Vessel Registration Forms

The forms are available from the Vessel Registration Office (Ottawa), any Port of Registry, or online, from Transport Canada's Forms Catalogue*.

*These online forms are available in PDF format only.

The following documents are available for downloading or viewing:

• No. 84-0044
  Form 1 - Application for Registry (PDF Version, 48 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 13 seconds.

• No. 84-0040
  Form 2 - Builder's Certificate for First Title (PDF Version, 50 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 14 seconds.

• No. 84-0002
  Form 3 - Declaration of Ownership (PDF Version, 100 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 28 seconds.

• No. 84-0015
  Form 6 - Bill of Sale (PDF Version, 48 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 13 seconds.

• No. 84-0019E
  Form 7 - Mortgage (PDF Version, 35 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 9 seconds.

• No. 84-0027
  Form 8 - Declaration of Transmission (PDF Version, 56 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 15 seconds.

• No. 84-0149
  Form 9 - Application for Provisional Certificate of Registry (PDF Version, 50 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 14 seconds.

• No. 84-0042
  Form 13 – Application for Change of Name of Ship and/or Transfer of Port of Registry (PDF Version, 45 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 12 seconds.

• No. 84-0035
  Form 14 - Appointment of Authorized Representative (PDF Version, 35 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 9 seconds.

• No. 84-0066
  Form 15 – Vessel Under Construction (PDF Version, 39 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 11 seconds.

• No. 84-0067
  Form 16 - Builder's Mortgage (PDF Version, 50 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 14 seconds.

• No. 84-0046
  Form 17 - Application for the Registration of a Government Ship, under The Canada Shipping Act, 2001, Subsection 46 (3) (PDF Version, 37 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 10 seconds.

• No. 84-0170
  Form 18 - Application for Bareboat Charter Registry (PDF Version, 53 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 15 seconds.

• No. 85-0405
  Form 4A - Simplified Method of Tonnage Measurement (PDF Version, 38 KB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 10 seconds.

• No. 85-0470
  Form 4B – Tonnage Measurement of a Simple Multihull Vessel (PDF Version, 1.26 MB)
  Download time (28.8 kbps): 6 minutes and 7 seconds

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