HMCS Qu'Appelle (DDE 264)

HMCS Qu'Appelle (DDE 264) at Pearl Harbor, in 1990
Career (Canada)
Namesake:	[[Qu'Appelle River and more so the Qu'Appelle Valley. Qu'Appelle is French for "who calls?" based on the historical and long standing belief of a young male Native Indian, lost in the fog on Katepwa Lake, Saskatchewan, calling out for his young female wife to find his way home.]]
Builder:	Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., Lauzon
Laid down:	14 January 1960
Launched:	2 May 1962
Commissioned:	14 September 1963
Decommissioned:	28 March 1994
Refit:	1982 (DELEX)
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1944, Normandy 1944, Biscay 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Mackenzie-class destroyer
Displacement:	2880 tonnes full load
Length:	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam:	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × English-Electric geared steam turbines 2 × Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp
Speed:	28 kn (51.9 km/h)
Complement:	228 regular, 170-210 training
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-11 hull mounted active search sonar
Electronic warfare and decoys:	1 × DAU (replaced by SRD 501) high frequency direction finder 1 × WLR 1C radar analyzer 1 × UPD 501 radar detector
Armament:	1 × 3"/50 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 launcher

HMCS Qu'Appelle (DDE 264) was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. The ship's insignia and logo was the head of a fox facing forward centered in a diagonal line double white with a red center sqiggley line from the top left to bottom right. The moniker of the ship was "Follow the Fox".

She is the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Qu'Appelle.

Qu'Appelle was laid down on 14 January 1960 at Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., Lauzon and launched on 2 May 1962. She was commissioned into the RCN on 14 September 1963.

She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and served largely as a training ship with the RCN and later in the CF under Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC). She underwent the Destroyer Life Extension Project (DELEX) in 1982.

She was decommissioned from Maritime Command on 13 March 1992.

Ship's Bell

The Christening Bells Project at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum includes information from the ship's bell of HMCS Qu'Appelle (2nd) 1963 - 1994, which was used for baptism of babies onboard ship 1964 - 1981. The bell is currently held by the CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum, Esquimalt, British Columbia^[1]

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