HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258)

For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Kootenay.

HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258) at Pearl Harbor in 1986
History
Canada
NameKootenay
NamesakeKootenay River
BuilderBurrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver
Laid down21 August 1952
Launched15 June 1954
Commissioned7 March 1959
Decommissioned18 December 1995
Refit
  • 7 January 1972 (IRE)
  • 21 October 1983 (DELEX)
MottoWe are as one[1]
Honours and
awards
  • Atlantic 1943–1945
  • Normandy 1944
  • English Channel 1944
  • Biscay 1944[1]
FateSunk as an artificial reef off Mexico in 2001.
BadgeArgent, three cotises in bend wavy azure, over all a crescent sable debruised by an Indian fish spear-head gules, bound around the hilt with thongs argent[1]
General characteristics (As built)
Class and typeRestigouche-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 2,000 tonnes (2,000 long tons) standard
  • 2,500 t (2,500 long tons) at deep load
Length
  • 366 ft (111.6 m) (waterline)
  • 371 ft (113.1 m) (overall)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught
  • 13.17 ft (4.0 m) normal
  • 14 ft (4.3 m) deep load
Propulsion
Speed28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km; 5,470 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement249
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
& decoys		1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)
Armament
  • 1 × 3-inch/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 × 3-inch/50 Mk.22 FMC twin mount aft
  • 2 × Limbo Mk 10 3-barrelled ASW mortars
  • 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" homing torpedo launchers (though never carried torpedoes for them)[2]
  • 1 × 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

HMCS Kootenay was a Restigouche-class destroyer escort that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from 1959 until 1996. She was the fifth ship in her class and the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Kootenay. The ship suffered two serious incidents in her career: a 1969 explosion and ensuing fire that killed nine, and a 1989 collision that required the complete replacement of her bow. Following her service, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef.

  1. ^ a b c Arbuckle, p. 54
  2. ^ The Postwar Naval Revolution page 161 says of the St. Laurent class: "As in the case of the Type 12, the design included provision for long-range homing torpedoes (in this case BIDDER [Mk20E] or the UK Mark 35). They were never fitted however."