HMCS Fraser (DDH 233)

HMCS Fraser (DDH 233) was a St. Laurent class destroyer escort designed and built for the Royal Canadian Navy. It is the second boat to bear this name.

[edit] General characteristics

Length: 111.56 m
Beam: 12.80 m
Draft: 3.96 m
Displacement: 2,800 tons full load
Power plant:
- 2 shaft
- 2 Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers
- 2 English Electric geared turbines, 30,000 shp 28 knots
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Aircraft: 1 CH-124 Sea King helicopter
Complement: 249 (213 + 20 aircrew after DDH modification)
Armament:
- 2 3"/50 Mk. 33 FMC twin mounts
- 2 40 mm "Boffin" single
- 2 Mk. NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
- 2 single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes

After DDH modification:

- 1 3"/50 Mk. 33 FMC twin mount
- 1 Mk. NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar
- 2 triple Mk. 32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes.
Radar:
- SPS-12 air search
- SPS-10B surface search
- Sperry Mk.2 navigation
- Upgraded with URN 20 TACAN
- Upgraded with Sperry Mk.127E navigation
Sonar:
- SQS-10 hull mounted active search and attack sonar
- SQS-501 bottom profiling sonar
- SQS-502 Limbo mortar control sonar
- UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone.
- Upgraded with a SQS-504 VDS