Langlois. In 1951 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	0000-00-00

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

This vessel could reach a maximum speed of 20 knots. This vessel had a complement of 3 officers and 14 other ranks. Fraser McKee States that "Commissioned into RCN: 4 August 1943. 1943 building programme July 1945: Q–104 not classed as surplus for W.A.C Sold to M.I.L., Sorel 1946. Reacquired by W.A.C. 15 September 1945: loaned to School of Arts & Crafts, Rimouski, QC Also in hands of J.Severen Langlois (as for Q–096 and Q–105) Reacquired by DND for Naval Reserves, HMCS Cataraqui, Kingston, ON by August 1951. Cougar, ex–PTC-704. Then to HMCS Star, Hamilton as "tender" by January 1956 Paid off 4 November 1956 Moved by land to Dundas ON (at the Desjardins Canal, north side of Hamilton Harbour)to serve as "club house": RCSCC Dundas Sea Cadets, Dundas ON To about 1959. this vessel was broken up."

 

References
Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Freeman, David J. (2000); McKee, Fraser (2014); http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Navy_MLs.php
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