HMCS Fraser (DDH 233)

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HMCS Fraser (DDH 233) was a St. Laurent class destroyer escort designed and built for the Royal Canadian Navy. It is the second ship to bear this name. It is currenty docked in the port of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, awaiting to be sank off the coast of Nova Scoita.

[edit] General characteristics

  • Length: 111.56 m
  • Beam: 12.80 m
  • Draft: 3.96 m
  • Displacement: 2,800 tons full load
  • Power plant:
  • 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
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