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Restigouche Class – DDE

HMCS Restigouche (D 257)

Ships

Pennant

Name

Commissioning Date

IRE

DELEX

 

DDE 235

HMCS Chaudiere

November 14, 1959

-

-

 

DDE 236

HMCS Gatineau

February 17, 1956

1971

1982

 

DDE 256

HMCS St. Croix

October 4, 1958

-

-

 

DDE 257

HMCS Restigouche

June 7, 1958

1972

1985

 

DDE 258

HMCS Kootenay

March 7, 1959

1972

1983

 

DDE 259

HMCS Terra Nova

June 6, 1959

1968

1984

 

DDE 260

HMCS Columbia

November 7, 1959

-

-

 

 

General Information:

(for specific information & history click on the ship’s name, above)

Technical characteristics (as built):

Length: 111,56 meters

Beam: 12,80 meters

Draft: 4,27 meters

Displacement: 2800 tons (full load)

Propulsion: 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 2 English Electric geared turbines;

                   2 shafts; 2 propellers; 30000 shp;

Speed: 28 knots, max.

Crew: 249

Aviation/Hangar: none

IRE & DELEX configuration:

Length: 113,08 meters

Displacement: 2900 tons (full load)

Crew: 214

 

Armament:

 

as built:

1  Vickers Mk.6 3”/70 twin mount forward;

1  FMC Mk.33 3”/50 twin mount aft;

2  Limbo Mk.NC 10 ASW mortars;

2  Mk.2 single ‘K-gun’ launchers with homing torpedoes;

 

 

Improved Restigouche modification (IRE) & Destroyer Life Time Extension refit (DELEX) configuration:

1  Vickers Mk.6 3”/70 twin mount forward;

1  Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher;

1  Limbo Mk.NC 10 ASW mortar;

2  Mk.32 triple torpedo launcher (Mk.46 Mod.5 torpedoes);

 

 

Persian Gulf duty (D 257 & 259 only)

1  Vickers Mk.6 3”/70 twin mount forward;

2  Harpoon quad SSM launchers;

1  Phalanx 20mm CIWS;

2 40mm/60 Bofors guns;

2  Mk.32 triple torpedo launcher (Mk.46 Mod.5 torpedoes);

 

original configuration

Improved Restigouche configuration

 

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