HMCS Huron (DDH 281)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | mid 1960s |
| Laid down: | June 1, 1969 |
| Launched: | April 9, 1971 |
| Commissioned: | December 16, 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | March 31, 2005 (In reserve) |
| Fate: | Laid up in CFB Esquimalt |
| Struck: | N/A |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4700 tons or 5100 tons full loaded |
| Length: | 129 metres |
| Beam: | 15 metres |
| Draught: | 4.7 metres |
| Propulsion: | two shafts, two Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 gas turbines (37 megawatts at the shaft), two Allison 570-KF gas turbines (5.6 megawatts at the shaft) |
| Speed: | 29 knots or 54 km/h |
| Range: | 4500 nautical miles |
| Complement: | 285 |
| Armament: | 1 29-cell VLS (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA), 1 76 mm/62 OTO Melara (Super Rapid) DP, 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 1 20 mm Close-In Weapons Systems, 2 triple Mark-46 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes |
| Aircraft: | 2 CH-124 Sea King helicopters |
| Motto: | Ready the Brave |
| Badge: | Blazon Or, nicotine bloom gules, seedpod vert, and stamens or |
| Colours: | Gold and crimson |
| Battle Honours: | Arctic, 1943-1945; English Channel, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Korea, 1951-1953. |
HMCS Huron (DDG 281) was an Iroquois-class destroyer of the Canadian Navy, decommissioned in 2005. Huron (1) was a member of the original Tribal class of destroyers. Commissioned in July 1943, she wore pennants G24 and then 216 until she was paid off in April 1963.
Huron (II) is a member of the Tribal class of Helicopter carrying destroyers, and wearing pennant 281, was commissioned in December 1972. She was built at the Marine Industries, Sorel Quebec. The ship's main role was anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) during the Cold War and played a role during the Gulf War in 1991. It was also sent to Adriatic Sea in 1993. In 1999, the ship was used to stop illegal migration into Canada. [1]
It was retro-fitted in 1994 for TRUMP (Tribal-class Update and Modernization Program) configuration and is now in reserve mode awaiting disposal. On November 16, 2006, it was announced that the ship will be sunk during target practice in May 2007, pending environmental approval [2] - she will be placed a hundred kilometers out into the Pacific and sunk.
The ship's crest consists of a nicotine bloom, which pays tribute to the Huron peoples who were known for their tobacco use.
See HMCS Huron for other ships of this name.
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List of ships of the Canadian Navy |
