HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257)

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For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Restigouche.
Career (Canada) Canadian Blue Ensign Royal Canadian Navy
Naval flag of Canada Canadian Forces Maritime Command
Namesake: Restigouche River
Builder: Canadian Vickers, Montreal
Laid down: 15 July 1953
Launched: 22 November 1954
Commissioned: 7 June 1958
Decommissioned: 31 August 1994
Fate: Sunk off Mexico in 2001 as an artificial reef.
Badge: Blazon Or, the head of a five pronged fish-spear erect, azure.
General characteristics
Class and type: Restigouche class destroyer
Displacement:

As built: 2800 tons (deep load)

After IRE: 2900 tons (deep load)
Length: As built: 366 feet (111.6 m)
After IRE: 371 feet (113.1 m)
Beam: 42 feet (12.8 m)
Draught: 14 feet (4.3 m)
Propulsion: 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp
Speed: 28 knots (51.9 km/h)
Range: 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)
Complement:

As built: 249

After IRE/DELEX: 214
Sensors and
processing systems:

As built:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 x SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 x SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward
  • GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with on-mount SPG-48 director) aft

After IRE:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 x SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 x SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x AQA-5 Jezebel passive tracer sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward

After DELEX:

  • 1 x Marconi SPS 502 air search radar
  • 1 x Raytheon SPS 10D surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.127 E navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-505 hull sonar
  • 1 x SQS 505 VDS sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-515 director forward
Electronic warfare
and decoys:

As built:

  • 1 x DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)

After IRE:

  • 1 x ULQ-6 jammer
  • 1 x WLR-1C radar analyzer
  • 1 x UPD-501 radar detector
  • 1 x SRD-501 HF/DF

After DELEX:

  • 1 x CANEWS
  • 1 x ULQ-6 jammer
Armament:

As built:

  • 1 x 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 x 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft
  • 2 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 x single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes
  • 1 x 103mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

After IRE/DELEX:

  • 1 x 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 x Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher
  • 1 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 x Mk.32 triple torpedo launchers firing Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carried: none

HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1958-1994.

She was the lead ship of her class, having been commissioned into the RCN on 7 June 1958 carrying the pennant number DDE 257 as a destroyer escort.

Restigouche was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) program and completed this refit in 1972. She was also selected as one of 10 destroyers in the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and completed this refit on 29 November 1985.

Restigouche was selected to participate as part of the Canadian Forces contribution in the Gulf War in 1991. She was refitted at Esquimalt, British Columbia; however the war finished before her refit was completed. She had her Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher and her Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars removed and was fitted with 8 X Harpoon anti-ship missles and a (CIWS) Close In Weapons System.

Restigouche did not participate in the Gulf War in 1991; however, the ship did participate in a Multinational Interception Force (MIF) in the Northern Red Sea in 1992. During the Red Sea deployment Restigouche completed an Eastbound circumnavigation of the globe sailing from Esquimalt to Esquimalt via the Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Atlantic Ocean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

She was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 31 August 1994.

She was sunk as an artificial reef off Acapulco, Mexico in 2001.

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