HMCS Kootenay (H75)
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.jpg/300px-HMS_Decoy_(H75).jpg) HMCS Kootenay in former guise as Decoy in RN service |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Class and type: | D class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Decoy |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Southampton |
| Laid down: | 25 June 1931 |
| Launched: | 7 June 1932 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1933 |
| Out of service: | Transferred to RCN 12 April 1943 |
| Renamed: | HMCS Kootenay (on transfer) |
| Career (Canada) |  |
| Name: | HMCS Kootenay |
| Recommissioned: | 12 April 1943 (as HMCS Kootenay) |
| Decommissioned: | 26 October 1945 |
| Fate: | Broken up in January 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,375 tons deep load: originally 1,865 tons later 2,040 tons |
| Length: | 317 ft 9 in (96.9 m) perpendicular to perpendicular 329 ft (100 m) overall |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) later 13 ft (4.0 m) to 13 ft 4 in (4.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 36,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | carried 461-473 tons of fuel oil |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Armament: | original: 4 x 4.7 in /45 QF Mk IX (4 x 1) 1 x 3 in high angle gun 8 x 21 in torpedo tubes (2 x 4) (Mk XI torpedoes) as escort destroyer: 3 x 4.7 in /45 QF Mk IX (3 x 1) 6 x 20 mm 4 x 21 in torpedo tubes (1 x 4) Hedgehog 125 x depth charge typical armament for this class |
| Armour: | 3in side (amidships) 2¼-1½in side (bows) 2in side (stern) 1in upper decks (amidships) 1in deck over rudder |
| Motto: | We are as one |
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| Badge: | Blazon Argent, three cotises in bend wavy azure, over all a crescent sable debruised by an Indian fish spear-head gules, bound around the hilt with thongs argent |
HMCS Kootenay (H75) was a D-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1943-1945. She was laid down in 1931 for the Royal Navy as HMS Decoy. In 1943, she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, being recommissioned in April of that year as an escort destroyer.[1] In Canadian service she was renamed Kootenay; she was the first ship to bear this name. She was scrapped in January 1946.[2]
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[edit] Service
On 22 May 1943 Kootenay, commanded by A/Lt.Cdr. D.L. Dyer (RCN), picked up 19 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Sandanger, which had been torpedoed and sunk on 12 May by the German VIIC class U-boat U-221 in the North Atlantic.[3]
On 7 July 1944, Kootenay, together with the destroyer Ottawa and the corvette Statice depth-charged and sank the German VIIC class U-boat U-678 in the English Channel south-west of Brighton.[4] On 18 August Kootenay, now commanded by A/Lt.Cdr. W.H. Willson (RCN), together with the destroyers Ottawa and Chaudiere, depth-charged and sank the German VIIC class U-boat U-621 in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle.[5] Two days later on 20 August, the same ships depth-charged and sank the German VIIC class U-boat U-984 in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest.[6]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946 p38.
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946 p38.
- ^ .HMCS Kootenay
- ^ HMCS Kootenay
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- ^ HMCS Kootenay
[edit] References
- Chesnau, Roger and Gardner, Robert (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946. Conway Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
[edit] See also
- HMS Decoy (H75)
- See HMCS Kootenay for other ships of the same name.
[edit] External links
- R.Smg. Argonauta, by by Admiral (ret) Attilio Duilio Ranieri, Italian Navy
- Italian Submarines Lost in World War II
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