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RESTIGOUCHE destroyer escorts (1958-1959)


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Chaudiere 1970

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Restigouche DDE257   Canadian Vickers, Montreal 17.7.1953 22.11.1954 7.6.1958 paid off 8.1994, artificial reef 2001
Chaudiere DDE235   Halifax SY 30.7.1953 13.11.1957 14.11.1959 paid off 5.1974, deleted 1988
Gatineau DDE236   Davie SB, Lauzon 30.4.1953 3.6.1957 17.2.1959 paid off 5.1996, BU
St. Croix DDE256   Marine Industries, Sorel 15.10.1954 17.11.1957 4.10.1958 paid off 11.1974, harbour service 1979
Kootenay DDE258   Burrard, North Vancouver 21.8.1952 15.6.1954 7.3.1959 paid off 11.1995, artificial reef 2001
Terra Nova DDE259   Victoria Machinery Depot 11.6.1953 21.6.1955 6.6.1959 paid off 7.1997, BU
Columbia DDE260   Burrard, North Vancouver 11.6.1952 1.11.1956 7.11.1959 paid off 2.1974, harbour TS 1974


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2000
Displacement full, t

2600
Length, m

111.6 wl 113.1 oa
Breadth, m

12.8
Draught, m

4.20
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 sets English Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.

30000
Max speed, kts

28
Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts)

4570(12)
Armament

1 x 2 - 76/70 Mk 6, 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Boffin, 2 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASW RL
Electronic equipmentSPS-10, SPS-12, SPG-48, Sperry Mk II radars, SQS-501, SQS-502, SQS-503, SQS-10/11 sonars
Complement

290


Graphics


<i>Chaudiere </i>1970
Chaudiere 1970
<i>Terra Nova </i>1979
Terra Nova 1979


Project history

Developed from the original St. Laurent class and ordered in 1952. On the same hull it was possible to mount the British twin 76mm/70 Mk 6 as designed for the previous class, but a USN-pattern twin 76mm/50 Mk 22 was retained aft.

Modernizations

1964, St. Croix; 1968, Terra Nova; 1971, Gatineau; 1972, Restigouche, Kootenay: new lattice foremast; - 1 x 2 - 76/50, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL; + 1 x 8 ASROC ASuM (16 RUR-5), SQS-505 VDS sonar, 1 x 4 Bofors flare rocket launcher

1982, Gatineau; 1983, Kootenay; 1984, Terra Nova; 1985, Restigouche: - 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL, SPS-12 radar, SQS-502 sonar, 1 x 4 Bofors flare rocket launcher; + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SPS-503 radar, CANEWS, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 4 SRBOC Mk 36 decoy launchers

1990, Terra Nova; 1991, Restigouche: - 1 x 8 ASROC ASuM; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 1 - 40/60 Boffin, 1 x 6 -20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, Mk 90 radar

Naval service

No significant events.