HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206)

For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Saguenay.
Career (Canada) Royal Canadian Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy
Namesake: Saguenay River
Builder: Halifax Shipyards Ltd., 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)
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1939-42
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 ft (113.1 m)
Beam: 42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught:

As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[3]

As DDH:14 ft (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

As DDH: 213 plus 20 aircrew
Sensors and
processing systems:

As DDE:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-10a hull mounted active search and attack sonar "Scanner"
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiling sonar "Tracer"
  • 1 x Type 170 high frequency attack sonar "Attacker"
  • 1 x SQS 503 hull mounted search sonar "Searcher"
  • 1 x UQC-1B underwater telephone "Gertrude"
  • 1 x GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 2 on-mount SPG-48 directors)

As DDH:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x URN 20 TACAN radar
  • 1 x SQS-10a hull mounted active search and attack sonar "Scanner"
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiling sonar "Tracer"
  • 1 x Type 170 high frequency attack sonar "Attacker"
  • 1 x SQS 503 hull mounted search sonar "Searcher"
  • 1 x UQC-1B underwater telephone "Gertrude"
  • 1 x SQS-504 VDS, medium frequency active search "Diver"(except 233 after 1986)
  • 1 x GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 1 on-mount SPG-48 director)
Electronic warfare
and decoys:

As DDE:

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

As DDH:

  • 1 x WLR 1C radar warning
  • 1 x UPD 501 radar detection
  • 1 x SRD 501 HF/DF
Armament:

As DDE:

  • 2 x 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mounts guns
  • 2 x 40mm "Boffin" single mount guns
  • 2 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 x single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes

As DDH:

  • 1 x 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount gun
  • 1 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar
  • 2 x triple Mk.32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:

As DDE:

none

As DDH:

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 is the second vessel in her class and the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Saguenay.

Saguenay was laid down on 4 April 1951 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 30 July 1953. She was commissioned into the RCN on 15 December 1956 and assigned pennant number 206.

Saguenay underwent conversion from a destroyer escort (DDE) to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed on 14 May 1965. She was subsequently selected by the Canadian Forces for the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) project and completed this refit on 23 May 1980.

Saguenay was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 26 June 1990.

She was sold to the South Shore Marine Park Society which scuttled her in 1994 as an artificial reef in Lunenburg Bay, off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Commanding officers

Assignments

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
  3. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
  4. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
  5. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
  6. ^ Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79
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