HMCS Skeena (DDH 207)
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Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Forces Maritime Command |
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Namesake: | Skeena River |
Builder: | Burrard Yarrows, Vancouver |
Laid down: | 1 June 1951 |
Launched: | 19 August 1952 |
Commissioned: | 30 March 1957 |
Decommissioned: | 1 November 1993 |
Reclassified: | 14 August 1965 (as DDH) |
Fate: | Scrapped in 1996. |
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 (53 km/h)[5] |
Range: | 4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)[6] |
Complement: |
As DDE: 249 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
As DDE:
As DDH:
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Electronic warfare and decoys: |
As DDE:
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Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: |
As DDE: noneAs DDH:
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HMCS Skeena (DDH 207) was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957-1993.
She was commissioned into the RCN on 30 March 1957 and initially carried the pennant number DDE 207 as a destroyer escort. She underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 207 on 14 August 1965.
Skeena was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and completed this refit on 20 November 1981.
She was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 1 November 1993.
She was sold in 1994 and scrapped in 1996.
[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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