HMCS Chaudiere (DDE 235)

For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Chaudiere.
Career (Canada)
Namesake: Chaudiere River
Builder: Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax
Laid down: 30 July 1953
Launched: 13 November 1957
Commissioned: 14 November 1959
Decommissioned: 23 May 1974
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1944, Normandy 1944, Biscay 1944
Fate: Sunk as artificial reef off British Columbia in 1992.
General characteristics
Class and type:Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement:2800 t (deep load)
Length:366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam:42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught:14 ft (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:249
Sensors and
processing systems:		1 × SPS-12 air search radar

1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
1 × SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
1 × SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
1 × SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
1 × Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward

  • 1 × GUNAR Mk.64 GFCS with on-mount SPG-48 director aft
Electronic warfare
and decoys:		1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)
Armament:1 × 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward

1 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft
2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes

1 × 103mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

HMCS Chaudiere was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1974. She was named for the Chaudiere River. Chaudiere was the second vessel in her class and is the second Canadian naval unit to bear this name.

She was laid down on 30 July 1953 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 13 November 1957. She was commissioned into the RCN on 14 November 1959 carrying the pennant number 235.[1]

Service history

After serving out of Halifax for 8 years, Chaudiere sailed for the west coast on 2 October 1967 and remained as part of the Pacific Fleet until 1970. That year she was reduced to a training role due to manpower shortages in the Royal Canadian Navy. Chaudiere was not selected Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and her selection for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) was cut due to economic reasons.[2] She was instead decommissioned from active service in the CF on 23 May 1974.

She was placed in Category C reserve and in 1988 she reverted to a parts hulk, with part of her bow being used in 1989 to repair her sistership HMCS Kootenay.[3]

She was sunk as an artificial reef in Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia on 5 December 1992.[2]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ "HMCS Chaudiere (2nd)". readyayeready.com. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2003). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-2002. Vanwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1551250721.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Navy of Yesterday & Today: Restigouche Class". hazegrey.org. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
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