High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS Kapuskasing (J326) was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. She was commissioned on August 17, 1944, and wore pennant J326 until she was decommissioned in March 1946. In 1949, she was recommissioned, and served with the Department of Mines under pennant 171 as a hydrographic survey ship until paid off in 1972. The ship was returned to the navy in 1972. On October 3, 1978, she was taken to sea and sunk as a naval target.