HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206)
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Forces Maritime Command |
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| Namesake: | Saguenay River |
| Builder: | Halifax Shipyards, Halifax |
| Laid down: | 4 April 1951 |
| Launched: | 30 July 1953 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1990 |
| Reclassified: | 14 May 1965 (as DDH) |
| Motto: | A 1'erte (Ready to act) |
| Fate: | Sold in 1990 and scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. |
| Badge: | Blazon Sable, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, surmounted by an Indian's head facing sinister and couped at the shoulder proper having a fillet gules about the temples, depending there from, tips downward, four feathers of the second pied of the last, and pendant from the ear an annulet silver. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | St. Laurent class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
As DDE: 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load)[1] As DDH: 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[2] |
| Length: | 371 feet (113.1 m) |
| Beam: | 42 feet (12.8 m) |
| Draught: |
As DDE: 13 feet (4.0 m)[3] As DDH:14 feet (4.3 m)[4] |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[5] |
| Range: | 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)[6] |
| Complement: |
As DDE: 249 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
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| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: |
As DDE: noneAs DDH:
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HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206) was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956-1990.
She was commissioned into the RCN on 15 December 1956 and initially carried the pennant number DDE 206 as a destroyer escort. She underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 206 on 14 May 1965.
Saguenay was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and completed this refit on 23 May 1980.
She was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 26 June 1990.
She was sold in 1990 to the Artificial Reef Society of Nova Scotia which scuttled her as a diving attraction in Lunenburg Bay, off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
[edit] Commanding Officers
- Cdr. R.I. Clayton 1987-1990
[edit] Assignments
- Third Escort Squadrom 1953-1959 - Halifax
- Second Escort Squadron 1959-1965 - Esquimalt
- First Escort Squadron 1965-1971
- Fifth Escort Squadron 1971-1990
[edit] References
- ^ These were "officially revised figures" quoted in Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
Conways says 2000 tons standard displacement, 2600 deep load.
Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79 says 2390 tons displacement, 2900 full load. - ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
- ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
- ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
- ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
- ^ Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79
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